Demetrius (Nicolas) Calvocoressi

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The Calvocoressi family arrived in Marseille in 1855. Demetrius was 40 years old in 1876, living on the Boulevard de la Liberte, then rue du Theatre francais (quartier du Chapitre). He ran the commercial house Calvocoressi & Co. and owned a residence and three rural properties, all forming a capital in excess of 400,000 francs. He was naturalized French in 1879.

Birth:
DOB on marriage certificate.

Christened:
Baptism registered on Syros

Demetrius married Maria (Michael) Zygomala on 13 Dec 1876 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. Maria (daughter of Michael (Georges) Zygomala and Maria Metaxa) was born on 27 Oct 1854 in rue Senac 12, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France; died in 1880 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
This is not in the Index to birth registers, Marseille, for the years 1863-1882. Her marriage certificate says 11 Jan 1869, Marseille.

Name:
Calapodis says that Nicolas Antoine and Helene Marie were orphans adopted by Demetrius in Marseille.

Hélène married Gustave Francois (Nazaire) Guiol on 20 Feb 1894 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France, and was divorced on 07 Mar 1899 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. Gustave (son of Nazaire Désiré (Patthagan) Guiol and Marie Clémentine (Etienne) Rouquet) was born on 28 Feb 1871 in boulevard Notre Dame 4, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France; died after 1932. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Occupation: 1908, accountant

Residence: 1908, Lyon, France.

Birth:
DOB from birth certificate. Argenti says 28 Aug 1872, which is also DOB on his marriage certificate.

Name:
Calapodis says that Nicolas Antoine and Helene Marie were orphans adopted by Demetrius in Marseille.

Nicolas married Marguerite Anna (Pierre) Casassa on 9 Jun 1901 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France, and was divorced on 13 Apr 1905 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. Marguerite (daughter of Pierre Antoine Cassase and Henriette Antoinette Bonduel) was born on 8 Mar 1873 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nicolas married Alexandrine Louise Augustine (Rambert) Leroux on 07 Sep 1908 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France. Alexandrine (daughter of Rambert Leroux and Marie Victoire Catasse dit Chambard) was born on 6 Mar 1875 in Faubourg des Blanchisseries 88, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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6 Mar 1898: Michael Demetrios Calvocoressi, 20, unmarried, born Ermoupolis, swore allegiance to the Greek government at the Town Hall, Ermoupolis, Syros.

Calvocoressi, Michael, from Greece. Resident in London. Also Marseille. UK naturalization certificate 12103 issued 18 May 1925 (National Archives)

Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi translated documents from French into English (UK National Archives).

Occupation: writer

Michel Calvocoressi [with Ethel Calvocoressi, 6 Paultons Square] appears on the 1926, 1927, [with Michel Calvocoressi, 5 Bramerton Street] 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, [hereafter only Ethel] 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958 electoral register, Chelsea parliamentary division, Kensington and Chelsea county/borough.

His wikipedia page.

He met Ravel in 1898 and, after an initial period of mutual suspicion, they became lifelong friends. It was Calvocoressi who provided Ravel with the folk texts for his Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques. Educated in France, Calvocoressi was a skilled linguist and wrote in several languages. He published books on Liszt (1906), Moussorgsky (1908), Glinka (1911), Schumann (1912), as well translations into English. After WWI, he moved to England. On Musical Criticism was published in 1923 (OUP), and Musicians Gallery in 1933. In his Miroirs Ravel dedicated to him Alborada del Gracioso [Morning Song of the Jester]. Worked for the War Office in London during WWI, dealing with postal censorship when he joined British Intelligence (presumably MI5 or, more likely, MI6). He is referred to in Alan Judd’s The Quest for C - Mansfield Cumming and the foundation of the Secret Service. (Christopher Long)

Residence: at DOD, 5 Bramerton Street, Chelsea, London, England UK

1921 England and Wales Census lists: Michael Calvocoressi, b. 1877, France; Ethel Calvocoressi, b. 1895, London, London, for a household in Chelsea, London.

Birth:
Argenti says 21 Oct 1877, Marseille, France.

Michael married Ethel (Gabriel) Silverman on 24 May 1916 in St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England UK. Ethel (daughter of Gabriel Silverman and Bertha [Silverman]) was born about 1889 in London, England UK; died on 2 Dec 1957 in London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]