Major Theodore Ambrose (Ambrose) Scaramanga

Notes:

Land registry: Nether Westoote Farm, Nether Westcote, Gloucestershire, by T.A. Scaramanga (London Gazette 16 May 1950).

Christened:
God-parents: Eliza Scaramanga.

Died:
Death notice appeared in The Times (London), 30 Mar 1988

Theodore married Lavender B Beauman in aut 1958 in Surrey, England UK. Lavender (daughter of Brigadier-General Archibald Bentley (Bentley) Beauman, CBE DSO, Bar and Eva Dorothy Dunn) was born on 20 May 1927 in London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
The marriage of Theodore A Scaramanga & Lavender B Beauman was registered Oct-Nov-Dec 1958, Surrey Mid Eastern, Surrey, v 5g, p 336.

1. Living
2. Living

Notes:

Residence, England: 1917, 101 Inverness Terrace, Hyde Park, London; Tiltwood, Crawley Down, Sussex.

Residence 1917, 101 Inverness Terrace, Hyde Park, London, England

Occupation: Merchant. Listed in 1913 as a member of the Baltic Exchange (representing Scaramanga Bros, of 7 Union Court, Old Broad Street, City of London).

Education: Cheam School, Eton.

In 1917 he wrote to his mother that he had met a jury member from the 1894 Empire of India court case who said the jury all concluded that his father was a man of the 'highest integrity, large mind and a giant among pygmies'.

He was co-executor of the estate of his sister Despina Rodocanachi (London Gazette 20 Nov 1914).


He was partners with Thomas William Fry in Fry and Scaramanga, Grain Brokers, 34 Great St. Helen's, London, until it dissolved 31 Dec 1898 (London Gazette 30 Dec 1898).

He co-administered his mother's estate.

Ambrose George Scaramanga [30 Great St. Helen's - abode 22 Ryder Street, St. James' Street SW] appears on the 1905 City of London parliamentary division, City of London county/borough; [30 Great St. Helen's - abode 1 Down Street, Piccadilly] 1911 Chelsea/Kensington and Chelsea; [101 Inverness Terrace] 1914, 1915 Paddington South/Westminster; 1918, 1921 Paddington and St Marylebone parliamentary division, Westminster county/borough; 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929 Paddington/Westminster; 1928, Paddington and Poplar/Westminster.

The 1939 England and Wales Register for the address Tiltwood, Cuckfield, Sussex, lists Olga M Rodocanachi, b. 2 Dec 1889, Divorced, Unpaid Domestic Duties; Ambrose G Scaramanga, b. 31 Dec 1869, Private Means; wife Nina Scaramanga, b. 3 Jun 1879, Married, Unpaid Domestic Duties.

1921 England and Wales Census lists: Raymond Ambrose Scaramanga, b. 1915, East Grimstead, Wiltshire; Ambrose George Scaramanga; Nina Scaramanga; for a household in East Grinstead, Sussex.

1911 England census: household at 101 Inverness Terrace, Hyde Park , London, W Paddington, headed by Ambrose Scaramanga, 41, b. Sussex, married 1 year, no children, ship owner; wife Nina, 31, b. London; 4 servants.

The 1901 England Census reports the Scaramanga household at Tiltwood House, Crawley Down, Sussex included: Elisa Scaramanga, head, 58, widow; children Marigo, 38, both born London; Ambrose, 31, shipowner; Calliope, 29; John, 32, shipowner, his wife Louise (born Russia, British subject), 26, their sons George, 3, and James, 2, both born Sussex; 5 domestic servants.

The 1881 England Census reports finds Ambrose G. Scaramanga, 11, born Sussex, a boarding student at 2 Cheam Schools, Surrey.

Christened:
God-parents: Ambrose John Ralli.

Died:
Death notice appeared in The Times (London) 7 Nov 1946, pg. 1.

He died 'peacefully.'

Buried:
Funeral at the cemetery 11:30 a.m. Memorial service before at 11 a.m., All Saints Church, Crawley Down, England.

burial plot no. 5001

Ambrose married Nina (Theodore) Schilizzi on 23 Jul 1910 in St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England UK. Nina (daughter of Theodore Emmanuel (Emmanuel) Schilizzi, Esq. and Fanny (Antonios) Ralli) was born on 03 Jun 1879 in London, England UK; was christened on 09 Jul 1879 in Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England UK; died on 21 Aug 1951 in Crawley Down, Sussex, England UK; was buried on 24 Aug 1951 in Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Nina Scaramanga [101 Inverness Terrace] appears on the 1918, 1921 Paddington and St Marylebone parliamentary division, Westminster county/borough; 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929 Paddington/Westminster; 1928, Paddington and Poplar/Westminster.

The 1939 England and Wales Register for the address Tiltwood, Cuckfield, Sussex, lists Olga M Rodocanachi, b. 2 Dec 1889, Divorced, Unpaid Domestic Duties; Ambrose G Scaramanga, b. 31 Dec 1869, Private Means; wife Nina Scaramanga, b. 3 Jun 1879, Married, Unpaid Domestic Duties.

1921 England and Wales Census lists: Raymond Ambrose Scaramanga, b. 1915, East Grimstead, Wiltshire; Ambrose George Scaramanga; Nina Scaramanga; for a household in East Grinstead, Sussex.

1911 England census: household at 101 Inverness Terrace, Hyde Park , London, W Paddington, headed by Ambrose Scaramanga, 41, b. Sussex, married 1 year, no children, ship owner; wife Nina, 31, b. London; 4 servants.

1901 England census: 90 Westbourne Terrace, London, household headed by Fanny Schilizzi, 50, widow; daughter Nina, 21, both living on own means, b. London; & 6 servants.

1891 England Census: 90 Westbourne Terrace, London, household headed by Fanny Schillizi, widow, living on own means; sons Emmanuel, 17 and Pandia, 14; daughter, Nina, 11, all b. London; & 6 servants.

The 1881 England Census reports that Theodore E. Schilizzi, head, 41, general merchant, born Constantinople, lived at 90 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London, with wife Fanny, 30, born London Finsbury; sons Manoli, 7; Antoni, 6; Pandia, 4; and daughter Nina, 1, all born Paddington; and eight domestic servants.

Christened:
Alexander D. Ralli (represented by Polymnia P. Scaramanga)

Buried:
burial plot no. 5001, reg. pg. 18998, no. 81169.

Notes:

Married:
Marriage notice appeared in The Times (London) 25 Jul 1910.

Witnesses/Sponsors: -- Rodocanachi; G. Eumorphopoulos; Ceremony performed by the Great Archimandrite C. Pagonis, assisted by the Rev. Archimandrite Moscovakis.

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.

Naturalisation Papers: Scaramanga, George Emanuel, from Greece. Certificate 3920 issued 24 September 1862,

Buried:
burial plot Sq 28, no. 27738, no. 56 on Greek plan, register pg. 11609, no. 22039.

Archimandrite A. Paraschis officiating

Died:
Estate valued at £8738 4s 6d, administered at London 17 Jan 1897, went to widow.

George married Elizabeth (Emmanuel) Franghiadi on 23 Feb 1860 in Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England UK. Elizabeth (daughter of Emmanuel George (Zorzis) Franghiadi and Marigo (Michael) Rodocanachi) was born on 22 Mar 1843 in London, England UK; was christened on 15 May 1843 in Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England UK; died on 09 May 1933 in Crawley Down, Sussex, England UK; was buried on 12 May 1933 in Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The 1901 England Census reports the Scaramanga household at Tiltwood House, Crawley Down, Sussex included: Elisa Scaramanga, head, 58, widow; children Marigo, 38, both born London; Ambrose, 31, shipowner; Calliope, 29; John, 32, shipowner, his wife Louise (born Russia, British subject), 26, their sons George, 3, and James, 2, both born Sussex; 5 domestic servants.

The 1881 England Census reports the George G. Scaramanga household at Tiltwood House, Crawley Down, Sussex included: George G., head, 55, general merchant, born Greece, naturalized British subject; wife Elisa G., 38; children Despina G, 20; Marigo, 18; Julia, 16, all born London; Calliope, 9; Erato 8; both born Sussex; 3 domestic servants.

1891 England census: 84 Lansdown Road, Hove, Sussex, household headed by George E Scaramarga, 65, retired merchant, b. Greece, naturalized British subject; wife Elise, 48; daughters Marrigo, 28, both born London; Calliope, 19; Erato, 18, both b. Worth, Sussex; & 5 servants.

1861 England census: 123 Westbourne Terrace, London, household headed by George E. Scaramanga, 34, general merchant, b. Greece; wife Elise G.E., 18; daughter, Despina, 21 months, both b. London; brother Emanuel E., unmarried, 22, general merchant, b. Greece; & 5 servants [next to the Peter Rodocanachi family at number 125].

Christened:
God-parents: Hypatios Michael Rodocanachi.

Name:
Husband's probate lists her name as Elise.

Buried:
burial plot 27738, reg. pg. 17516, 69290.

Died:
Her estate of £14431 16s. 4d. was administered by her sons John and Ambrose.

Notes:

Married:
Marriage Witnesses: Emmanuel Scaramanga and Julia Franghiadi; Narkissos Morphinos presiding; entry 43

Marriage announcement in the Observer [London], 26 Feb 1860, p. 9.

Notes:

UK Naturalisation: Theodore Emmanuel Schilizzi, Greece, 10 Jun 1871; home office paper 2889; certificate A371

Theodore Emanuel Schilizzi [121 Bishopsgate Street EC 'share in freehold tenements'] appears on the 1886 electoral register, Hornsey parliamentary division, Haringey county/borough.

Birth:
11 February 1839 according to memorial stone in West Norwood

Died:
Personal estate valued at £24458 17s 5d, administered at London 15 Dec 1887, proved Fanny Theodore Schilizzi, widow, sole executrix.

"Three imposing monuments of distinguished members of the Schilizzi family are also included in the English Heritage list. The earliest belongs to Theodore E. Schilizzi (1840-1887) and is situated Southwest of the monumental gateway. The baldacchino monument (TQ 3272 32/1116) was erected in 1872. Pink marble columns with white marble antae protect a life-size marble female statue dressed in classical robes, clasping a crucifix, which stands on a pink granite plinth."

Buried:
register entry 70736

Archimandrite Dionysious Pesesa? presiding

burial plot no. 12856, sq 28, no. 39 on Greek plan, reg. pg. 8845, no. 70736.

Theodore married Fanny (Antonios) Ralli on 12 Oct 1872 in Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England UK. Fanny (daughter of Antonios (Alexander) Ralli and Nina (Paul) Mavrogordato) was born on 24 Jul 1850 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England UK; was christened on 19 Aug 1850 in Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England UK; died on 02 Aug 1923 in London, England UK; was buried on 07 Aug 1923 in Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence: 1910 - DOD, 31 Parkside, Knightsbridge, London, England.

1871 England census: 102 Westbourne Terrace, London, household headed by Augustus [should be Antonio] Ralli, 59, merchant, b. Chios; wife Nina, 42, b. Malta; daughters Fanny, 20; Julia, 19; Virginia Ralli, 12; Augusta [Antonia], 4; son George, 17, all b. London; & 7 servants.

The 1881 England Census reports that Theodore E. Schilizzi, head, 41, general merchant, born Constantinople, lived at 90 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London, with wife Fanny, 30, born London Finsbury; sons Manoli, 7; Antoni, 6; Pandia, 4; and daughter Nina, 1, all born Paddington; and eight domestic servants.

1891 England Census: 90 Westbourne Terrace, London, household headed by Fanny Schillizi, widow, living on own means; sons Emmanuel, 17 and Pandia, 14; daughter, Nina, 11, all b. London; & 6 servants.

The 1901 England Census reports that Fanny Schilizzi, head, widow, 50, born London Finsbury, lived at 90 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London, with her daughter Nina, 21, born London Paddington, with six domestic servants.

1911 England census: household at 31 Parkside, Knightsbridge S W, London, headed by Fanny Schilizzi, 60, b. London, widow, 4 children, 3 living, British subject; 4 servants.

The 1921 England and Wales census includes Fanny Theodore Schilizzi, b. 1850, London, Middlesex, England; for a household in St George's Hanover Square, London.

Fanny Schilizzi (née Ralli) is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, UK: by Camille Silvy, albumen print, 27 February 1861, NPG Ax51632.

Including Fanny four of the children of Antonio Alexander Ralli are on the Agelasto or Negroponte-Agelasto tree: Pandia by his first wife Mina Tamvaco; Stephanie/Fanny, Antonia and Virginia by his second wife Nina Mavrogordato.

Fanny Schilizzi (née Ralli) (1850-1923), Second wife of Theodore Emmanuel Schilizzi; daughter of Antonio Alexander Ralli was photographed by Camille Silvy; Collection National Portrait Gallery, London--albumen print, 27 Feb 1861, NPG Ax51632.

Fanny Theodore Schilizzi appears on the 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1905 [90 Westbourne Terrace], 1906 England electoral register, Paddington South parliamentary division, Westminster county/borough; 1910, 1912, 1914, 1915 (residence: St George, Hanover Square); 1918, City of Westminster/ Westminster; 1922, City of Westminster and St Marylebone/ Westminster.

Birth:
27 Jul 1850 according to Sturdza

Christened:
Godparent: Aicaterine Ralli

Died:
Her estate of ￡41529 4s. 10d. was administered by Emmanuel Theodore Schillia [son].

Buried:
burial plot 12856, sq 28, no. 39 on Greek plan, reg. pg. 16279, no. 59398.

Notes:

Married:
Marriage notice appeared in The Pall Mall Gazette (London), 14 Oct 1872.

Witnesses/Sponsors: Anthony D. Ralli & Alexander A. Ralli; Narkissos Morphinos presiding; entry 85

Notes:

Writer of a diary recapitulating the events of the Chios Massacres and recording his later life in exile. Member of the Expeditionary Commission which attempted to liberate Chios in 1827. An Emmanuel Scaramanga lived on Syros. (Christopher Long)

"First settled in the Cyclades (Tinos,Andros and Syros) and was finally appointed Vice-Consul o Greece in Rhodes."

Emmanuel married Despina (Frangoulis) Salvago. Despina was born on 22 Apr 1795 in Chios, Greece; died on 15 May 1871 in Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

Notes:

Occupation: merchant

Residence: 1859, Constantinople

Birth:
According to tombstone DOB about 1794

Died:
DOD according to tombstone: 3 March 1864

Emmanuel married Vierou (Leonidas) Argenti. Vierou was born on 26 Apr 1801 in Chios, Greece; died on 28 Sep 1868 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence: DOD, quartier St. Anne, Marseille, France.

Died:
Her death certificate was signed by Theodore (Paraskeva) Sechiari.

Notes:

This marriage has been cited as one of several marriage alliances involving business ties.

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Founders of the Greek Orthodox Cemetery at West Norwood included John Stephen Schilizzi, Eustracio Ralli, Antonio Ralli [likely this man] and Alexander Constantine Ionides. Calapodis lists John Schilizzi, Antonios Ralli and Eustratios Ralli.

He co-administered his brother Pandia's estate.

Buried:
Archimandrite Jerome officiating; burial register says DOD 4 July 1882

Died:
The value of the personal estate amounted "to upwards of £437,000. The testator leaves to his son Alexander his freehold residence, No. 10, Heene-terrace, Worthing, and his house and grounds in his native island of Scio; to his son Pandia, his freehold house, No. 2, Heene-terrace; to his son Paul, his freehold house, No. 3, Heene-terrace; to his son George, a freehold garden and some land at Worthing; to his daughter Mrs. Polymnia Peter Scaramanga, £50,000; upon trust for his daughter Antonina, £50,000; to his daughters Mrs. Fanny Theodore Schilizzi and Mrs. Virginia Demetrius Spartali, £20,000 each; to his son-in-law Mr. Schilizzi, £5000; to his son-in-law Mr. Scaramanga, £1000; to the public school in the island of Scio, £500; to the Hospital of the Island of Scio and the special Hospital for the Leprous in the same island, £250 each; and legacies to two clerks, and to domestic servants. The residue of his real and personal estate is to be divided between his four sons, but one moiety is to accumulate for five years before division" (The Illustrated London News, No.2258—Vol. LXXXI, 12 Aug 1882, p.184).

Antonios married Nina (Paul) Mavrogordato on 04 Jul 1849 in Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England UK. Nina was born on 22 Aug 1827 in Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece; died on 17 Sep 1878 in Heene Terrace, West Worthing, Sussex, England UK; was buried on 24 Sep 1878 in Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence: at DOD 102 Westbourne Terrace, London, England.

Four of the children of Antonio Alexander Ralli are on the Agelasto or Negroponte-Agelasto tree: Pandia by his first wife Mina Tamvaco; Stephanie/Fanny, Antonia and Virginia by Nina, his second wife.

Buried:
burial plot 16172, reg. pg. 6380, no. 51021.

Notes:

Married:
Witnesses/Sponsors: Anthony Th. Ralli & Catingo Th. Ralli; Dionysios Xenakis presiding; Entry 12