Demosthenes (Aristides) Pateraki

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The 1888 and 1889 Galveston, Texas city directory lists him as boarding with A.D. Voisin; his business is given as D. Paterachi & Co., the north side Avenue L between 20th and 21st street (according to the 1890-1891 directory).

A Demesther Paterachi, a Greek national aged 20, was aboard The China from Liverpool to New York Oct 1869, with Alexander Michael and Polyxene, 7 months after bearing her second child and 13 months before delivering her third child.

Occupation, cotton industry, Memphis, Tn: 1872-1882 cotton clerk buyer, with A. M. Agelasto, 334-336 Front and 12 Union.

Residence, Memphis, Tn: 1876-1882, 283 Hernando; 1877, 191 Georgia St.

1893 Galveston, TX directory lists Demosthenes Paterachi, cotton buyer, office 2022 Strand, r. 2024 25th, cor Ave Q.].

Name:
Or Paterachi.

Died:
The Texas Death Index for this date lists him twice (two different files), for both Galveston and Harris Counties.

Buried:
Section EA, Lot 086. No Marker. Information courtesy Find A Grave website.

Family/Spouse: Blanche (Antoine) Voisin. Blanche (daughter of Antoine Dufourget Voisin and Maria Amanda Levandis) was born on 31 Oct 1865 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; died on 16 Feb 1936 in Galveston County, Texas USA; was buried in Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Galveston, Galveston County, Texas USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
possibly a daughter or sister listed in 1884 Memphis directory: Paterachi Clara Miss, r ns Walker av, 1st e of Hernando rd.

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He is the brother-in-law of Alexander Michael and Polyxene Agelasto.

Travel: with A.M. Agelasto, sailed on the Scotia from New York to Liverpool (New York Times, 19 May 1864); on the Abyssinia NYC to Liverpool (New York Times, 2 May 1875); with his wife on the Germanic NYC to Liverpool, (The New York Times, 20 Jul 1878).

The New York Times, 2 May 1875 reports as passenger on the Abyssinia sailing for Liverpool, A. Paterachi.

Their nephew, Michael Agelasto, reports they had five children.

He possibly had a namesake son (or nephew) born about 1845 in Smyrna and emigrated to Syros, Greece, in 1860. This Aristide lived in the US from 1865-1875 and was naturalized 15 July 1874. He worked in New York and New Orleans in cotton. He married Lucy Otis (born 11 Sep 1860) on 11 Sep 1878 and they lived in Alexandria, Egypt, where he continued in the cotton trade until his death on 24 Aug 1900. They had three children: John (b 31 Dec 1883, Syros, Greece), Flora (b 10 Dec 1884, Alexandria) and Victoria (5 Oct 1895, Alexandria - Aug 1982, Sarasota, Florida).

Between 1870-1910 Aristides Paterachi was a member of the New York Produce Exchange.

1874: Paterachi A., business manager, A. M. Agelasto [cotton buyer], rooms Magnolia Block, w4, with A.M. Agelasto and D. Paterachi [perhaps his son].

Name:
Or Paterachi.

Aristides married Marigo (Michael) Agelasto. Marigo (daughter of Michael (Pandely) Agelasto and Maria (Ioannis) Parembli) was born about 1834 in Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The New York Times, 20 Jul 1878 reports as passengers on the Germanic sailing for Liverpool, A. Paterachi and Mrs. Paterachi.

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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]

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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.

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

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

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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]