Michel Demosthenes (Demosthenes) Agelasto^{[1, 2]}

1860 - 1915  (54 years)

• Name	Michel Demosthenes (Demosthenes) Agelasto
  Birth	12 Jul 1860	allées des Capucines 45, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France
  	Signatory witnesses on the birth certificate include Eustradio Petrocochino and Theophile Mettze, merchants.
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Feb 1915	Paris, Île-de-France, France
  	The Marseille birth certificate is annotated to say he died in Paris, but a record cannot be found there. Of fragile health, he fell and broke a leg. After an apparently successful operation, his injury did not heal correctly. During a subsequent operation, he died from a blood clot.
  Burial	04 Mar 1915	St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France
  	Cemetery 1915 register midi carré 2, ter grec, no. 10. Funeral at the Greek Church, Paris, 3 Mar 1915, 9:30 a.m.
  Notes	Residence, Paris: 1885 - 1886, 62 Boulevard de Clichy; 1897, 28 rue Jouffroy; 1912, avenue Malakoff 148, 16e (with his father). One M. Agelasto was employed at 1 Place Centrale (1892-3) and at 9 rue de la Republic (1894), the latter being the same address as the office of his uncle, Demetrius Michel Agelasto (1884, the year before he died). A photo of mother and infant, circa 1860 by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri in the collection of the Musee d’Orsay, Paris, is possibly Mrs. Demosthenes Agelasto née Arghyro Sechiari, and her son Michel. On the Electoral Lists, Paris, France (1912) Michel Agelasto, 28 rue Jouffroy, Paris, member of Société des études historiques, from 1894 (Revue de la Société des études historiques, Paris, 1897. Attended sister’s wedding in 1885.
  Person ID	I131	Agelasto
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2015

  
  

  Father	Demosthenes (Michael) Agelasto,   b. 05 Mar 1831, rue Canonge 8, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France d. 16 Dec 1912, avenue Malakoff, Paris 16ème, Île-de-France, France (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Arghyro (Georges) Sechiari,   b. 30 Oct 1837, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey d. 28 Jun 1916, Paris, Île-de-France, France (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	08 Jan 1859	Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
  	Witnesses included Michel Petrocochino, 65, merchant, allees de Meilhan 6; Demetrius Agelasto, 30, merchant, allees des Capucines 49; Etienne Sechiari, 48, merchant, allees des Capucines 10; Paul Rodocanachi, 46, merchant, allees des Capucines 12.
  Notes	Agelasto-Sechiari marriage alliance is depicted on a web of Greek marriage alliances, 1849-1876. [3]
  Documents		Agelasto - Sechiari 1859 marriage Civil registration records, Marseille
  		Agelasto - Sechiari 1859 marriage, Marseille
  Family ID	F51	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gertrude Betty Adelheid Milde,   b. 20 Mar 1875, Konigsberg/Kaliningrad, Russia d. 24 Dec 1955, Basel/Bale, Switzerland (Age 80 years)
  Children	+ 1. Gertrude-Micheline (Michel) Agelasto,   b. 12 Jan 1907, rue Daguerre 92, Paris 14ème, Île-de-France, France d. 23 May 1988, Collonge-Bellerive, Geneva, Switzerland (Age 81 years)
  Family ID	F621	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Aug 2014

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 12 Jul 1860 - allées des Capucines 45, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Death - 28 Feb 1915 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Burial - 04 Mar 1915 - St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Mrs. Demosthenes Agelasto and son Michel (possibly) The photographer Eugene Disderi invented the carte de vista. He developed technology to print eight negative views at one time on one sheet. These were then cut and pasted on the small boards. The uncut version appears here. (Parker Agelasto)
  		avenue Malakoff 148, Paris 16e, France Michel Agelasto lived here with his father in 1912, when the latter died (photo 2009).
  		avenue Malakoff 148, Paris 16e, France
  		Boulevard de Clichy 62, Paris 9e, France Demosthenes and Arghyro Agelasto lived here with their adult children Michel and Marie around 1886 (photo 2009).
  		Boulevard de Clichy 62, Paris 9e, France
  		allées Léon Gambetta 22, Marseille, France The building now houses the Moroccan consulate; Demosthenes and Arghyro Agelasto lived at allees des Capucines 22, where their son George was born in 1876; photo 2009; see note on street numbering.
  		Mme Agelasto assise avec son enfant, en huit poses en 1860 André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, collection musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
  		Michel Demosthenes Agelasto Photo courtesy Lucette Ostier-Barbier
  		Michel Demosthenes Agelasto Photo courtesy Lucette Ostier-Barbier

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Michel Agelasto Birth Certificate
  		Michel Petrocochino's funeral announcement His parents' names -- he was listed only as 'their child' -- were included in Michel Petrocochino's funeral announcement along with those of other members of the ex-pat Chiot families living in Marseille
  		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
  		Michel D. Agelasto death & funeral notice in Le Temps [Paris], 2 Mar 1915, p. 4
  		Reflections on my Family Mentioned in an essay by Gertrude Agelasto Barbier.

  
  

  Headstones » Slide Show		Michel Demosthenes, Michel Pandia Agelasto family tomb, St Pierre Cemetery, Marseille
  		Michel D Agelasto - tomb inscription Cimetière St Pierre, Marseille, France (photo by George Vassiadis Sep 2008).
  		Demosthenes M Agelasto family tomb Cimetière St Pierre, Marseille, France (photo by George Vassiadis Sep 2008).

  
  

• Sources

  [S119] Philip P. Argenti, Argenti 1955, (London Oxford University Press). Included in Philip Argenti's Agelasto family tree, number 131. [S77] Gertrude Agelasto, Une Enfance. [S99] Michel Calapodis, LA COMMUNAUTÉ GRECQUE À MARSEILLE, (L'Harmattan (link)), 196.