Eirene (Ambrouzis) Damalas

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Identified as Jacques Damala's younger sister by American author and journalist Frank Harris in his autobiography My Life and Loves, Chapter VI: Love in Athens, p. 282 ff. "Harris had met the Damala family in the summer of 1880, when they were all residents at the Hotel d'Athènes, in Athens. Harris and Eirene Damala (referred to in the book as "Mme M.") had a brief romantic/sexual affair, which Harris describes very graphically in his book. Eirene was estranged from her Scottish husband, who had left her and returned to England. Harris also befriended Aristides Damala and the two became even closer friends when they met again in Paris, some time later." (wikipedia).

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Residence: at DOD, allees des Capucines 65, Marseille, France.

Occupation: merchant.

His death certificate gives his mother's name as Catherina Ralli.

Mayor of Ermoupolis, Syros, Piraeus and later Athens

Ambrosios Z Damalas, 26, b. Chios, unmarried, having arrived Syros 1829, merchant, swore allegiance to the Greek state at The Orthodox Church of Christ's Transfiguration (Metamorphosis), Ermoupolis, Syros, on 17 Sep 1835.

Ambrouzis married Calliope (Lucas) Ralli on 29 Nov 1845 in Piraeus, Attica, Greece. Calliope (daughter of Lucas (Dimitrios) Ralli and Despina (Paul) Rodocanachi) was born on 06 Jan 1829 in Aegina, Saronic Islands, Greece; died on 14 Feb 1891 in Athens, Attica, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary Ann Chadwell says "a Mrs Damala left Marseilles 18 Apr 1863 for Syra [Syros] where her husband is the préfet or mayor". (Christopher Long)

Ioannis married Catherine (Nicolas) Petrocochino. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mayor of Piraeus, Greece. Stephanos Th. Xeno's illustrated book 'The World Exhibition' (London 1852) about the 1851 Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, was dedicated to Lucas Ralli, now in the collection of St Sophia, London. (Christopher Long)

Member of the Executive Committee which attempted the liberation of Chios in 1827. Grand Officer of the Order of the Saviour, Greece. Lived on Syros and at Piraeus.

Committed to improving the educational system and opened the first Boy's grammar school in Piraeus. Wrote to Constantine Ionides in London asking for help with these projects.

He is likely to have signed a letter to the provisory Greek Parliament in 1825 demanding it include a Chiot deputy.

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

Residence: -1822 Chios; 1925-1829 Syros; 1842 Athens.

Lucas D. Ralli, 38, married, b. Chios, arrived Syros 182?, merchant, swore allegiance to the Greek state on 27 Nov 1834 at the Holy Cathedral Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour Christ (Metamorphosis), Ermoupolis, Syros.

Died:
The 1878-79 death index in Vital Statistics, Piraeus, Greece, lists Lukas Ralli, p 744.

Lucas married Despina (Paul) Rodocanachi in 1827. Despina (daughter of Paul (Matthew) Rodocanachi and Arghyro (Loucas) Franghiadi) was born on 24 Jun 1805 in Chios, Greece; died on 10 Oct 1880 in Piraeus, Attica, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
This union is cited in a list of 17 marriage alliances that connected Ralli Bros employees in India with the Rallis through intermarriage.

This marriage was the model in Dimitri Vikelas' Loukis Laris, according to Philip Chrissovelonis.

Dimitrios married Catherine (Pericles) Negroponte. Catherine (daughter of Pericles (Loucas) Negroponte and Franga [Negroponte]) died on 12 Nov 1846 in Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
This union is cited in a list of 17 marriage alliances that connected Ralli Bros employees in India with the Rallis through intermarriage.

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Died:
Argenti claims he was hanged by the Turks on Chios in April 1822 but Helen Long's 'Greek Fire' believes he was one of the hostages in the Kastro who was released. (Christopher Long)

Paul married Arghyro (Loucas) Franghiadi. Arghyro (daughter of Loucas (Zorzis) Franghiadi) was born in 1785 in Chios, Greece; died on 19 Jul 1855 in Trieste, Italy/Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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After the massacres on Chios in 1822 she went to Syros and then to Piraeus. (Christopher Long)