Andreas Nicolas (Nicolas) Argenti

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Occupation: merchant.

Residence, Marseille, France: 1830, allees de Meilhan 51; 1837, allees de Meilhan 6; 1838, allees de Meilhan 8; 1842, rue Senac 2; 1843-63, allees des Capucines 18/allee de Meilhan 18.

Signatory witness, Marseille: 1830 birth of Etienne Petros Schilizzi; 1833 marriage of George (Demetrius) Zizinia and Batou (Thomas) Galatti; 1838 birth of Angélique Erato (Georges) Zizinia; 1842 birth of Marie Pénélope (Georges) Zizinia and births of twin sisters Marigo (Petros) Vlasto and Angelique (Petros) Vlasto; 1846 birth of Ménandre Périclès Zizinia; 1848 wedding of Cleopatre (Georges) Zizinia and Theodore (Emmanuel) Rodocanachi; 1849 Ralli-Rodocanachi marriage; 1850 marriage of Aglaïa (Georges) Zizinia; 1851 marriage of his cousin Leonidas - Julia Ralli; 1854 marriage of Michael Sevastopoulos & Smaragda Zizinia;1857 birth of Virginie Sechiari; 1865 marriage of Pandia A Ralli & Jenni Rodocanachi.

According to the 1841 Marseille census the Argenti household at rue Senac 2 consisted of Andre, merchant; wife Julia; Nicolas; Alexandre; Poulatei [Pandely]; Fanni [Theophanie]; and four domestic servants. The 1856 census reports the family, now at allees des Capucines, 18, comprised Andre, merchant; wife Julia Ralli; Theodora Galati, 75 [his mother, a martyr's widow]; Paulymini, 12 1/2 [Polymnia]; Julie, 10 1/2; a governess and four servants. Lived next to Augustus Stephanos & Sozonga Stephanos Ralli, allees des Capucines 14.

Andre Argenti was among the twenty-one founding members of the Greek church, Marseille, in 1836, a group which also included Paraschewa Sechiari, Emmanuel Rodocanachi, George D. Zizinia, Michel Dromocaiti, Michel Petrocochino [probably Michel Dimitrios Petrocochino, rather than Michel Andre Petrocochino], George M. Zizinia, Michel Agelasto, Jean Baltazzi, George Petrocochino and George Grimanelli (Echinard).

Resided in Marseille since 1822. French naturalization (see particulars)

He is likely being referred to as "An Argenti (related to the Ralli family by marriage) was in charge in Marseilles..." in regards to the Ralli merchant network.

Married to Julia Ralli, he was head of the Ralli merchant house in Marseille, under the name of Ralli Schilizzi Argenti.

Ralli Schilizzi & Argenti integrated Auguste Ralli…and his two sons-in-law Andre Nicholas Argenti and Pierre Emmanuel Schilizzi.

Andreas married Loula (Alexander) Ralli on 31 Oct 1832 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. Loula was born in Jun 1808 in Chios, Greece; died in Dec 1870; was buried on 28 Dec 1870 in Manchester, Lancashire, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Another son, Nicolas, is on the main Agelasto tree.

1. Polymnia (Andreas) Argenti was born on 05 Nov 1843 in allées des Capucines 18, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France; died on 11 Aug 1921 in rue Paradis 310, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France; was buried on 13 Aug 1921 in St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
2. Julie (Andreas) Argenti was born on 05 Apr 1845 in Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece; died on 06 Dec 1921 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France.