Michael (Stamati) Agelasto

Notes:

Zolotas mentions a Michael Agelasto (1826 in Constantinople) and his son Emmanuel A. (s. Georgiadis). Emmanuel´s wife was Ypatia, who died 1870 (s. Georgiadis).


Residence: 1826, Constantinople (Zolotas)

Michael Agelasto bought George Dromocaitis out of slavery in Constantinople, after the 1822 massacre. See, also website.

1815 Vienna city directory lists Michael Agelasto under Negroponte Angerinos and Company.

Family/Spouse: Hypatia (Alexander) Sevastopoulos. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Argenti identifies a John Emmanuel Agelasto (1848-1905) on the Petrocochino tree (http://www.agelastos.com/genealogy/admin/index.php) who is not placed on the main Agelasto tree. His father was Emmanuel John (1822, Turkey), apparently the same date and place of birth as Emmanuel Michael.

Unknown to Argenti. The information here comes from a 1929 letter from Smaragda Fotiadis (née Agelasto) to her nephew Nicolaos Agelasto, b 1910-d 1945) (2007, Constantin Agelasto collection, deciphered and translated by George Agelasto). http://www.agelastos.com/genealogy/documents/SMARAGDA_1929_letter.html

Smaragda Fotiadis says he had five sons, all dead by 1929. He operated a Manchester trading company, [presumably 1860s] "Rodocanachi & Agelasto" with the husband of his sister. It ended in failure, she says. Indeed, Constantine Theodore (Theodore) Rodocanachi was a Liverpool merchant in 1869. He was married to Arghyro 'Argentine' (Ambrose) Sechiari; no documentary evidence of an Agelasto married to a Rodocanachi in that place and time or a company by that name.

Zolotas mentions a Michael Agelasto (1826 in Constantinople) and his son Emmanuel A. (s. Georgiadis). Emmanuel´s wife was Ypatia, who died 1870, citing Georgiadis.


The 1909 & 1913 Istanbul city directory lists an Etienne E. Agélasto as 'comptable un grand livre de l'administration de la dette publique ottoman,' domiciled at Yénikeny. Could be one of the putative five sons.

Based on the accounting records of St John Church, Georgiadis makes an alphabetical list of Chiot enterprises [of Constantinople] that sponsored the Church in the time from 1843 to 1880. There is no mention of year/date. Included among Agelastos enterprises is: Emmanuel M. Agelastos.

Family/Spouse: Ypatia [Agelasto]. Ypatia died on 19 Dec 1870 in [Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey]; was buried in Sislí Greek Orthodox Cemetery, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Stamati Michael Agelastos & Esmeralda Agelastos are listed in the Belgium (Antwerp) Police Immigration Index, 1840-1885: file number: 45940, page 4, film number: 2234256, digital folder number: 4331460, image number: 00322.

Birth:
Birth year approximated by age given on death certificate. Argenti says birth in 1822.

Died:
DOD from death certificate. Argenti says 20 May 1897.

Stamati married Catherine (Ioannis) Psomadis in 1855 in Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey. Catherine (daughter of Ioannis Psomadis and Smaragda Tapinos) was born in 1834 in Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey; died on 02 Jul 1875 in Prinkipos, Sea of Marmara, Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

The 1903 Istanbul city lists a George Agelasto 'employé à la régie cointéressée des tabacs d l'empire ottoman,' domicile: R. Yéni-kapou, 143, S [Istanbul]. The 1909 directory lists a Georges Agelasto, residing at 1 Rue Soandji, Péra and employed "à la régie des tabacs," a bureau of the Ottoman state. The 1908-1913 directories list him as employed "à la régie cointéressée des tabacs de l'empire ottoman," domicilded at Yeni Yol (impasse) 13, 15, Péra, Appartem. Almaleh Efraim #8.

Birth:
According to his grandson

Died:
likely died in Turkey

Family/Spouse: Iphigenie Gregoriou. Iphigenie (daughter of Emmanuel Gregoriou and Mariora Michael) was born on 04 Mar 1875 in Neochorion, Campos, Chios, Greece; was christened on 27 Apr 1875 in Neochorion, Campos, Chios, Greece; died about 28 Oct 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt ; was buried on 29 Oct 1944 in Greek Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Unknown to Argenti.

On the list of graves in the churchyard of St John of the Chiots, Georgiadis mentions the grave of "Hypatia, daughter of Stamatios Agelastos from Chios, born 23 March 1857, died 24 October 1862." The other recorded Stamatios Agelastos in Constantinople had a daughter named Hypatia about this time.

Notes:

Residence: 1887, 97 Hanley Road, Islington, Middlesex, England; at DOD, 24 Ithakis St, Athens.

Occupation: merchant; 1887, Tobacco Manufacturer. In discussing an exhibition in Antwerp, a commentator noted "Fastidious smokers will find a large assortment of the best brands of Turkish and Russian cigarettes and tobacco at the stand of Agelasto Brothers, of Antwerp" (Liverpool Mercury 15 May 1886).

Argenti says Jean.

G. Washburn in his book on Robert College, Constantinople, mentions a "Yanko Agelasto" as a witness to the signing of a school document in 1868. Yanko, a familiar form of John, could have been John Stamati Agelasto, 9 years old at the time.

J. Agelasto, domiciled at R. Van Immerzeel, 12, Anvers/Antwerpen, was marketing tobacco products at a trade show Oct 1885.

Name:
Argenti calls him Jean. John is on his marraige certificate.

Buried:
Sec 17, n 199

John married Victoria (Edward) Verbracken on 24 Mar 1887 in Islington, London, England UK. Victoria (daughter of Edward Verbracken and Mary Ann [Verbracken]) was born on 04 Nov 1859 in London, England UK; was christened on 27 Feb 1859 in St. John the Evangelist, Charlotte Street, London, England UK; died on 09 Jan 1932 in 24 Ithakis St, Gerakas, Greater Athens, Attica, Greece; was buried in First Cemetery of Athens, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Stamati Michael Agelastos & Esmeralda Agelastos are listed in the Belgium (Antwerp) Police Immigration Index, 1881-1885: file number: 45940, page 4, film number: 2234256, digital folder number: 4331460, image number: 00322.

Name:
Married name also spelled Brunserayde

Esmeralda married Alfred (Edmond) Bruynserade on 04 May 1886 in Anvers [Antwerp], Antwerp, Belgium. Alfred (son of Edmond (Philippe) Bruynserade and Elise Tank de Schroëde) was born on 15 May 1851 in Anvers [Antwerp], Antwerp, Belgium; died on 13 Feb 1913 in Athens, Attica, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Certain details resemble those of his namesake.

Dimitri Agelasto is listed in the Belgium (Antwerp) Police Immigration Index, 1881-1885: file number: 45187, page 4, film number: 2234256, digital folder number: 4331460, image number: 00322.

A listing in an 1893 publication by the Antwerp geography society lists D. Agelasto, consul de Grece, a Anvers (Bulletin de la Société de géographie d'Anvers, 1893-1894, p. 4.)

Dimitri married Julie (Jean) Caralli on 30 Jan 1919 in Athens, Attica, Greece. Julie (daughter of Jean Caralli and Countess Zoë Crassa) was born on 15 Aug 1853 in Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1913, according to the Istanbul city directory, one Michel Agelasto was a steamship agent, 24-26 Omer Abid Han, Galata and resided at 11 Rue Anadolou, Péra.

1815 Vienna city directory lists Michael Agelasto under Negroponte Angerinos and Company.

International Trade developer, 1922, lists Agelasto & Co., Antwerp, Belgium, dealing in Iron and Steel Products, Skins and Hides, Wire Cable and Wire Products, and Cement.

Michael married Marie (Jean) de ter Bossche on 10 Dec 1890 in Brussels [Bruxelles], Belgium. Marie (daughter of Jean de ter Bossche and Emily [de ter Bossche]) was born on 29 Oct 1866 in Alost [Aalst], Denderstreek, Belgium; died on 03 Mar 1942 in Vleteren, West Flanders, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Obtained Greek citizenship and was in the army

Birth:
origin Chios

Buried:
Burial certificate lists Constantinople as place of origin.

Died:
Died of tuberculosis, according to burial records.

Nicolaos married Irene Constantine (Constantine) Nicolaides on 11 Jun 1938 in Alexandria, Egypt . Irene (daughter of Constantine Nicolaides and Angelica [Nicolaides]) was born in 1911 in Alexandria, Egypt ; died on 27 Nov 2001 in Athens, Attica, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Her death, and the only information on her, was mentioned in a letter of condolence to her brother.

Notes:

Buried:
tombstone reads: Ioan[na] Agelastos

Died:
DOD from death certificate.

in an Athens hospital

Marguerite married Admiral Gregory (Stephanos) Mezeviris on 11 Jun 1911 in Athens, Attica, Greece. Gregory was born on 05 Jan 1891 in Piraeus, Attica, Greece; died on 23 Oct 1978 in Athens, Attica, Greece; was buried in First Cemetery of Athens, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]