Ion (Hector) Economo

Notes:

Residence at DOD: 135 Calea Victoria, Bucarest, Romania.

Birth:
DOB 1 Jan 1870 according to cemetery records and death certificate.

Catherine married Count Hector (Dimitrios) Economo on 21 Jun 1893 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Hector (son of Dimitrios Economo and Polyxene Bertoumi) was born on 20 Mar 1864 in Trieste, Italy/Austria; died on 18 Apr 1924 in Paris 16ème, Île-de-France, France; was buried on 20 Apr 1924 in Ancien cimetière de Boulogne-sur-Seine, Val de Seine Paris 92100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Residence, Paris 16e: 1908, 82 rue de la Faisanderie; 1909, 78 avenue Malakoff.

Name:
Or Economou, Economos

Birth:
DOB 20 Mar 1864, according to his marriage certificate. Argenti says 4 Mar 1859.

Notes:

Married:
Marriage witnesses: Jean Economos, 56, merchant, bride's uncle; Pericles Zarifi, banker, Legion of Honour, 40, res. Marseille, friend of bride; Etienne Zefiropoulo, banker, Legion of Honor, 72, Marseille; Antoine Vlasto, banker, Legion of Honor, 37, Paris, groom's [more likely bride's] uncle.

Notes:

Ulysse Negroponte, Braila [Romania], owned 600 shares, Societe hellenique anonyme d'assurances generales la Nationale, L'Argus (Paris), 22 Nov 1891, p. 740.

U.J. Negropontes, contributed 50 fr. into Braila [Romania] Martinique disaster relief fund.

Ulysse Negroponte gave 40,000 francs toward the construction of the Greek Church, rue Bizet, Paris Le Temps [Paris], 11 Nov 1912, p. 3.

The family manufactured cardboard at Grozeschti [Iaşi County, Romania], firm est. 1888, employing 100 workers, Revue de la papeterie française et étrangère, 1901, p. 624; 1903, p. 1903.

Ulysse Negroponte is among the 15 bankers who signed an agreement with the Ottoman government in Nov 1879 to ensure sufficient capital, A. Du Velay, Essai sur l'histoire financière de la Turquie : depuis le règne du sultan Mahmoud II jusqu'à nos jours, Paris, 1903, p. 400.

U.J. Negropontes, banquier, Kulchuk Millet Han 34-36, Galata, Annuaire oriental (Constantinople), 1891, pp. 385, 465.

Buried:
Funeral at the Greek Church, 5 rue Georges-Bizet, Paris, 25 Mar 1914, 2:30 p.m. Death announcement in Le Gaulois, 25 Mar 1914, p. 3.

Ulysses married Sophia (George) Zarifi on 02 Jan 1864 in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey. Sophia (daughter of George (Ioannis) Zarifi and Eleni (Dimitrios) Zafiropoulo) was born on 24 Mar 1848 in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey; died on 07 Jun 1923 in rue de la Faisanderie 106, Paris 16ème, Île-de-France, France; was buried on 13 Jun 1923 in Ancien cimetière de Boulogne-sur-Seine, Val de Seine Paris 92100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mme U. Negroponte gave 1000 francs to the committee for Asia-Minor refugees Le Gaulois [Paris], 8 Jul 1914, p. 2.

Mme Ulysse Negroponte, née Zarifi, is among those listed in "La Colonie hellénique de Paris," Le Gaulois [Paris], 2 Nov 1917, p. 2.

Birth:
Death certificate says 2 Apr 1848.

Died:
The death notice of Mme Ulysse Negropontes appeared in Le Gaulois, 9 Jun 1923, p. 2.

Buried:
Funeral at the Greek Church, 5 rue Georges-Bizet, Paris, 13 Jun 1923, 10:30 a.m.

Notes:

Married:
Sturdza says 1869.

Dimitrios married Polyxene Bertoumi. Polyxene was born in 1835; died in 1907. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sturdza claims (surely wrongly) that he is the brother of Theodore (Ambrosios) rather than his son. (Christopher Long)

Occupation: merchant

Zannis married Catherine (Ulysses) Meimarides about 1897 in Athens, Attica, Greece. Catherine (daughter of Ulysses Meimarides) was born in Tatavla, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey; died in 1891 in Athens, Attica, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence: 1868, Galata, Constantinople [son's marriage certificate says Galatz, Turkey].

Name:
Name is given as Catherine Meimaridi on her son's death certificate.

Notes:

Occupation: merchant; founder of Zafiropoulo & Zarifi

They had five children but only those who are spouses to bloodline Agelastos are included on this website.

Greek citizenship 1830; left Greece 1843; directed Ottoman finances and Greek-Turk affairs.

Georgios Zarifi sought refuge in Odessa with his parents in the time of the Greek War of Independence and that he attended the Lycee Richelieu. He returned to Greece in 1830 and settled permanently in Constantinople in 1843.

The late Georges Zariphi, merchant, Constantinople, was a donating member, Association for the Encouragement of Greek Studies, Paris, France

George Zarifis is listed among the 11 greeks who were bankers in Constantinople from the 1840s.

G. Zarifi, Constantinople, is listed among the diaspora Greeks donating 3000 [Ottoman pounds] to a fund for the Thebes earthquake in 1853.

His brother-in-law was Étienne Zafiropoulo, a leader of the second generation of Greek merchants in Marseille.

Christopher Long notes: Occupation -- Founder in Constantinople the vast bank and trading house of Zafiropoulo & Zarifi (Z&Z) with his father-in-law Dimitrios Zafiropoulo and brother-in-law Stephanos, with branches in London, Marseille, Danube and Odessa. Education -- Tsar Alexander l gave him free entry to the Lycée Richelieu (Lyceum Richelowski), Odessa. Returned to Constantinople in 1831 despairing of the chaos in Greece. Entered Dimitrios Zafiropoulo’s cereal trading house, married his daughter and took over as partner. Great benefactor of Greek Communities in Constantinople and Philippoupolis. He and Stephanos Zafiropoulo founded Turkey’s most important banking and commercial company which, as Z&Z, extended to Marseilles, London, Odessa and Romania. Looked after the Constantinople headquarters for 40 years while Stepanos Zafiropoulo developed the Marseilles branch and Zarifi brothers developed other branches. Banker to his friend Prince Abdul Hamid who unexpectedly became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire when his brother went mad. Established the Ottoman Debt Company to relieve himself of the Sultan’s financial demands. The Sultan gave him 150,000 acres on the Mesopotamian River in Baghdad and as collateral for loans granted him the customs duties in many Turkish ports. George refused membership of parliament as he would have had to renounce his Greek nationality. He was a patron and benefactor on a colossal scale of innumerable Greeks and Greek institutions throughout the Ottoman Empire - his reputation was world-wide and rehearsed in The Globe (16-04-1881) and in his obituary in The New York Herald (1884).

Georges Zarifi is among the 15 bankers who signed an agreement with the Ottoman government in Nov 1879 to ensure sufficient capital, A. Du Velay, Essai sur l'histoire financière de la Turquie : depuis le règne du sultan Mahmoud II jusqu'à nos jours, Paris, 1903, p. 400.

George married Eleni (Dimitrios) Zafiropoulo. Eleni was born on 07 Jul 1817 in Tzoubali, Phanar, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey; died on 18 May 1910 in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey; was buried in Sisli, Sea of Marmara, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She appears in a 1905 photograph with her daughters and daughter-in-law (Akylas Millas ‘E Prinkipos’ Athens 1988). She was astonished to find herself pregant around the age of 50 (Christopher Long).

The Ottoman Sultan gave her a silver bidet and jug with matching bathroom accessories which all fitted into a mahogany case. Eleni never travelled without it and in 1994 it remains in the family! (Christopher Long)

Named ‘Mother of the Orphans’ by the Sultan because of the numerous homes she provided for them: e.g. The National Orphanage for Boys, Prinkipos and the Central Girls’ School, Pera. (Christopher Long).

“Most of my photos show her old but upright amidst her progeny with a Victorian bonnet on her head... plain of face, tall, slim, impeccably attired, imposing and relaxed. Her husband George remained devoted to her all his life...” (Christopher Long).

Birth:
The French obituary published in Simeonoglou says she was born 1813. George L Zarifi repeatedly implies she was borin in 1817. Sturdza says 1820. (Christopher Long).

Died:
Helene Zarifi, widow, Constantinople, Turkey, died 25 December 1905. Her estate a half century later was handled by Maxwell Batley & Co., 65, London Wall, London, E.C.2, Solicitors (John Howgate). (London Gazette