Paul (Stamati) Agelasto

Notes:

Testament: Paul's original testament was drawn up at the notary's office in 1845, with 4 witnesses. A small additional chapter, dated 8 Apr 1855, was signed by Paul himself. A concluding chapter, dated 22 Mar 1856, describes an arrangement between Loula Agelasto and her brothers Eustratios and Lukas, confirmed "after their father's death". This means that Paul died sometime between those two dates, most probably shortly before the last one, i.e. Feb/March 1856.
From the method Paul used in distributing his fortune among his children, it seems that Eustratios was his eldest son and already of full age in 1845. Lukas and Stamati must have been still under age at that time as the sums of money willed to them had to be given to their legal guardians and invested in favor of the two children. We don't know how old Loula, Paul's daughter, was in 1845. The fact that Paul willed to her his whole land ownership indicates that she was not married and that this property was meant as a dowry. But if she was still a child, or a teenager, or a young woman, remains unclear.
The will indicates that Paul had still another daughter, obviously older than Loula and perhaps even older than Eustratios, his first son. He willed a small sum of money "to his daughter Maria, married to John Z[orzis?] Mitarakis." [Argenti has a John Mitarakis married to a Maria (Sinadino), a generation or two later, perhaps this John's grandson.] -- George Agelastos (2014)




Birth:
Residence: at birth, probably Chios.

Died:
DOD suggested by annotation to his testament.

Family/Spouse: Batoliá Mavrogordato. Batoliá (daughter of Zannis (Lucas) Mavrogordato and Oriettou (Alexander) Vlasto) was born about 1805-1810? in Chios, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Loula (Paul) Agelasto
2. Eustratios (Paul) Agelasto was born before 1827 in Greece.
3. Maria (Paul) Agelasto was born before 1827 in Greece.
4. Stamati (Paul) Agelasto was born after 1827 in Greece.
5. Lukas (Paul) Agelasto was born after 1827 in Greece.

Notes:

We believe Argenti omitted one or more of his children. We have included another son, Eustratios. (Michael Agelasto, Georgios Agelastos)

Stamati married unknown (unknown) [Agelasto]. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mentioned in the Latin Codex for Chios in 1746. Strange that he had sons Pandia and Pandely who each had a son Michael.(Christopher Long)

Michael married [Agelasto]. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mentioned in the documents of the Evangelical School of Smyrna in 1743, 1764 by Zolotas. He and his wife pay at the Moundon Monastery to have their names included, along with that of Ioannis Agelasto in the Friday evening and Saturday morning memorial sermons (Codex of Monastery of Moundon, about 1746).

Argenti gives him the title "Chadzi". Chatzi derives from the arab word hajj, which means the pilgrimage to Mecca. The Christians´pilgrimage was not to Mecca, of course, but to the Holy Places in Palestine. For an orthodox Greek it was, in former times, a great honor to be able to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Places and, to make things perfect, to be baptized in the Jordan River, like Jesus. This made him then a Chatzi and he was so proud of it that he added this term to his name. Some put it in front of their Christian name ("Chatzi Dimitri Agelasto"), others combined it with their surname. Even in our days there are countless Greeks with surnames of the sort "Chatzikonstantinou", "Chatziapostolou" etc. (George Agelasto)

Pandelis married Maria [Agelasto]. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mentioned in the documents of the Evangelical School of Smyrna in 1743.