Dimitrios (Stephen) Petrocochino

Notes:

The 1881 British Census reports that the family living at Claremont Villas, Bury New Road, Broughton, Salford, Lancs. included: Stephen E. Petrocochino, head, 41, East Indian merchant, born Smyrna; his wife Semira S., 31, born London; children Manoli S., 7; Alexander S., 6, Marigo S., 5, all born Calcutta; Demetrius S., 2, born Ilford, England; Matthew D., nephew, 18, born Liverpool; and 4 servants.

Residence: 1881, Claremont Villas, Bury New Road, Broughton, Salford, Lancs; at DOD Athens, Greece

Tennis player who participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics, Athens, where he faced his cousin Konstantinos Paspatis.

Christened:
God-parents: Despina Petrocochino.

Family/Spouse: Aspasia (Leonidas) Tsitsekli. Aspasia (daughter of Leonidas Tsitsekli and Danaë Proïos) was born on 05 Jun 1891 in Smyrna/Izmir, Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Occupation: Merchant.

He retired 31 Dec 1889 from his partnership with Eustratius Emmanuel Petrocochino and Despina (Matthew) Rodocanachi, recent widow of Dimitrios (Emmanuel) Petrocochino, operating under the firm of Petrocochino Brothers, at Palmerston Buildings, Old Broad Street, London and Manchester and Calcutta, India (London Gazette18 Jul 1890).

Residence: 1871, Lancaster Gate, London, England; at DOD 34 Academy Street, Athens, Greece.

The 1881 British Census reports that the family living at Claremont Villas, Bury New Road, Broughton, Salford, Lancs. [next to the Alexander Alexandroff family] included: Stephen E. Petrocochino, head, 41, East Indian merchant, born Smyrna; his wife Semira S., 31, born London; children Manoli S., 7; Alexander S., 6, Marigo S., 5, all born Calcutta; Demetrius S., 2, born Ilford, England; Matthew D., nephew, 18, born Liverpool; and 4 servants.

Stephen E. Petrocochino, 18 Finsbury Circus, London, is listed among the 96 Greek members of the Baltic Exchange 1860-69.

Died:
Estate valued at £5048 17s. 7d., probated in Britain, administered by Emmanuel Eustratius Petrocochinom Estate, the attorney for Lemira Petrocochino [widow].

Stephen married Semira (Emmanuel) Franghiadi on 12 Aug 1871 in Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England UK. Semira (daughter of Emmanuel George (Zorzis) Franghiadi and Marigo (Michael) Rodocanachi) was born on 29 May 1849 in London, England UK; was christened on 27 Oct 1849 in Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England UK; died on 13 Jun 1927 in Athens, Attica, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Residence: at DOD 34 Academy Street, Athens, Greece (London Gazette 21 Oct 1927).

The 1881 British Census reports that the family living at Claremont Villas, Bury New Road, Broughton, Salford, Lancs. included: Stephen E. Petrocochino, head, 41, East Indian merchant, born Smyrna; his wife Semira S., 31, born London; children Manoli S., 7; Alexander S., 6, Marigo S., 5, all born Calcutta; Demetrius S., 2, born Ilford, England; Matthew D., nephew, 18, born Liverpool; and 4 servants.

The 1861 England census: 9 Gloucester Square household headed by Emanuel G Franghiadi, 48, merchant, b. Greece; wife Constance, 32; son Stephen, 15; daughters Semira, 11 and Julia, 9; and son Paul, 2, all b. London; & 5 servants.

1871 England census: Ilford Hall, Barking, Ilford, Essex, household headed by Constance Franghiadi, 42, married, merchant's wife; daughters Semira, 21 and Julia, 18, all b. London; Mary, 8; son Emanuel, 6, both b. Ilford; & 3 servants.

Christened:
God-parents: N. M. Mavrogordato.

Died:
Death certificate for this date not found in central Athens Vital Statistics Bureau (2011).

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Married:
Marriage Witnesses: E. Em. Petrocochino and Despina D. Petrocochino; Narkissos Morphinos presiding; entry 84.

Marriage notice appeared in The Pall Mall Gazette (London) 14 Aug 1871.

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His siblings included younger sister Loula, younger brother Michael, older sister Franga, and older brother Nicolas, all on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree.

Emmanuel married Alexandra (Stephanos) Ralli. Alexandra was born in 1801 in Chios, Greece; died in 1874 in Smyrna/Izmir, Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Three children of Stephanos Ambrouzis Ralli & Despina Omiro -- Alexandra and her siblings Calliope, and Ambrouzis -- are on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree.

Notes:

London Law case, 1864: Lane v London Bank of Scotland; plaintiffs: Richard Stuart Lane, Horace Edward Chapman and Frederick John Helbert; Defendants: The London Bank of Scotland Ltd, William Walter Cargill, Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay bart, Peter Pandia Rodocanachi, George Emanuel Scaramanga, Emanuel George Franghiadi, Eugene Collins, Henry Spicer, William Julius Marshall, John Elin, Hon William Napier liquidator of the said Bank, Nathaniel Hitchin Palmer and Richard Baker.

He escaped Chios in 1822 in a barrel hidden aboard a ship, according to his great-grandson Yannis Franghiadi.

Died:
The 1890 register of deaths, Vital Statistics, Piraeus, Greece, lists Emmanuel Franghiadi, p 716.

Emmanuel married Marigo (Michael) Rodocanachi on 23 Jan 1838 in Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England UK. Marigo (daughter of Michael (Matthew) Rodocanachi and Semira (Hypatios) Avierino) was born on 13 Jan 1821 in Chios, Greece; died on 25 Jun 1856 in London, England UK; was buried on 28 Jun 1856 in Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Catsiyannis says her marriage is the first documentary evidence of a Rodocanachi in London (apart, presumably, from that of Constantine, physician to King Charles ll) (Christopher Long)

The 1841 England Census reports the household living at 18 Finsbury Circus, London: Emanuel Franghiadi, 25, Paul Franghiadi 15; Mary Franghiadi, 20, all foreign born; George Franghiadi, 17 months; Michel Franghiadi, 7 months, both born in England.

Buried:
burial plot no. 5001

Notes:

Married:
This union seems unrelated to the large London firm of Rodocanachi & Franghiadi, exporters of grain and coffee, in the 1850s.

Witnesses/Sponsors: P.S. Ralli & Stephen Franghiadi; Dionysios Xenakis presiding; entry 2.

"A betrothal might cement an existing collaboration between business partners from two different families, as occurred in the case of Emmanouel Frangiades, who married Marigo Rodocannachis, the sister of his buiness partner, in London in 1833 [sic]." Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, "Women and Family Capitalism in Greece, c. 1780-1940," Business History Review, v 81, n 3, pp 522-523.

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Dominie Nicholls (née Vlasto) says in her memoirs that he was hanged on Chios in 1822 though this is not known to Argenti's 'Libro d'Oro' or to Helen Long's 'Greek Fire'. (Christopher Long)

Brother to Platon-Pantoleon Emmanuel Franghiadi, bishop of Chios, b. 1776 and hanged by the Turks in April 1822; and Sephen Emmannuel Franghiadi, b. 1774.

Zorzis married Zambelou (Constantine) Negroponte. Zambelou (daughter of Constantine (Zannis) Negroponte and Arghyro [Negroponte]) died in 1856. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Argenti says he was held hostage in the Kastro in 1822 on Chios and then hanged. Helen Long's 'Greek Fire' agrees he was a hostage in the Kastro in 1822 but that he was then released. (Christopher Long)

Michael married Semira (Hypatios) Avierino. Semira (daughter of Hypatios (Antonios) Avierino) was born in 1798 in Chios, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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After the massacres on Chios in 1822 she fled with her children to her husband's brothers in Trieste.