Pandia (Themistocles) Petrocochino^[1]

1863 - 1938  (74 years)

• Name	Pandia (Themistocles) Petrocochino
  Birth	30 Oct 1863	Bradford, Yorkshire, England UK
  Christening	12 Jan 1864	Manchester, Lancashire, England UK
  	At home; Entry: 191(51)/066; Godparent: Aspasia J. C. Zygomala (née Petrocochino); priest: Vasilios Moros, Presbyter: M. Oeconomos. [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Jan 1938	Paris, Île-de-France, France
  	Effects in England valued at £65 13s 6d, administered at London, 29 June 1938 by William Arthur Ward-Jones, solicitor/attorney (of widow), went to widow (UK National Probate Calendar Indexes, 1853-1943 and London Gazette 15 Jul 1938).
  Notes	According to David Gasforth-Bles, Pandia was known as Prince Petrocochino and married to the daughter of David Bles the Dutch Court painter (1821-99). (Christopher Long) He was a partner in Stavert, Zigomala & Co, merchants, Manchester and elsewhere when it was dissolved 30 Sep 1893. Afterwards with George (Stamatios) Frangopulo, his father, Themistocles Pandia Petrocokino, and others he continued "the business under the same style as heretofore on their own account." (London Gazette 19 Dec 1893) He and his father left the firm 30 Sep 1897. Residence, Paris, France: 1900, rue de Sou. Tay 5; 1938, 21 Boulevard Beausejour, Paris. He, his father and/or his brothers Ambrouzios, and John are the likely Mr. Petrocochino who was a member of the Manchester Cretan Committee ("The Cretan Question," Manchester Guardian, 15 Mar 1897, p 7). 1871 England census for 4 North Park Road, Bradford, Yorkshire: Themistokles Petrocokino, 44, head, merchant; his wife Merope, 31, both b. Greece; daughters Franga, 12, Esmeralda, 11; Aspasia, 10; Julia, 8; and sons Pandia, 7; Ambrose, 5; John T., 4, all born Bradford; and 6 servants.
  Person ID	I1864	Negroponte-Agelasto
  Last Modified	18 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	Themistocles Pandia Anthony (Pandia) Petrocochino,   b. 12 Mar 1824, Andros, Cyclades, Greece d. 16 Oct 1900, boulevard des Capucines 12, Paris 9ème, Île-de-France, France (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Marigo (Ambrouzis) Mavrogordato,   b. 06 Mar 1839, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece d. 15 Oct 1912, Northcliffe, Broughton Park, Manchester, England UK (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	07 Jan 1857	Manchester, Lancashire, England UK
  	Entry: 083/037; Sponsor: Aikaterina Mavrogordato (wife of Scarlato Michael Mavrogordato); best man: Leonidas Chrysoveloni; matron of honor: Ioanna Ralli (wife of Theodore Ralli); witnesses: Scarlato Michael Mavrogordato and John Copeland Zygomala; priest Daniel Petroulias. [3]
  Family ID	F797	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henriette (David) Bles,   b. 20 Dec 1873, The Hague, Netherlands d. Abt 1947, [France] (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	15 Mar 1894	The Hague, Netherlands
  	Marriage Act 214, 15 Mar 1894, The Hague, Netherlands between Pandia Petrocokino, 35, no occupation, son of Themistocles Pandia Petrocokino, merchant and banker, and Merope Mavrogordato; and Henriette Bles, 34, daughter of David Joseph Bles, painter and Esther [Bles]; witnesses included David Joseph Bles, painter, 72; Johan Gram, literary, 60; Charles Rochussen, painter, 79; Johannes Gerardus Smits, painter, 71.
  Documents		Petrocokino - Bles marriage certificate Marriage Act 214, 15 Mar 1894, The Hague, Netherlands
  Family ID	F819	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Jan 2013

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 30 Oct 1863 - Bradford, Yorkshire, England UK Christening - 12 Jan 1864 - Manchester, Lancashire, England UK Marriage - 15 Mar 1894 - The Hague, Netherlands Death - 28 Jan 1938 - Paris, Île-de-France, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Sedgley House, Sedgley Park, Queens Drive, Prestwich, England Themistocles and Marigo Petrocokino lived in Sedgley House with their children from 1875 to 1900, acquiring it from its previous owner William Pearson. In 1903, the house was bought by the Faithful Companions of Jesus, a teaching order of nuns. In 1979 it was acquired by the Greater Manchester Council for the police training college and is currently used as a conference and training center (see brochure). It is a Grade II listed building.
  		Eldon Lodge, 13 Eldon Place, Bradford, England photo 2009; Themistocles and Marigo Petrocokino family lived here in 1866. Today, a Grade II listed building in the Eldon Place Conservation Area: "Circa 1840-50 detached 3-storey town house with 3 bay front of thinly coursed sand-stone ashlar. Rusticated quoins. Moulded sill courses. Hipped stone slate roof, with deep modillion bracket eaves...(architctural description continues in the Manningham Conservation Areas Proposal, pp 275-298).
  		Park Court, 3 Park Road, Bradford, England photo 2009; at least from 1870-1871 the Themistocles Petrocochino family lived at 3-4 North Park Road, Bradford. It is now the Park Court complex, within the North Park Road Conservation Area, part of Bradford's preservation initiative.
  		Pandia T Petrocochino detail from a Petrocochino family portrait by T.J. Barker 1872.
  		Themistocles & Marigo Petrocochino family at croquet Several years after the game was invented. The parents, then right: Ambrose, Franga, Ioannis, Smaragda, Aspasia, Pandia and Julia. Courtesy the Anthony Murray family collection. Painted by T.J. Barker 1872. The artist Thomas Jones Barker (b. Bath, 19 Apr 1813- d. London 27 Mar 1882), was a Victorian genre painter who worked in both England and France. The son of Thomas Barker of Bath, landscape and genre painter, T.J. Barker was a leading exponent of 'Battle' painting in Britain. Barker the elder painted "The Massacre of the Inhabitants of Scio by the Turks" (1825), a fresco painted on the walls of the picture gallery in his home, Doric House in Bath.

  
  

• Sources

  [S127] 1871 England Census. [S68] Kyriakos Metaxas, editor, The Greek Gazette, (London, England), May 1996, 11. Baptism-No:0152 [S68] Kyriakos Metaxas, editor, The Greek Gazette, (London, England), May 1996, 11. Marriage-No:0012