Ambrose (George) Ziffo

Notes:

For convenience sake Ambrose (George) Ziffo is also listed on the main Agelasto tree, where his brother Stephanos (George) Ziffo is an ancestor of the Agelasto bloodline.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to his grandson, John, "all his books and fortune were lost and his nice house ransacked and burnt, so that all our efforts to trace his family-tree were fruitless."

Family/Spouse: Maria (Ambrosios) Negroponte. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Loula (Dimitrios) Petrocochino. Loula was born in 1796; died about 1825 in Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Veseri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She "lived with her father all her life, both in Athens and Trieste, where she died," according to her step-brother John.

Marouko married Theodore (Ambrouzis) Ralli in Dec 1829 in Trieste, Italy/Austria. Theodore (son of Ambrouzis (Stephanos) Ralli and Despina (Dimitrios) Maximo) was born in 1792 in Chios, Greece; died on 25 Dec 1845 in Trieste, Italy/Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence: Athens; after 1851 Trieste.

According to his son, John (Matthew) Ziffo, his father "was born in the Island of Chios about 2 1/2 years before the Massacre. On that terrible day his Mother with her two daughters, and a young maid, carrying my Father, took to the mountains to cross the island; following a long trail of refugees and guided by shepherds over mule paths. The maid soon got tired, left the child on the mountain side and fled. A Mr Agelasto, [this would be Michael Pandely Agelasto] the father of John [Michael] Agelasto whose firm (Frangopulo Agelasto & Co of London and Liverpool) [Theodore (Matthew) Ziffo] joined when he came to London, was following and recognizing the child picked him up and took him to the island of Syra. By a fortunate coincidence his mother and sisters also landed in Syra. One can imagine her joy at being re-united with her boy whom she had feared lost."

He was brought up by relatives because his mother died when he was quite young. He was sent to Leghorn to complete his studies, then returned to Syros. By age 28 he held a "quite important social position being the only banker received at King Othon's court, the foreign embassies and in best society." Then came the financial crash and Crimean War. His bank guaranteed John Ralli, "his father-in-law for a substantial amount, in the hopes of saving him from bankruptcy but ultimately [both] were ruined." Then, "Ambrogio di Stefano Ralli of Trieste (who afterwards became Baron Ralli) offered him the post of manager...paying in full all his creditors." He lived for 52 years after the family moved to Trieste and "during all those years having to support a large family he never managed to accumulate more than £10,000 which gradually disappeared as the two [daughters] grew up and expenses increased with dowries to get them married. When he was about 70 Rallis pensioned him off." (John Matthew Ziffo)

Matheo Alexandre Ziffo, Trieste, Merchant invested in The Bank of Alexandria Limited (London Gazette 27 Sep 1873).

Matthew married Despina (Zannis) Ralli on 16 Nov 1842 in Athens, Attica, Greece. Despina (daughter of Zannis (Ambrouzis) Ralli and Cornelia (Dimitrios) Sevastopoulos) was born on 08 Sep 1824 in Athens, Attica, Greece; died on 03 Apr 1869 in Trieste, Italy/Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sophia married Francesco (Luigi) Brucker on 11 Oct 1868 in Trieste, Italy/Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her brother John wrote: "My sister Maria was the youngest but the gem of the family. She was good-looking, had lovely eyes, a wonderful memory and a lovely soprano voice. She could read half a page of poetry in French, German or Italian, and repeat it without a mistake. When only fourteen years of age she played at a charity concert the long and difficult Rhapsodie Hongroise of Litzt without music and in the papers next day they called her a prodigy. She married a charming and clever German-Austrian, then employed in the Post Office in Vienna. Two years after Maria's death he married again and the last I heard of him was that he had an important Government post."

Maria married Maurice Felizetti di Liebenfeld on 20 Aug 1883 in Trieste, Italy/Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
The 1917 death of a Julia Ziffo was registered in Jan-Feb-Mar, London v 1a, p 4. Certificate not examined. The birth year was given as about 1839.

Family/Spouse: Giuseppe (Giuseppe) Scarabelli. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

When he came to London he joined Frangopulo Agelasto & Co, according to his brother John (Matthew) Ziffo.

Died:
DOD in Probate, 1901.

Estate valued at £1945 16s 8d, administered at London 1 May 1902, went to widow.

Theodore married Clementina (Nicolas) Scaramanga on 20 Dec 1882 in Calcutta, Bengal, British India . Clementina (daughter of Nicolas (George) Scaramanga and Hypatia (Nicolas) Scaramanga) was born on 24 Feb 1862 in Manchester, Lancashire, England UK; was christened on 10 May 1862 in Manchester, Lancashire, England UK; died on 09 Mar 1921 in Naples, Campania, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John Matthew Ziffo [80 Westbourne Terrace] appears on the 1910, 1913, 1915, 1918 electoral register Paddington South parliamentary division, Westminster county/borough; [57 Palmerston House, abode - 80 Westbourne Terrace] 1912, 1914; [57 Palmerston House, abode - 18 Cleveland Gardens W] London/City of London 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924; [18 Cleveland Gardens W] 1918, 1919, 1921 Paddington and St Marylebone/Westminster; 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937 Paddington/Westminster; 1928 Paddington and Poplar/Westminster.

1911 England census for 80 Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, Paddington, London W, household headed by John Ziffo, 62, b. Athens, Greece, married 24 years, 2 children, 2 living, East India merchant, exporter cotton goods, importer jute & grain, Greek nationality; wife Argyrie, 24, b. Liverpool; daughters Dessie, 23, b. Calcutta; Olga, 21, b. London, Paddington; both single; 6 servants.

1921 Census Of England & Wales includes: John Ziffo, b. 1849, Greece; Arghyri Ziffo, b. 1862, Liverpool, Lancashire; Despina Ziffo, b. 1888, India; for the household in Paddington, London.

Died:
His estate was administered by Pandia Calvocoressi and Emmanuel Demetriadi.

Buried:
burial in plot 21775, sq 28-42, Greek plan no. 8, reg. pg. 17995, no. 73124

John married Arghyri (Dimitrios) Petrocochino on 16 Oct 1886 in St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England UK. Arghyri (daughter of Dimitrios (Emmanuel) Petrocochino and Despina (Matthew) Rodocanachi) was born on 23 Jan 1861 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England UK; was christened on 26 Apr 1861 in Greek Church of St Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England UK; died on 17 Jan 1954 in Albury, London Road, East Grinstead, Sussex, England UK; was buried on 29 Jan 1954 in Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Alexander Matthew Ziffo, merchant, 1 Great Winchester St. Buildings, E.C. London, was a partner in the Commercial Bank of Alexandria Ltd (The London Gazette, 28 Feb 1877).

Mrs A. Ziffo, 33 Sussex Lodge Sussex Pl W.2, Paddington, London (1939 phone listing).

His brother John wrote: "He lived in London for many years and was in the firm of Paspati & Co. When Mr Paspati died he returned to Trieste and put his savings (about £3,000) in the Scarabelli business and it was lost or rather recklessly spent by sister Julia and himself, Scarabelli being too weak to stop it. This combined, with a great shock (an English girl he was in love with in London gave him up and married another Greek young man) affected his brain and we had to put him in a private sanatorium in Monza near Milan. After 4 years he was well enough to come home and gradually he was completely cured."

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Residence: at DOD, Karachi, India.

Died:
His father petitioned the court on 5 Oct 1881 to have his estate administered by Stephen Augustus Ralli and Alexander Anthony Vlasto, both of 25 Finsbury Circus, London.

Death notice in The Times of India, 6 May 1881.

Died the residence of Mr J Fachin [Fachiri], Malabar Hill.

Notes:

According to his brother John, "His life was uneventful. He remained all his life in Trieste as a clerk in Baron Ralli's office. He died from cancer of the intestines at the age of 72."