Argyri (Stamatios) Frangopulo

Notes:

Residence: at DOD, Blaen-y-Mor, Church Road, Penmaenmawr, Carnarvonshire, Wales UK.

The 1939 England and Wales Register for the address 34 Aigburth Dr., Liverpool, Lancashire, lists Argiro Nicolopulo, b. 21 Jul 1864, Widow, Private Means; Constantine Ralli, b. 8 Jun 1897, cotton importer broker; Christine Ralli, b. 27 Jul 1998, unpaid household duties.

Birth:
20 Jul 1866, birthdate from tombstone; birth place is presumed to be Manchester, England.

Name:
Argenti calls her Arghyro Frangopoulos. Argyri Frangopulo in the UK birth registry, v 8d, p 26. Certificate not examined.

Christened:
At home; entry:200(60)/068; Godparent: her aunt, Aglaia Agelasto; priest: Vasilios Moros, Presbyter: M. Oeconomos.

Died:
The death of Argiro Nicolopulo, 81, was registered Mar 1945, Conway, Caernarvonshire, v. 11b, p. 584.

Argyri married George (Demetrios) Nicolopoulo on 24 Apr 1891 in Greek Church of St Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England UK. George (son of Demetrius (Athanase) Nicolopoulo and Calliope (Nicolas) Salvago) was born about 1859. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Christina Agelasto reported that Arghyro married Nicolopoulo and they had a daughter.

Marriage witnesses included I. S. Frangopoulos and L. T. Frangopoulos. Ceremony performed by Archimandrite N. Zervos.

1. Christine Lucie (George) Nicolopoulo was born on 15 Jul 1898 in Sinaia, Romania; died on 23 Jan 1988 in Surrey, England UK.

Notes:

The 1861 England census for "Highfield," Bury New Road, Sefton Park, Liverpool, household headed by Stamati Frangopulo, 45, b. Greece, Mediterranean merchant, naturalized British subject; wife Lucia Frangopulo, 28, b. Syria [Syros]; children Angelica Frangopulo, 10; Nicholas Frangopulo, 8; Michael Frangopulo, 6; James Frangopulo, 4; George Frangopulo, 2; John Frangopulo, 7 months, all b. Manchester, Lancashire; 6 domestic servants.

Birth:
According to his British nauralization application, he was born 6 Jan 1816.

Name:
or Frangopoulos

Died:
Estate valued at under £60,000 went to widow.

Stamatios married Loukia (Michael) Agelasto on 13 Sep 1849 in Manchester, Lancashire, England UK. Loukia (daughter of Michael (Pandely) Agelasto and Maria (Ioannis) Parembli) was born on 14 Feb 1832 in Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece; died on 05 Feb 1929 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England UK; was buried on 08 Feb 1929 in Smithdown Road Cemetery, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence, England: 1851, The Cliff, Broughton, Manchester, with 3-month-old Angelica and her mother Maria Parembli Agelasto; 1861, "Highfield," Bury New Road, Sefton Park, Liverpool; 1880, ten years after her husband's death, she lived with her children: Angeliki, a married daughter, and George, then still probably a bachelor (Address was given as Stoneleigh, Aigburth Road, Liverpool (Lancs), England in the notice of the Frangopulo & Agelasto bankruptcy, London Gazette, 14 Sep 1880); 1895, a L.S. Frangopulo had a phone in Wakefield, Liverpool, Lancs; 1900, Mrs. Lucy Frangopulo lived at 45 Ullet Rd., Aigburth Rd. S, Liverpool; 1901, the census lists her birthplace as "Assyria Greek subject Turkey", living with her grand-daughter, Marigo J. Maximos, age 14; 1921-29, Mrs. L.S. Frangopulo had a phone at 45 Ullet Rd; 1929, 45 Ullet Road, Liverpool.

Liverpool Electoral Registers, 1899-1910, 1904-1905, 1909-1910, 1914-1915: Lucy Frangopulo, 45 Ullet Road (house); 1920, 1925: Lucy Frangopulo and Nicholas Frangopulo, 45 Ullet Road.

1861 England census for "Highfield," Bury New Road, Sefton Park, Liverpool, household headed by Stamati Frangopulo, 45, b. Greece, Mediterranean merchant, naturalized British subject; wife Lucia Frangopulo, 28, b. Syria [Syros]; children Angelica Frangopulo, 10; Nicholas Frangopulo, 8; Michael Frangopulo, 6; James Frangopulo, 4; George Frangopulo, 2; John Frangopulo, 7 months, all b. Manchester, Lancashire; 6 domestic servants.

1871 England census for 'Stone Lea', Aigburth Road, Liverpool: Lucy S. Frangopulo, 37, head, widow, b. Berout, Turkey; sons Nicolas S., 18; James S., 14; George S., 13; John, 10; daughters Maria S., 8; Argyri S., 6; all scholars born Manchester; 8 servants; Demetrios Galatti, 28, head, general merchant, b. Smyrna, Turkey; wife Angelica, 20, b. Manchester; sons Augustus, 2, and Stamati, 8 months; both b. Liverpool, and 4 servants.

1881 census: "Stoneleigh," Aigburth Road, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England household headed by Lucy S. Frangopulo, widow, 48, b. Beyrout, Syria; unmarried sons, Nicholas, 27, merchant - Gen. Broker; George, 22, merchant - Gen. Broker; Johnny, 20, apprentice merchant; daughters Marigo, 18; Argyri, 16; Angelica Galatti, married, 30; all born Manchester; son-in-law L [D] A. Galatti, 39, b. Asia Minor Sanyrini; grandsons Augustus Galatti, 11; Stamati Galatti, 10; granddaughters Lucy, 8; and Zenobia, 5, all scholars b. Liverpool & 7 servants.

1911 England census for 45 Ullet Road, Sefton Park, Liverpool, Lancashire, household headed by Lucy S. Frangopulo, 77, b. Turkey, naturalized Brit, widow, 6 children still living; John C Maximos, 65, b. Greece, son-in-law, widower, married 3 years, two children, one still living, retired cotton broker, USA citizen; Marigo Maximos, 24, b. Virginia, USA, grandaughter, single; 5 servants.

She appears on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree.


Listed as Merchant and Partner in Frangopulo & Agelasto, 1880.

She was God-mother to her grandson Stamati D. Galati.

The Liverpool Mercury, 29 Jan 1880, apparently starved for news, reports on Lucy Frangopulo's carriage accident.

The Frangopulo contingent at the mayor's fancy dress ball, Liverpool, Jan 1883 included: Miss A. (pecheuse Napolitaine), Mrs. (Espagnole), John (Chef de Cuisine) and Miss (Satanella) (Liverpool Mercury 27 Jan 1883).

Mrs. S.N. Frangopulo, Bankside, Higher Broughton was among members of the Manchester Shaksperian Society involved in a fundraising event (Manchester Times 22 Mar 1851); this was about the time of the birth of their first child.

Either she or one of her daughters-in-law attended a ball given in the Manchester Assembly Rooms by Mrs. and Mrs. John Ambrose Negroponte to honor the coming out of their daughter Maria in 1900. She wore a "beautiful dress of pink accordinan-pleated chiffon, the [?] draped half-way with Brussels lace" ("Mrs. Negroponte's Ball," Manchester Times, 12 Jan 1900).

At one social event Mrs. Frangopulo "was in black trimmed with sequined net" ("Mrs. Alfred Charlton's Garden Party" Manchester Times, 19 Jul 1895).

At the Western Club Ball, "As usual Mrs. Negroponte and Mrs. Frangopulo were very strikingly gowned" (Manchester Times, 29 Apr 1898).

Jean Parembli, Greek citizen, died 4 Apr 1927 at Leipzig, Germany, and left his estate to Lucy Stamaty Frangopoulo, Liverpool. He is referred to as Mr. Johannes Parembli and is perhaps Lucy's cousin, she being his closest living kin.

Lucia Frangopoulos gave an icon of Archangel Michael to the Greek Church of Manchester, 1860-1863.

Name:
Known as Lucia Stamatio Frangopulo.

Birth:
The 1871 census says she was born in Berout, Turkey.

Died:
DOD given in Probate.

Will proved 13 Mar 1929 by Frank Deeks Sharples, solicitor, and Herbert Henry Girardet, cotton merchant, executors. Estate valued at £23087 8s 3d, resworn at £23425 2s 1d, administered at Liverpool (London Gazette 5 Apr 1929).

Death notice appeared in The Times (London) 8 Feb 1929.

Buried:
Folio Entry C/N Section Grave Class
2135 42670 N O 50 352 CEM 9/2/8

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Married:
Entry: 002/009; Best man: Zorzis Dromokaites; priest: Damaianos B. Liveropoulos.

Argenti says 01 Sep 1849

Notes:

A Nicolas Frangopoulos, married to an Angeliki, is recorded on a monument at the Petrocochino church Aghios GIoannis in the Kampos, Chios, and is said to have been a 'magistrate' or judge in England. (Christopher Long)

A Nicolas Frangopoulos (no proof that this is he) was appointed as a member of the Chios 'ephory' during the Samian invasion and occupation of the island by Logothetis during the Massacres of Chios. (Christopher Long)

His daughter's marriage record shows him as 'of Syros'. (Christopher Long)


Nicholas Frangopoulos, 63, b. Chios, married, having arrived Syros 1828, merchant, swore allegiance to the Greek state on 20 Aug 1843 at the town hall, Ermoupolis, Syros.

He was likely naturalized British. His grandson Nicholas Frangopulo, in his own application for British naturalization, said his grandfather was a British subject.

Name:
or Frangopoulos

Nicolas married Angeliki (Perris) Maximo. Angeliki died on 28 Nov 1862 in [Greece]. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

An Angeliki Frangopoulos, wife of a Nicolas Frangopoulos, is recorded on a monument at the Petrocochino family church of St John (Aghios GIoannis) in the Kampos on Chios. She is said to have died on 28 Nov 1862 (Christopher Long).

Notes:

Ralli & Agelasto operated in the silk trade in Marseille in 1860-61. See, Gregorii Valerianovich Melgunof, Das südliche Ufer des Kaspischen Meeres oder die Nordprovinzen Persiens (Adamant Media Corporation, 2004), p. 286.

He is the "Mr Agelasto" referred to in the following anecdote. According to John (Matthew) Ziffo, his father Matthew Alexander Ziffo "was born in the Island of Chios about 2 1/2 years before the Massacre. On that terrible day his Mother with her two daughters, and a young maid, carrying my Father, took to the mountains to cross the island; following a long trail of refugees and guided by shepherds over mule paths. The maid soon got tired, left the child on the mountain side and fled. A Mr Agelasto, the father of John Agelasto whose firm (Frangopulo Agelasto & Co of London and Liverpool) [Theodore (Matthew) Ziffo] joined when he came to London, was following and recognizing the child picked him up and took him to the island of Syra. By a fortunate coincidence his mother and sisters also landed in Syra. One can imagine her joy at being re-united with her boy whom she had feared lost."

He is the distinguished gentleman whose portrait is omnipresent at the top right of these webpages.

Parker Agelasto has found four copies of a photo taken in Marseille that is believed to be Michael Pandely Agelasto, same as the portrait miniature. There are a lot of similarities to the portrait miniature, but the two pictures are separated by about 20 years. Similarly, one is a real photo the other an artist likeness of the sitter.

He was in partnership as merchants, at Marseilles, under the firm of Petrocochino, Agelasto & Co.; at Constantinople, under the firm of E. M. Vuro and Co.; at Galatz [sic], under the firm of D. C. Climi and Co.; at Ibraila and Bucharest, under the firm of Parembli and Climi; and at London, under the firm of Petrocochino and Co., until it was dissolved 31 Dec 1861. The other partners included George Petrocochino, Michael Vuro, M. Parembli, Anthony Vlasto, J. M. Agelasto, A. D. Syngros and A. N. Damiano (London Gazette 28 Mar 1862). An earlier notice appeared 18 Mar 1862 with the typo M. P. Agelasts.).

Michel Agelasto, 55, merchant, allees des Capucines 15, was a signatory witness to the marriage of Michel Parembli and Aspasia Dromacaiti, 4 Jun 1857.

He was a signatory witness to the 1849 marriage of Antoine Nicholas Petrocochino and Euthalie George Petrocochino.

Michael Agelasto signed a letter to the provisory Greek Parliament in 1825 demanding it include a Chiot deputy. This suggests he lived briefly in Syros after fleeing Chios in 1822 and before settling in Marseille.

27 Nov 1834: Michael Agelasto, 32, married, born Chios, merchant, arriving Syros 1824, swore allegiance to the government at the Syros tribunal (before the town hall was built). Stephen Agelasto [possibly his third cousin Stephanos (Augustis) Agelasto], who arrived on Syros also in 1824, took the oath the same day.

M.P. Agelasto was among the 327 Chiot refugees in Syros who signed a letter dated 10 Jul 1829 to the Governor of Greece.

M. P. Agelasto was co-administrator of the will [see source] of a parish priest who set up scholarships for young Marseille Chiots in 1861.

P.P. Negroponte and M. Agelesti, both with the firm Negroponte & Agelastl (sic) were among the more than thirty merchants, "citizens of New Orleans and inhabitants of Louisiana," who signed an open letter written under the seal of the City of New Orleans to Dr. John E. E. Ealino in The Charleston Mercury 19 Jan 1860, p 2, praising the physician's skills as his former patients and welcoming him as a winter resident of New Orleans. This man's son, Alexander M., settled in New Orleans after an 1860 visit on which, perhaps, he was accompanied by his father.

"Brig Walter Scott, Leighton, Matamoras 30 ds., with cotton to Negreponte & Agelasto. Oct. 18 [1863], off Tortugas, was boarded by U.S. gunboat Clyde" (New York Times 6 Nov 1863, p 8.

Michel Agelasto is referenced as one of the 1822 massacre refugees who arrived in Marseille (Echinard); This Michel fled to Syros and didn't arrive in Marseille until at least after 1835.

1871 England census: 22 Pembridge Crescent household headed by J M Agelasto, 35, merchant, b. Syros, Greece; wife Aglaia, 29, b. Marseille; sons Michel, 5; Pendley, 4; daughters Katherine, 3; Mary, 2 mos., Alexandra, 11 months; all b. London; father Michael P., 68, retired merchant; mother Marie M., 57, both b. Chios [Scio, Turkey]; & 6 servants.

Philanthropy: in 1867 M(ichael) P. Agelasto donated 100 Francs to Chios Schools; Michael Agelasto & Son donated 250 Francs and M(ichael) P. Agelasto 100 Francs to the Chios Hospital according to unpublished research by Demetrios Melachrinoudis. In 1972 Michael P. Agelasto again gave 200 Francs to the hospital. According to Reports on Hygiene Institutions of Chios by the same author, he contributed to the hospital in various years from 1874-1880.

M. Agelasto, Marseille, is listed among the diaspora Greeks donating 300 fr. to a fund for the Thebes earthquake in 1853.

Petrocochino-Agelasto, Marseille, is listed among the diaspora Greeks donating 250 fr. to a fund for the Thebes earthquake in 1853.

Died:
Argenti incorrectly says 20 Oct 1886.

Buried:
Cemetery 1886 register line entry 9141 midi carré 1, ter grec, no. 2, residence rue de la Biblioteque 24. Register notes: 15 Oct 1894 [year after his wife's death] he was moved to carré 1, ter grec, 3d rue, no. 11.

Michael married Maria (Ioannis) Parembli on 12 Mar 1831 in Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece. Maria (daughter of Ioannis Parembli and Arghyro Damiano) was born in 1811 in Chios, Greece; died on 18 Feb 1893 in quartier Sainte Marguerite, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France; was buried on 19 Feb 1893 in St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residences: The 1851 London census registers "Maria Agelasto, Greek native, a merchant's wife", as living with her daughter, Lucy, her son-in-law and their newborn daughter, Angelica. The 1861 London census reports "Maria M Agelasto", merchant’s wife, hotel visitor; until 1889, 24 Rue de la Bibliothèque, Marseille; 1889, 1 Rue des Trois-Mages, Marseille; 1891-93, 17 allée de Meihan, Marseille.

She likely had a brother named Michael; her sister Despina (Ioannis) Parembli is on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree. Her nearest sibling may have been a boy named Matthaos, born about 1811. He was a student in Munich sometime between 1826 and 1844, according to Konstantin Kotsowilis, Die griechischen Studenten in München unter König Ludwig I. von Bayern (von 1826 bis 1844): Werdegang und späteres Wirken beim Wiederaufbau Griechenlands (Ausländerbeirat der Stadt München, 1995). He was from Chios and his father was murdered when he was only 11 years old. He had 6 brothers and sisters who moved to Livorno and then Marseille (Parker Agelasto).

1871 England census: 22 Pembridge Crescent household headed by J M Agelasto, 35, merchant, b. Syros, Greece; wife Aglaia, 29, b. Marseille; sons Michel, 5; Pendley, 4; daughters Katherine, 3; Mary, 2 mos., Alexandra, 11 months; all b. London; father Michael P., 68, retired merchant; mother Marie M., 57, both b. Chios [Scio, Turkey]; & 6 servants.

Buried:
It is likely she is buried with her husband, in the tomb to which he was moved a year after her death. She was initially buried midi carré 1, ter grec, no. 2.

Died:
DOD from death certificate. Argenti incorrectly says 28 Feb 1893.

Notes:

Held hostage and hanged by the Turks in the Massacres of Chios.

Pandely married Loula (Stephanos) Ziffo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Parembli was among the Chiots held hostage and hanged by the Turks, 23 Apr 1822. Uncertain if this is he.

Ioannis married Arghyro Damiano. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]