John (Ambrose) Ralli

Notes:

The 1971 England census for the household at 25 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, headed by Ambrose Ralli, 46, b. Austria, insurance broker; Erato Ralli, 28, b. Turkey; John Ralli, 10, b. Russia; 4 domestic servants.

Buried:
burial plot no. 13307, sq. 28, 54 on the Greek plan.

Notes:

Residence: 1854, Odessa, Russia; 1871, 23 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, London, England; 1891-95, 53 Queensborough Terrace, Bayswater, Middlesex, London, England.

Ambrose J. Ralli was listed as a member of the Baltic Exchange, 1886 (Harlaftis, A History of Greek-owned Shipping, p. 58).

Ambrose John Ralli was partners with Eustratius Constantine Ionides as Insurance Brokers, 29 Threadneedle Street, London, until 31 Mar 1871 (London Gazette 4 Apr 1871).

The 1851 England Census reports that Nicolas Mavrogordato [maybe Nicolas (Matheos) Mavrogordato], 21, general merchant, and John Mavrogordato, 36, clerk, lodged with their cousin Ambrose Ralli, 24, insurance broker, all born Greece, at 26 Finsbury Circus, London.

The 1971 England census for the household at 25 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, headed by Ambrose Ralli, 46, b. Austria, insurance broker; Erato Ralli, 28, b. Turkey; John Ralli, 10, b. Russia; 4 domestic servants.

1881 England census: 53 Queensborough Terrace, London, household headed by Ambrose J. Ralli, 56, insurance agent, b. Austria; wife Erato, 38, b. Turkey; daughter Cornelia, 17, b. Russia; & 4 servants.

1891 England census: 53 Queensborough Terrace, London, household was headed by Ambrose J. Ralli, 66, insurance broker, b. Austria; wife Erato, 56, b. Turkey; daughter Cornelia, 26, b. Russia; & 4 servants.

Ambrose John Constantine Ralli [13 Copthall Court EC] appears on 1885, 1886, [24 Gloucester Square] 1890, 1891, 1895, 1896, 1897 UK electoral register, Paddington South parliamentary division, Westminster county/borough.

Died:
Estate valued at £5725 17s 10d, administered at London 1 June 1895, by widow.

Buried:
Burial register #a17252. Archimandrite Antonios Paraschis officiated.

burial plot no. 13307, sq. 28, 54 on the Greek plan.

Ambrose married Erato (Emmanuel) Scaramanga in 1850 in Odessa, Ukraine. Erato (daughter of Emmanuel (George) Scaramanga and Despina (Frangoulis) Salvago) was born on 06 Jan 1836 in Rhodes, Greece; died on 17 Mar 1918 in London, England UK; was buried on 21 Mar 1918 in Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Erato Ambrose Ralli, widow, administered the estate of her daughter, Cornelia (UK National Probate Calendar Index, 1914).

The 1971 England census for the household at 25 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, headed by Ambrose Ralli, 46, b. Austria, insurance broker; Erato Ralli, 28, b. Turkey; John Ralli, 10, b. Russia; 4 domestic servants.

1881 England census: 53 Queensborough Terrace, London, household headed by Ambrose J. Ralli, 56, insurance agent, b. Austria; wife Erato, 38, b. Turkey; daughter Cornelia, 17, b. Russia; & 4 servants.

1891 England census: 53 Queensborough Terrace, London, household was headed by Ambrose J. Ralli, 66, insurance broker, b. Austria; wife Erato, 56, b. Turkey; daughter Cornelia, 26, b. Russia; & 4 servants.

1901 England census: 84 Oxford Terrace, London, household headed by Erato Ralli, 62, widow, b. Greece; daughter Cornelia, 37, unmarried, b. Odessa, Russia; & 3 servants, next to the Demetrius G. Schilizzi family.

Residence: at DOD 3 Sussex Gardens, Paddington, London, England.

Mrs. Erato Ambrose Ralli [84 Oxford Terrace] appears on 1902, 1903 UK electoral register, Paddington South parliamentary division, Westminster county/borough; [3 Sussex Gardens] 1906, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1914, 1915 Paddington South/Westminster.

Buried:
Burial register #A53119. C. Pagonis officiated.

burial plot no. 13307, sq. 28, 54 on the Greek plan.

Died:
DOD 16 Mar 1918 according to probate

Her estate of ￡7306 18s. 8d went to John Scaramanga and George Scaramanga, shipowners.

Notes:

According to his grandson John (Matthew) Ziffo, he was "the biggest shipowner in Greece [around 1850], owning about 20 sailing vessels, probably not larger than 600 or 700 tons each. They traded between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Adriatic ports: often venturing as far as London and Liverpool, carrying wheat, barley and other grain from Russia and Rumania, which countries were then the only ones that supplied, in large quantities, Western Europe with her requirements...Then the crash came; the Crimean War which on a smaller scale had the same disastrous after-effects as the Great War, and thousands were ruined, amongst others, John Ralli."

Residence: -1822 Chios; 1824 Athens; 1826-1828 Trieste; 1835-1845 Syros; 1854 Trieste.

Name:
Named Jean in his son Pandia's death certificate.

Zannis married Cornelia (Dimitrios) Sevastopoulos on 06 May 1823 in Trieste, Italy/Austria. Cornelia (daughter of Dimitrios (Emmanuel) Sevastopoulos and Maria (Constantine) Negroponte) was born in 1806 in Chios, Greece; died on 18 Apr 1841 in Trieste, Italy/Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
Called Cornelie Sevastopulo in her son Pandia's death certificate.

Died:
Argenti says 18 Mar 1851. The 1841 date is from John Ziffo, their grandson.

Notes:

Writer of a diary recapitulating the events of the Chios Massacres and recording his later life in exile. Member of the Expeditionary Commission which attempted to liberate Chios in 1827. An Emmanuel Scaramanga lived on Syros. (Christopher Long)

"First settled in the Cyclades (Tinos,Andros and Syros) and was finally appointed Vice-Consul o Greece in Rhodes."

Emmanuel married Despina (Frangoulis) Salvago. Despina was born on 22 Apr 1795 in Chios, Greece; died on 15 May 1871 in Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Two children of Stephanos Ralli & Marietta Mavrogordato -- Ambrouzis and his sister Marietta -- are on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree.

Birth:
1732, by Sturdza

Ambrouzis married Despina (Dimitrios) Maximo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Argenti says her parents were Demitrios Perris Maximo and Vierou Vlasto; Sturdza says Antonios Maximo and Vierou Vlasto.

Notes:

Died:
Held hostage and hanged by the Turks in the Massacres of Chios "together with about 80 members of the richest and best families in the island." (His great-grandson John Ziffo)

Dimitrios married Maria (Constantine) Negroponte. Maria (daughter of Constantine (Zannis) Negroponte and Arghyro [Negroponte]) was born in 1779 in Chios, Greece; died on 28 Sep 1849 in Trieste, Italy/Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]