Hélène Olga (Etienne) Zarifi

Notes:

The 1939 England and Wales Register for the address 10 Ennismore Avenue, Guildford, Surrey, lists Leon P Argenti, b. 7 Jan 1882, Director of Companies (Merchant Bank), Last war Rank of Captain; wife Nellie Argenti, b. 30 May 1891; Fanny Argenti, b. 20 Jul 1915, single, Hospital Aid Asst.

Birth:
Signatory witnesses to her birth included Demetrius Zafiropoulo [likely Dimitri (Constantin) Zafiropoulo] and his putative brother Nicolas, 26, engineer.


Buried:
Cemetery 1979 register midi carré 2, ter grec, no. 8, 88 years old, 7 rue Rodocanachi, entry 6094. '6 Nov 1981' [probably the date a tomb was completed].

Hélène married Leonidas Pandely (Pandely) Argenti on 22 Jul 1914 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. Leonidas (son of Pandely Leonidas (Leonidas) Argenti and Fanny (Ioannis) Schilizzi) was born on 01 Jun 1882 in London, England UK; was christened on 06 Jul 1882 in Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England UK; died on 22 Feb 1956 in Anvers [Antwerp], Antwerp, Belgium; was buried on 10 Mar 1956 in St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She appears in a Vlasto family holiday photograph dated 1927 at Overstrand, England, with Manoli and Despina Benachi, her brother Cyril Argenti, and the Vlasto children Helen, Christian, Pogy and Nancy (Christopher Long collection).

Fannette was one of the seven child attendants at the 1927 wedding of George John Calvocoressi and her aunt Julia 'Queenie' Argenti.

Fanny Argenti [60 Porchester Terrace] appears on the 1937, 1938 UK electoral register, Paddington parliamentary division, Westminster county/borough; [63 Porchester Terrace] 1939.

The French government allowed her to keep her British nationality. Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et décrets, 8 Jan 1939.

The 1939 England and Wales Register for the address 10 Ennismore Avenue, Guildford, Surrey, lists Leon P Argenti, b. 7 Jan 1882, Director of Companies (Merchant Bank), Last war Rank of Captain; wife Nellie Argenti, b. 30 May 1891; Fanny Argenti, b. 20 Jul 1915, single, Hospital Aid Asst.

Notes:

Occupation: Greek Orthodox cleric

His website.

Education: Marseilles. Oxford. Aix-en-Provence. Athens.

Known by his priest's name, Cyrille. Ordained a priest in 1950 and appointed Archimandrite of Marseilles. Cyrille blessed Christopher Long (aged about five) in the gardens of 441 Avenue du Prado in ca. 1954.

A member of the French 'Résistance' in WWII and imprisoned in France. His uncle Pandely Leonidas Argenti had a medallion struck to acknowledge 'Cyrille's' wartime conduct in the French 'Résistance' and his refusal to talk despite torture by the Germans.

He was one of the seven child attendants at the 1927 wedding of George John Calvocoressi and his aunt Julia 'Queenie' Argenti.

Cited for his role in the Marseille Greek community.