The Isgar Family

The Isgar Family were emmigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the mid-18th century. Miklos Isgar, father of the Isgar family quickly set up shop as a shoe-shine and cobbler shop in 1875, but quickly expanded his service to tailoring as well. After years of successful business, Miklos left the business to his son, Istvan "Izzie" Isgar. Under Izzie's direction, the family business branched out, quickly becoming a neighborhood institution of sorts.

By 1925, when Janos, Istvan's second son took over the business, the Isgar family had become a "mover-and-shaker" in South Blythville and Houldenbank. Through the hardship of the Great Depression the Isgar family managed to remain solvent, using their family run businesses to help maintain some semblance of an economy in their sphere of influence.

By the advent of the Second World War, the Isgar family had become a strong supporter of the war, managing two munitions plants in Malton that gave the RAF bombs to launch against the NAZI threat.

During the course of the war, Janos' two sons both died serving the armed forces of Britain, leaving his daughter Zsofia as sole inheritor of the family fortunes and businesses. In 1947 Zsofia was married to Abulurd Blyth, eldest son of the the Blyth Family.

Throughout the course of her marriage to Abulurd Blyth, Zsofia convinced her husband to name several of the Blyth family undertakings after her family, as a heritage to her and her children. These remnants of the Isgar family's influence continue in the buildings and squares that carry their names. They are: Isgar Square, the Isgar Museum, Isgar Towers.