Stephen (Emmanuel) Franghiadi

Notes:

1881 England census: household Gloucester House, Balham Hill, Streatham, London, headed by Stephen Franghiadi, 35, b. London, Member Of London Stock Exchange; wife Despina Franghiadi, 27, b. Russia; daughter Marigo Franghiadi, 4, b. Gilford, Essex; sons Manoli Franghiadi, 3, b. Gilford, Essex; John Franghiadi, 2, b. Streatham, Surrey; George Franghiadi, 1, b. Streatham, Surrey; Paul Franghiadi, 22, brother, unmarried, b. London, stock exchange clerk; 4 domestic servants.

Christened:
Godparent: George Scaramanga

Emmanuel married Paulina (Socrates) Barbaressou. Paulina was born in 1887; died in 1967. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Fraghiadi Stephen, 82 Old Broad St EC, London (1882 city directory)

Stephen Franghiadi was photographed by Camille Silvy; albumen print, 23 March 1861, NPG Ax52076.

Occupation: landowner

The original birth certificate is held by his grandson Yannis who says that Stephen and his two brothers came to Greece in the 1850s.

1881 England census: household Gloucester House, Balham Hill, Streatham, London, headed by Stephen Franghiadi, 35, b. London, Member Of London Stock Exchange; wife Despina Franghiadi, 27, b. Russia; daughter Marigo Franghiadi, 4, b. Gilford, Essex; sons Manoli Franghiadi, 3, b. Gilford, Essex; John Franghiadi, 2, b. Streatham, Surrey; George Franghiadi, 1, b. Streatham, Surrey; Paul Franghiadi, 22, brother, unmarried, b. London, stock exchange clerk; 4 domestic servants.

Christened:
God-parents: Theodore M. Ralli.

Died:
Athens tombstone reads: Stephen Emm. Franghiadi, born in London 8 May 1845, died in Athens 31 Dec 1922

Stephen married Despina (Zannis) Scaramanga. Despina was born on 17 Feb 1854 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia; died on 31 Jan 1943 in Athens, Attica, Greece; was buried in First Cemetery, Athens, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence: at DOD, 4 Neophyton Vamva Street, Athens, Greece

Died:
31 Oct 1943, according to probate

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.