Zannis (Theodore) Negroponte

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Sturdza claims (surely wrongly) that he is the brother of Theodore (Ambrosios) rather than his son. (Christopher Long)

Occupation: merchant

Zannis married Catherine (Ulysses) Meimarides about 1897 in Athens, Attica, Greece. Catherine (daughter of Ulysses Meimarides) was born in Tatavla, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey; died in 1891 in Athens, Attica, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
Date is from tomb

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Residence: 1859, 1868, Galata, Constantinople [his marriage certificate says Galatz, Turkey]; at DOD, boulevard Malesherbes 133, Paris 17e, France.

Occupation: property owner, merchant

Negropontes, 38 rue de Lisbonne, Paris, was a donating member, from 1890, Association for the Encouragement of Greek Studies, Paris, France. The listing in the Revue des etudes grecques v 3 1890: Negropontes, 97 Bd Malesherbes, p LVII.

Bankruptcy closure due to insufficient activity: Negroponte (Th.), merchant, cours Pierre-Puget, 24, Jugement du 27 juin 1878. Archives commerciales de la France. Journal hebdomadaire, 7 Jul 1878, p. 874

Birth:
DOB according to date given on marriage certificate. Argenti says 20 Mar 1831. Sturdza says 1842.

Died:
Death notice of M Negroponte, 57 boul Malesherbe 133, appeared in Journal des débats politiques et littéraires [Paris], 21 Nov 1891, p 4.

Theodore married Maria Euphrosyne (Iannis) Baltazzi on 26 Nov 1868 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. Maria (daughter of Ioannis (Evangelos) Baltazzi and Aikaterine (George) Petrocochino) was born on 31 Jan 1848 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France; died on 07 Feb 1933 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; was buried in St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ulysse Negroponte, Braila [Romania], owned 600 shares, Societe hellenique anonyme d'assurances generales la Nationale, L'Argus (Paris), 22 Nov 1891, p. 740.

U.J. Negropontes, contributed 50 fr. into Braila [Romania] Martinique disaster relief fund.

Ulysse Negroponte gave 40,000 francs toward the construction of the Greek Church, rue Bizet, Paris Le Temps [Paris], 11 Nov 1912, p. 3.

The family manufactured cardboard at Grozeschti [Iaşi County, Romania], firm est. 1888, employing 100 workers, Revue de la papeterie française et étrangère, 1901, p. 624; 1903, p. 1903.

Ulysse Negroponte is among the 15 bankers who signed an agreement with the Ottoman government in Nov 1879 to ensure sufficient capital, A. Du Velay, Essai sur l'histoire financière de la Turquie : depuis le règne du sultan Mahmoud II jusqu'à nos jours, Paris, 1903, p. 400.

U.J. Negropontes, banquier, Kulchuk Millet Han 34-36, Galata, Annuaire oriental (Constantinople), 1891, pp. 385, 465.

Buried:
Funeral at the Greek Church, 5 rue Georges-Bizet, Paris, 25 Mar 1914, 2:30 p.m. Death announcement in Le Gaulois, 25 Mar 1914, p. 3.

Ulysses married Sophia (George) Zarifi on 02 Jan 1864 in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey. Sophia (daughter of George (Ioannis) Zarifi and Eleni (Dimitrios) Zafiropoulo) was born on 24 Mar 1848 in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey; died on 07 Jun 1923 in rue de la Faisanderie 106, Paris 16ème, Île-de-France, France; was buried on 13 Jun 1923 in Ancien cimetière de Boulogne-sur-Seine, Val de Seine Paris 92100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Menelaus Negroponte was the Constantinople merchant who created an eponymous scandal in Britain. M.J. Negroponte had corresponded with William Ewert Gladstone in 1877, when the latter was in opposition, in between stints as four-time prime minister. During what became known as "The Negroponte Affair" Gladstone was accused of fomenting Greeks living under Ottoman rule into sedition and the affair dragged on into a libel case against the press in which Gladstone testified. Except for his writing letters to Gladstone and to The Times of London (to explain, in fact to further complicate), Negroponte was not otherwise involved; but he had effectively created a political hellstorm, consciously or not. He, like Gladstone, was misrepresented and demonized in the press. Briefly covered in the French press: Le XIXe siècle (Paris), 2 Feb 1878, p. 1; Le Temps [Paris], 28 Aug 1877, p. 3; 26 Sep 1877; 29 Mar 1881, p. 3; Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 26 Sep 1877;


Supporting Gladstone and treating Negroponte as an unfortunate victim, one newspaper opined: "As for M. Menelaus Negroponte, who has been rendered very miserable by the fuss which has been made about the letter, all who know him are amazed and amused that he should for the moment be regarded as a conspirator. He is a comfortable and rather 'crummy' corn merchant, of conservative tendencies, and with a correct taste in cereals." (Liverpool Mercury 6 Jun 1879).

Mr. Negroponte, a Constantinople merchant, was aboard the Rethymo when it sank on the Bosphorus (The Times [London], 31 Dec 1874). He was rescued and his £T 4,200 was retrieved.

30 Aug 1878: Menelaos I. Negroponte, 40, born Chios, married, merchant, swore allegiance to the Greek government at the town hall, Ermoupolis.

Likely appears in the Boudouris Family Archive: Merchantile Correspondence (1879-1882); F. 25.4 (1882); Letters [between Boudouris and] A.E.Mavrogordatos, D.Ch. Pestemalzoglu (Trieste), N.V.Kavour (Syros), M. Negrepontis, S. Evripides, D. and M. Lenos (Constantinople), Van der Zee (Smyrna) and others; Merchantile Correspondence (1883-1886); F. 26.1 (1883); Letters [between Boudouris and] D.Ch. Pestemalozoglu (Smyrna), A.E. Mavrogordatos, Men. Negrepontis, G. Flokos (Limni), N.V. Kavour, W.Sastour, I. Marikopoulos and others.

Name:
On the birth certificate of his son, his name appears as Mihelas Negropontes.

Menelaus married Eleni (Andreas) Vagliano on 16 Jan 1872 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. Eleni (daughter of Andreas (Athanasios) Vagliano and Euphrosyne (Iorgo) Melas) was born on 17 Apr 1854 in Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey; died on 16 Mar 1927 in Athens, Attica, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Student: paleographie

Jean Négroponte moved his subscription to Journal des débats politiques et littéraires [Paris]: 1 Sep 1894, Folkestone [Kent]; 11 Sep 1894, London; 1 Nov 1894, Athènes.

Birth:
Argenti says 1872.

Buried:
Cemetery 1897 register folio 263 midi carré 1, ter grec, no. 14, from Paris.

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Residence at DOD: 135 Calea Victoria, Bucarest, Romania.

Birth:
DOB 1 Jan 1870 according to cemetery records and death certificate.

Catherine married Count Hector (Dimitrios) Economo on 21 Jun 1893 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Hector (son of Dimitrios Economo and Polyxene Bertoumi) was born on 20 Mar 1864 in Trieste, Italy/Austria; died on 18 Apr 1924 in Paris 16ème, Île-de-France, France; was buried on 20 Apr 1924 in Ancien cimetière de Boulogne-sur-Seine, Val de Seine Paris 92100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Residence: 1908, 78 avenue Malakoff, Paris 16, France.

Paris 1900 World Expo prize: Negroponte (M. Georges), Roumanie, received a gold medal in the Produits agricoles alimentaires d'origine vegetale; Negroponte (G.U.), Roumanie, a silver medal in the Produits alimentaires d'origine viticole: vins et eaux-de-vie de vins; Négropontes (S.U) [sic], Roumanie, received a grand prix in the Sirops et liqueurs; spiritueux divers; alcools d'industrie.

Mme Sophie Negroponte, Mlle Negroponte, M & Mme Georges Negroponte were among the guests attending a reception in the honor of M. Venizelos on his Paris visit Le Gaulois, 17 Jan 1914, p. 2.

He owned a race horse named Monsieur Monestyr, Le Gaulois, 423 Feb 1912, p. 4.

George married Chariklea (Ioannis) Scanavi on 20 May 1912 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Chariklea (daughter of Ioannis (Alexander) Scanavi and Francesca Calogeras) was born on 8 Feb 1889 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia; died on 16 Jun 1978 in 34 de Vere Gardens, Kensington, London, England UK; was buried on 21 Jun 1978. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Paris 1900 World Expo prize: Négroponte (J.U.), Roumanie, received honorable mention in the genie civil-moyens de transport; silver medal in the exploitation des mines, minieres et carrieres; Negropontes (J.V.[sic]), Roumanie, received a silver medal in the Produits des exploitations et des industries forestieres; Négropontes (S.U) [sic], Roumanie, received a grand prix in the Sirops et liqueurs; spiritueux divers; alcools d'industrie.

J.U. Negroponte manufactured cardboard at Grozeschti [Iaşi County, Romania], firm est. 1888, employing 100 workers, Revue de la papeterie française et étrangère, 1901, p. 624; 1903, p. 1903.

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NÉGROPONTE (Mme Ulysse), and (Mlle Hélène), 78 avenue Malakoff, Paris, were friends of the Louvre, 1910.

Mme Sophie Negroponte, Mlle Negroponte, M & Mme Georges Negroponte were among the guests attending a reception in the honor of M. Venizelos on his Paris visit Le Gaulois, 17 Jan 1914, p. 2.

Family/Spouse: General Eremia (Gregory) Grigorescu. Eremia was born on 28 Nov 1863 in Galatz/Galati, Romania; died on 21 Jul 1919 in Bucharest, Romania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dr. of Law, Leipzig; prefet de Cephalonie 1904, depute de l'Attique 1910-1920, ministre des Finances 1916-1917, 1917-1920; president du comite d'assistance des refugies a Salonique, conseiller de la Banque de Grece (Sturza).

Occupation: politician and lawyer.

Grand Officer of the Order of The Saviour.

Helen (who in 1915 is already listed as widow) lived after her husband's death with her father at 12 Othonos St. Some time later they both seem to have moved to 4 Amalias St, St. Negroponte's domicile, which means that St. must have been a very close relative to theirs -- George Agelastos

Cycling, 1898: président, Véloce-Club Athénien, 6, rue Auchesne; Délégués à l'étranger: Athènes (Grèce), M. Negroponti, Miltiade, I, Licabete, Revue mensuelle, Touring-club de France, 15 Jan 1898, p. 35.

He was a witness at the Athens marriage of Lt. Lelay and Suzanne (Jacques) Bonnier, Le Gaulois, 10 Jun 1920, p. 2.

According to Nikos Karabelas in 2014, he appears in two photographs taken during the 1912/13 Balkan wars, inscribed in an album by Prince Nicholas; ?We have photos of a Mr. M. Negroponte, a rather late mid-ager, who is a sergeant volunteer automobile driver in Epirus.? (Christopher Long)

Name:
Miltiade Negropontes on the birth certificate.

Birth:
DOB from certificate. Sturza says 3 Apr 1873.

Miltiades married Maria (Otto) Lüders on 17 Apr 1895 in Athens, Attica, Greece. Maria (daughter of Otto Lüders and Catherine (Constantine) Dossios) was born on 16 Apr 1877 in Athens, Attica, Greece; died in 1962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alexander Rioscano. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Education: American School, Istanbul, Turkey

Military: Romanian Calvary, WW II.

The Red Deer River Ranches website: In 1947, King Michael of Romania abdicated his throne and was given the opportunity to leave the country with an entourage, the King invited John and Joan Negropontes to join him. From Romania they travelled to Switzerland, then to England, and onto Washington, D.C.. Looking for an area similar to his home, John travelled to Alberta in 1948, at this time he purchased a parcel of farmland where he was joined by his wife and children in 1950. In 1951, his daughter Elizabeth was born in Olds, Alberta. In 1955 the Negropontes family met the Count and Countess Batthany of Switzerland. The two families later took a trip to the Ya Ha Tinda Ranch and Big Horn Falls, the were captivated by the scenery as many still are today and this led to their purchase of the then Snyder Ranch. Along with the exchange of owners, the name was changed to... Red Deer River Cattle Ranch, which then became REDDEER RIVER RANCHES Ltd. The farm that the Negropontes family had near Olds, along with land leased on the Coal Camp flats were the source of feed for cattle wintered at the ranch. The land on the flats was eventually purchased by the Batthany family. In 1956 the Little TeePee was renovated and an addition was put on to house the Negropontes family. In the mid 1970's the Negropontes family took over the complete ownership of the ranch. In a few short decades the ranch once again went through many changes. Long time ranch manager Jack Crouch retired in the 1980's and had to be replaced by Jim Lowry, then in 1983 John Negropontes passed away. In 1985 the ranch was sold to Frank Garnett and Stan Bengtson.

Travel: Ion Negropontes, 30, c/o 3 Grosvenor Sq., London W.1, b. Odessa, Russia, Romanian national, administrator of royal domain; wife Joan E.M. Negropontes, 27, b. Bucharest, Romania, h'wife, British national; Alexander Negropontes, 5/8, b. Bucharest, Romania, Romanian national, last permanent residence Bucharest, arrived New York 27 May 1948 from Southampton, England aboard Queen Elizabeth.

Birth:
DOB provided by daughter

Name:
known as Ion Negropontes

John married Joan Elizabeth Mary (Edwin) Boxshall in Mar 1942 in Bucharest, Romania. Joan (daughter of Lt Colonel Edwin George Boxshall, MBE and Princess Elise (Barbu) Stirbey) was born on 21 Jan 1921 in Bucharest, Romania; died on 17 Oct 1986 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
DOB 22 Nov 1917, according to cemetery records.

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She is on wikipedia and Greek-language wikipedia

Occupation: theatrical producer, actor, sceenwriter, theatre teacher and director

Kostas and Eleni Ourani Foundation (website in Greek)

The 1915 Athens directory lists a woman, El. Negroponte, a widow. This is the famous author who became known as Helen Ouranis after her husband's pen name, who was also an author and poet -- George Agelastos.

Helen (who in 1915 is already listed as widow) lived after her husband's death with her father at 12 Othonos St. Some time later they both seem to have moved to 4 Amalias St, St. Negroponte's domicile, which means that St. must have been a very close relative to theirs -- George Agelastos

Birth:
Wikipedia gives her birth place.

Family/Spouse: Constantine (Nicolas) Nyarchos. Constantine (son of Nicolas Nyarchos and Eleni Yaloussi) was born in 1890 in Nafplio, Peloponnese, Greece; died on 12 Jul 1953 in Athens, Attica, Greece; was buried in First Cemetery, Athens, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Helene married Polybios (Nicolas) Coryllos in aut 1918 in [Paris, Île-de-France, France]. Polybios (son of Nicolas Coryllos and Vasiliki Stampados) was born on 02 Nov 1879 in Patras, Peloponnese, Greece; died on 26 Jul 1938 in New York, New York USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]