Rev John Causse, his "Caussin" cousins and their "Caussin Manor", further reveal to us yet another "greek part" of the Cochini history and oblige us both to continue our Odyssey in this sea of family mysteries and to also break our previous limit of not going beyond 1827 at this stage:
The well known "Κιοσσέ-Σαχίνη" (Sahin=fast, turkish) family is said (ΗΛΙΟΣ Εγκυκλοπαίδεια) to have an Antonio Kiosse (=Causse), 1730(approx) to 1771 as head. His son Dimitrio(1759-1808), member of Hydra's committee of elders (προεστοί), was arrested by the Ottomans in 1808 along with his three sons, first born Antonio, Dimitri and Giorgio. Of the four only Giorgio (1789-1864) remained on record thereafter:
Giorgio, as the story goes, learned italian and french while attending school at Hydra and Corfu. He was resting in Sicily however when the 1821 independence struggle began, a struggle he immediately joined bringing his own fighting ship along: "Miltiades".Participating in all naval actions thereafter, Giorgio was next appointed captain of the "national frigate Hydra"-made in USA-and by 1829 he was put in charge of the greek fleet of the Aegean Sea based in Syros island, was next appointed second admiral in 1833 and "aid de camps" of King Otto of Greece later on etc.
Some minor details of George Causse cv are ommited by the good Encyclopedia:
In 1825 he was appointed war minister of the provisional greek government along with Tsamados and Santarosa. He was still honouring the "russian" flag of the family fleet then while Greece was already in a civil war.
In 1831, 16th July, at the Poros central base of the greek fleet, admiral Giorgio Causse revolted, along side Miaoulis and Mavrogordatos, against governor Capodistria-shortly before Capodistira's murder later on in the year. The action taken against them on the 23rd by russian admiral Ricord and commanders Lyons(brit) and Lalande(french), supposedly protecting the greek Governor and Nation then, was not sufficient to prevent the destruction of the greek fleet, including one american made frigate, by the revolutionaries who set afire all greek ships anchored there.
As later reported by captain Valiant of the "Grenadier", greek captain Lazaros "Orlov"-a Cochin, possibly the same as "Musiu", Yanni's brother-of one of two greek briggs under Ricord, "arrogantly" insisted they should take immediate action and finish, once and for all, with Miaoulis. That's how action began but evidently not "decisive" enough.
The family differences that first appeared in 1826 (when the "Constitution" having left the States October 29, 1824 under the command of Captain Thomas Macdonough, was still stationed "west" of the action, in Italy waiting new orders) become evident in 1831.
They'll climax in Zante, under british rule in 1835, while the rest of Modern Greece is then "free" under "wise" King Otto, his mentor-tutor Mr Lyons, their "aide de camp M.George Causse" etc etc...