Arghyro (Theodore) Ralli

Arghyro married Bernardos (Panaghi) Melissinos on 27 Jun 1912 in Athens, Attica, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence: 1870, 12 West 45th St., NY, NY, shared with John M. Calvocoressi.

Christened:
Baptism registered on Syros; date conflicts with Argenti's DOB

Theodore married Hypatia (Matthew) Calvocoressi on 14 Nov 1869 in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey. Hypatia (daughter of Matthew (Zannis) Calvocoressi and Arghyro (Zannis) Rodocanachi) was born on 31 Jul 1848 in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey; died about 19 Jul 1875 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England UK; was buried on 21 Jul 1875 in Smithdown Road Cemetery, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
The death of Hypatia Ralli, b. abt 1849, was registered Jul-Aug-Sep 1875 in West Derby, Lancashire, v 8b, p 358.

Buried:
Folio Entry C/N Section Grave Class
669 13367 N N 322 & 323 352 CEM 9/2/2

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Married:
14 Feb 1869 according to Strudza

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According to his grandson John (Matthew) Ziffo, he was "the biggest shipowner in Greece [around 1850], owning about 20 sailing vessels, probably not larger than 600 or 700 tons each. They traded between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Adriatic ports: often venturing as far as London and Liverpool, carrying wheat, barley and other grain from Russia and Rumania, which countries were then the only ones that supplied, in large quantities, Western Europe with her requirements...Then the crash came; the Crimean War which on a smaller scale had the same disastrous after-effects as the Great War, and thousands were ruined, amongst others, John Ralli."

Residence: -1822 Chios; 1824 Athens; 1826-1828 Trieste; 1835-1845 Syros; 1854 Trieste.

Name:
Named Jean in his son Pandia's death certificate.

Zannis married Cornelia (Dimitrios) Sevastopoulos on 06 May 1823 in Trieste, Italy/Austria. Cornelia (daughter of Dimitrios (Emmanuel) Sevastopoulos and Maria (Constantine) Negroponte) was born in 1806 in Chios, Greece; died on 18 Apr 1841 in Trieste, Italy/Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Name:
Called Cornelie Sevastopulo in her son Pandia's death certificate.

Died:
Argenti says 18 Mar 1851. The 1841 date is from John Ziffo, their grandson.

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Occupation: Merchant of Chios

According to David Calvocoressi and his father Peter, Matthew was briefly taken into slavery and was either redeemed or escaped following the Massacres of Chios. Argenti records his mother as Angerou (no surname).

According to Matthew, recorded by his grandson Pantias (John) Calvocoressi some 60 years later, Matthew was about 15 years old in 1822 and referred to a half-brother Pandely and younger siblings: Mavroudi, Zambelou, Zorzis and Argentou.

He, his son Leonidas Matthew Calvocoressi and Ambrose Paul Rodocanachi traded as merchants, at 95 Bishopsgate Street, London, as L. Rodocanachi and Co.; and at Constantinople, as M. Z. Calvocoressi, until dissolved 15 Mar 1885 (London Gazette 2 Jun 1885)

He and his sons Leonidas Matthew Calvocoressi and John Matthew Calvocoressi were partners as L. Rodocanachi and Co., Merchants, Crosby House, 95 Bishopsgate Street. London, until dissolved 1 Jan 1881 (London Gazette 7 Jan 1881).

M. Kalvo-doresis is listed among twenty individuals or businesses who met 26 Apr 1843 to write the Constitution of the Greek Community of Manchester.

Matthew married Arghyro (Zannis) Rodocanachi on 10 Nov 1841 in Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England UK. Arghyro (daughter of Zannis (Matthew) Rodocanachi and Despina (Ioannis) Tsitsekli) was born about 1820 in Chios, Greece; died on 13 Apr 1891 in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Catsiyannis says she spent most of her married life in Constantinople. (Christopher Long)

Birth:
DOB according to the Pedigree Resource File of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS).

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Married:
Marriage Witnesses: Stephen and Maria S. Franghiadi; Narkissos Morphinos presiding; entry 6.

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Two children of Stephanos Ralli & Marietta Mavrogordato -- Ambrouzis and his sister Marietta -- are on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree.

Birth:
1732, by Sturdza

Ambrouzis married Despina (Dimitrios) Maximo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Argenti says her parents were Demitrios Perris Maximo and Vierou Vlasto; Sturdza says Antonios Maximo and Vierou Vlasto.

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Died:
Held hostage and hanged by the Turks in the Massacres of Chios "together with about 80 members of the richest and best families in the island." (His great-grandson John Ziffo)

Dimitrios married Maria (Constantine) Negroponte. Maria (daughter of Constantine (Zannis) Negroponte and Arghyro [Negroponte]) was born in 1779 in Chios, Greece; died on 28 Sep 1849 in Trieste, Italy/Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He had another son, Dimitrios (Zannis) Calvocoressi, whose son, Antonios (Dimitrios) Calvocoressi, is a spouse on the main Agelasto tree.

Died:
1826, Constantinople, according to Sturdza.

Zannis married Battou [Calvocoressi]. Battou died in 1853. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He may well have died before or during the masscares on Chios since his children appear to have fled to Trieste without him. (Christopher Long)

Zannis married Despina (Ioannis) Tsitsekli. Despina (daughter of Ioannis Tsitsekli and Angeliki Eumorfopoulos) was born in Chios, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Tsitzeckli.