Paul (Achilles) Constantaras

Notes:

Attended Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire USA

He suffered from metal illness.

Died:
His Athens death certificate.

Notes:

Residence: at DOD, 17, Academias St, Athens.

Died:
His Athens death certificate.

Achilles married Athena (Cosi) Agelasto on 24 Oct 1927 in Athens, Attica, Greece. Athena (daughter of Cozis (Stephanos) Agelasto and Maria (Nicolas) Caridia) was born on 20 Jul 1907 in Athens, Attica, Greece; died on 30 Oct 1989 in 2 Lampsakou St, Athens, Attica, Greece; was buried in First Cemetery of Athens, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After her first husband's death, she managed the jewelry business.

After her mother moved to Italy, she was raised by a German-speaking governess.

Buried:
Tombstone is marked: Athena C. Vletides

Lambro married Sophia Tsorpatsoglu. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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C. Agelasto was among the ten students from Broughton High School awarded in science and art examinations, first stage, 2nd class (Manchester Times, 22 Jun 1878; Manchester Guardian, 24 Jun 1878, p 8).

Residence, Marseille, France: 1866-1870, boulevard Longchamp 54; 1878, Mancheser, England.

An Agelasto played cricket for Broughton High School (Manchester Guardian, 10 Jun 1878, p 3; 4 Jul 1878, p 6).

K. S. Agelastos was a lampbearer for the Sepulcher, the Greek Church of Manchester.

Bombay Commercial Directory lists Fachiri, John & Co. Apollo Street, export and import merchants. PARTNER – J. Fachiri. ASSTS. – C. Agelasto, signs per pro.; M.A. Convela and M.C. Michailidi.

A hereditary title certificate for his brother Alexander lists Constantine as his sole male sibling at the time of his death, issued Mayor of Athens, 4 Jun 1923.

Petros Vletides has a portrait of Cozis Stephen Agelasto.

He lost money gambling, according to family legend

Mr. C. Agelasto took passage from Suez (The Times of India, 5 Apr 1887).

J. Fachiri per C Agelasto took a 50 Ra. annual subscription to the St. Georges Hospital Nursing Fund (The Times of India, 20 Apr 1895).

Christened:
God-parents: Stephanos Schilizzi (paternal guardian); at home; entry 44(15)/052; priest: Vasilios Moros.

Cozis married Maria (Nicolas) Caridia on 12 Sep 1891 in Athens, Attica, Greece. Maria (daughter of Nicolas Caridia and Marietta Pitsipio) was born on 08 May 1872 in London, England UK; was christened on 20 Jul 1872 in Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After the birth of her daughter, she ran off to Italy with an Italian soldier, who may have fathered a child with her.

Christened:
God-parent: Despina L. Ziffo.

Name:
also Carydia

Birth:
Birth notice appeared in The Pall Mall Gazette (London) 15 May 1872.

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Residence: Constantinople bef 1857; 1857 Syros; 1860, 1861, 1863, 1871, 1 Belmont Terrace, Salford, Manchester, England. 1866, 54 Boulevard Longchamp, Marseille, a businessman, at the time of his daughter Julia’s birth. 1876: Kersal Mount, 4 Vine St, Broughton [listed as both Higher and Lower].

Occupation: Mediterranean shipping merchant. 1862, 1863, S.C. Agelasto; 1867, 36 Cooper Street, Manchester; 1 Jan 1870, S.C. Agelasto operated with Stephen C Agelasto in Manchester, John A. Ralli in London and George Rizo & H Stazati Psycha in Calcutta; 1876, merchant with A. Agelasto & Co.; 1877-78, with Agelasto & Co., merchants, 63 George St., Manchester (company listing 1883, 1886, 1895). After Stephen Cosi's death the 1903 city directory lists Agelasto & Co, 63 George St., Manchester, "East Indies, all kinds of cotton goods." Also in Manchester the same year, there was a similar business with a slightly different name: A Agelasto & Co, run by John Emmanuel Agelasto, Aubonne House, 491 Bury New Road. Agelasto & Co. was still in business in 1909-1911, at 78 George St., Manchester, its directory listing including "East Indies, grey & white cotton goods."


Naturalization: Stephen Cosi Agelasto took British citizenship on 27 Oct 1864. He said on his Oct 1864 application for naturalization: "in business in the City of Manchester as a merchant and shipper of Manchester and other manufactured goods to India and other foreign markets." Gives his birth year as 1833 "born of Greek parents and registered as a Greek subject at the Island of Syra in the Archipelago and am now of the age of thirty one years or thereabouts." He affirms he has continually resided in Manchester for the past 4 years, ie, 1860-1864.

In the last quarter of 1860, when several Greek firms in the Levant cotton trade failed, his company's "liabilities are computed at about £60,000, but the liquidation, it is thought, will not be very unfavourable" (Daily News [London] 27 Nov 1860; The Observer, 2 Dec 1860, p 5)." The bankruptcy resulted in the payout to creditors of 14s in the pound (Daily News [London] 8 Dec 1860). He also filed for bankruptcy on 14 Aug 1862 in co-partnership with Alexander Matza [Matsas, his father in law) and Ralli Antoniadi (a Constantinople firm of Matza & Antoniadi) - bankruptcy discharged 5 Nov 1862 (London Gazette 19 Aug 1862, copied in North Wales Chronicle 23 Aug 1862; The Times (London) 20 Aug 1862). Had another firm S. C. Agelasto (1862).

His mother was a Ralli. An Agelasto living in Liverpool/Manchester in the mid 19th Century was most likely involved in one of the Ralli companies, Ralli & Agelasto, doing business in Constantinople, Trebizond, Tabriz and Liverpool, 1837-71. See chart in Chapman, p. 156.

He attended secondary school in Marseille, 1849 and had earlier lived in Constantinople.

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Agelasto (attired as gentilhomme Polonais & chatelaine du moyen age, respectively), along with Mr. Agelasto (British naval officer) and Miss Agelasto (Smyrna lady), attended a grand fancy dress ball at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall given by S. Georgala, Esq., of the firm of H. Georgala & Co., Greek general merchants (Liverpool Mercury, 30 Dec 1871).

10 Apr 1857: Stephanos K [Constantine], 25, unmarried, born Constantinople, merchant, swore allegiance to the government at town hall, Ermoupolis.

Kersal Mount, Vine Street, Higher Broughton, Manchester, was advertised to be let, "immediate possession...late occupied by T. Agelasto, Esq: contains three entertaining rooms, six bedrooms, servants' rooms, with all needful offices" (Manchester Guardian, 23 Feb 1878).

Stephanos Agelastos gave two chandeliers on each side of the church to the Greek Church of Manchester, 1861.

St. Agelastos is listed as a warden for the Greek Church of Manchester, 1869-1870, 1874-1875 & 1875-1876.

UK Naturalisation: Stephen Agelasto, Greece, 27 Oct 1864; certificate 4543

Philanthropy: Stephen Agelasto is listed in 1872 among the donors to the Chios Hospital according to unpublished research by Demetrios Melachrinoudis. In 1867 Stephen Agelasto & Son donated 250 Francs to Chios Schools; and Stephen Agelasto gave 500 Francs to the Chios Hospital.

Etienne Agelasto, 34, merchant, boulevard Longchamp 54, was a signatory witness to the 1867 Marseille birth of Eustratio Prassacachi.

Stephanos married Athena (Alexandros) Matsas on 18 Mar 1858 in Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey. Athena (daughter of Alexandros Matsas and Marigo Kyrani) was born on 30 Jan 1840 in Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey; died on 10 May 1898 in rue de la Sante 29, Paris 13ème, Île-de-France, France; was buried in First Cemetery of Athens, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Philanthropy: Mrs S. C. Agelasto donated money to the Chios Hospital, July 1874, according to published research by Demetrios Melachrinoudis.

Name:
Name is Athena Matza on death certificate.

Buried:
The tombstone reads: Athena S. Agelastos

Died:
DOD from death certificate.

Notes:

Nicolas P. Caridia was among the partners in business as Merchants, at London, Manchester, and Calcutta, under the firm of Schilizzi and Co., at Leghorn under the firm of Schilizzi and Vafiadacchi, at Castellamare under the firm of Paul Stefanovich Schilizzi, at Constantinople under the firm of Z. Stefanovich and Co., and at Taganrog and Rostoff-on-the-Don under the firm of John F. Paspatti, until dissolved 31 March 1866. Other partners were: John Stephen Schilizzi, Zanni Stefanovich Schilizzi, Demetrius Stefanovich Schilizzi, John Stefanovich Schilizzi, Paul John Schilizzi, Paul Stefanovich Schilizzi, Giovanni Vafiadacchi, Ambrosio M. Cappari, Emmanuel Hafduvachi, Michael P. Mavrogordato, Michael F. Paspatti, John F. Paspatti, Aristides Z. Caridia, and Demetrius J. Paspatti. (London Gazette 22 Feb 1869)

Nicholas Leonidas Caridia, merchant, Alexandria, was an investor in the Bank of Alexandria Limited (London Gazette 27 Feb 1873).

Name:
also Carydia

Nicolas married Marietta Pitsipio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This Nicholas may be the father of Pantaleon Nicholas Caridia.