Dimitrios (Ioannis) Negroponte

Notes:

According to son George: "My father had a very conflicted relationship with the USA. My mother and father came to New York at the "request" of my Coumantaros grandfather Nicholas. The story goes that he wanted one of his children out of Europe as the war broke out. My father worked for Stavros Niarchos at first. In the early 1940s. Then for Didi Stathatos. Then eventually for himself both here and in London. He always did fairly well in his business but it wasn't easy. We were all sent to the very established schools (Choate, Exeter, Yale and MIT). Our "Americanization" was really accomplished more by these schools than our parents."

1940 US federal census, 995 5th Avenue, New York, New York: Dimitri Negroponte, 25, b. Switzerland, renter, $250/month, living London 1935, alien; wife Catherine, 23, b. New York, living Athens, Greece 1935.

Birth:
7 Apr 1915 according to both Sturdza and the US Social Security Death Index.

Died:
The US Social Security Index gives his last residence as the UK. Social Security number: 085-24-3634.

Dimitrios married Aikaterini (Nicolas) Koumandaros on 30 Sep 1938 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Aikaterini (daughter of Nicolas S. Koumandaros and Eleni Phoustanos) was born on 05 Aug 1916 in New York, New York USA; died on 26 Jun 2000 in London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Their honeymoon took them to Paris, California, New York and Washington, DC., where they visited with his sister and her husband, an attache to the French Embassy. "Negropontes Stop Here on Return Trip to England" (Washington Post 15 Nov 1938 p X18 p 35).

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Left Taganrog around 1910. Spent some time in Berlin and then settled in Lausanne, Switzerland, were he lived out the rest of his life. (Christopher Long)

He is likely the Jean Negroponte who is identified in a May 1896 photograph of students' outdoor activity at Sainte Sophie de Monemvasie. Georges Radet, L'histoire et l'oeuvre de l'École française d'Athènes, A. Fontemoing (Paris): 1901, p 230.

John married Eleni (Denis) Stathatos on 04 Jun 1908 in Athens, Attica, Greece, and was divorced about 1920. Eleni (daughter of Denis Anthony (Anthony) Stathatos and Maria Anatzitos) was born on 06 May 1889 in Braila, Romania; died on 19 Aug 1932 in Interlaken, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After her divorce, she spent the rest of her life in Davos, Switzerland, according to her grandson George.

Her father perhaps named a cargo ship for her. See website.

Another steam merchant, Eleni Stathatou, was sunk by a German U-Boat, 1940, according to a website.

Notes:

D.A. Negroponte, merchant, Odessa, Annuaire oriental (Constantinople), 1891, p. 978.

Birth:
Argenti DOB is likely date of baptism

Christened:
Baptism registered on Syros

Dimitrios married Eleni (Nicolas) Avierino on 8 Sep 1866 in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia. Eleni (daughter of Nicolas (Michael) Avierino and Battou (Alexander) Avierino) was born on 21 May 1845 in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia; died on 06 Sep 1909 in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence: 1902, boulevard des Capucines 12, Paris.

She is mentioned as the last Avierino in Russia: "Her long presence may indicate that the Avierino family continued to trade in cereals; but she was also the wife of an Negroponte. the Negroponte company was active in Taganrog at least as late as the 1900s."

Notes:

Denys A. Strathatos was a member Strathatos Brothers, shipowners, based in Ibrail [Braila], Romania, the late 19th and early 20th centuries. See website.

Died:
Denys Anthony Stathatos, 25 Phihellenes, Athens, died 23 Apr 1930, with London probate to Demetrius Denys Stathatos [likely his son].

Denis married Maria Anatzitos. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ambrosios Theodorus Negroponte, 69, merchant, was on the voter list for Syros, 1869.


Residence (overlapping): -1822 Chios; 1831-1844 Constantinople; 1834-1869 Syros; 1848-1872 Chios

1 Dec 1834: Ambrosios Th. Negroponte, 35, born Chios, married, arrived Syros 1834, merchant, swore allegiance to the Greek government at the Syros tribunal.

Ambrosios married Vierou (Dimitrios) Sevastopoulos in 1830. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nicolas married Battou (Alexander) Avierino. Battou was born in 1810 in Chios, Greece; died on 4 Apr 1903 in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]