Marigo (George) Scaramanga

Notes:

The 1939 England and Wales Register for the address Rushetts, Cuckfield, Sussex, lists Marigo Scaramanga, b. 26 Nov 1862, single; Despina Ziffo, b. 9 Nov 1887, single; Arghire Ziffo, b. 4 Feb 1861, widowed, all Private Means.

Christened:
God-parents: Stephen E. Franghiadi.

Buried:
burial plot 27728, reg. pg. 19152, no. 82382.

Notes:

London Law case, 1864: Lane v London Bank of Scotland; plaintiffs: Richard Stuart Lane, Horace Edward Chapman and Frederick John Helbert; Defendants: The London Bank of Scotland Ltd, William Walter Cargill, Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay bart, Peter Pandia Rodocanachi, George Emanuel Scaramanga, Emanuel George Franghiadi, Eugene Collins, Henry Spicer, William Julius Marshall, John Elin, Hon William Napier liquidator of the said Bank, Nathaniel Hitchin Palmer and Richard Baker.

Naturalisation Papers: Scaramanga, George Emanuel, from Greece. Certificate 3920 issued 24 September 1862,

Buried:
burial plot Sq 28, no. 27738, no. 56 on Greek plan, register pg. 11609, no. 22039.

Archimandrite A. Paraschis officiating

Died:
Estate valued at £8738 4s 6d, administered at London 17 Jan 1897, went to widow.

George married Elizabeth (Emmanuel) Franghiadi on 23 Feb 1860 in Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England UK. Elizabeth (daughter of Emmanuel George (Zorzis) Franghiadi and Marigo (Michael) Rodocanachi) was born on 22 Mar 1843 in London, England UK; was christened on 15 May 1843 in Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England UK; died on 09 May 1933 in Crawley Down, Sussex, England UK; was buried on 12 May 1933 in Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1901 England Census reports the Scaramanga household at Tiltwood House, Crawley Down, Sussex included: Elisa Scaramanga, head, 58, widow; children Marigo, 38, both born London; Ambrose, 31, shipowner; Calliope, 29; John, 32, shipowner, his wife Louise (born Russia, British subject), 26, their sons George, 3, and James, 2, both born Sussex; 5 domestic servants.

The 1881 England Census reports the George G. Scaramanga household at Tiltwood House, Crawley Down, Sussex included: George G., head, 55, general merchant, born Greece, naturalized British subject; wife Elisa G., 38; children Despina G, 20; Marigo, 18; Julia, 16, all born London; Calliope, 9; Erato 8; both born Sussex; 3 domestic servants.

1891 England census: 84 Lansdown Road, Hove, Sussex, household headed by George E Scaramarga, 65, retired merchant, b. Greece, naturalized British subject; wife Elise, 48; daughters Marrigo, 28, both born London; Calliope, 19; Erato, 18, both b. Worth, Sussex; & 5 servants.

1861 England census: 123 Westbourne Terrace, London, household headed by George E. Scaramanga, 34, general merchant, b. Greece; wife Elise G.E., 18; daughter, Despina, 21 months, both b. London; brother Emanuel E., unmarried, 22, general merchant, b. Greece; & 5 servants [next to the Peter Rodocanachi family at number 125].

Christened:
God-parents: Hypatios Michael Rodocanachi.

Name:
Husband's probate lists her name as Elise.

Buried:
burial plot 27738, reg. pg. 17516, 69290.

Died:
Her estate of £14431 16s. 4d. was administered by her sons John and Ambrose.

Notes:

Married:
Marriage Witnesses: Emmanuel Scaramanga and Julia Franghiadi; Narkissos Morphinos presiding; entry 43

Marriage announcement in the Observer [London], 26 Feb 1860, p. 9.

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:

London Law case, 1864: Lane v London Bank of Scotland; plaintiffs: Richard Stuart Lane, Horace Edward Chapman and Frederick John Helbert; Defendants: The London Bank of Scotland Ltd, William Walter Cargill, Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay bart, Peter Pandia Rodocanachi, George Emanuel Scaramanga, Emanuel George Franghiadi, Eugene Collins, Henry Spicer, William Julius Marshall, John Elin, Hon William Napier liquidator of the said Bank, Nathaniel Hitchin Palmer and Richard Baker.

He escaped Chios in 1822 in a barrel hidden aboard a ship, according to his great-grandson Yannis Franghiadi.

Died:
The 1890 register of deaths, Vital Statistics, Piraeus, Greece, lists Emmanuel Franghiadi, p 716.

Emmanuel married Marigo (Michael) Rodocanachi on 23 Jan 1838 in Chapel of Our Saviour, Finsbury Circus, City of London, England UK. Marigo (daughter of Michael (Matthew) Rodocanachi and Semira (Hypatios) Avierino) was born on 13 Jan 1821 in Chios, Greece; died on 25 Jun 1856 in London, England UK; was buried on 28 Jun 1856 in Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Catsiyannis says her marriage is the first documentary evidence of a Rodocanachi in London (apart, presumably, from that of Constantine, physician to King Charles ll) (Christopher Long)

The 1841 England Census reports the household living at 18 Finsbury Circus, London: Emanuel Franghiadi, 25, Paul Franghiadi 15; Mary Franghiadi, 20, all foreign born; George Franghiadi, 17 months; Michel Franghiadi, 7 months, both born in England.

Buried:
burial plot no. 5001

Notes:

Married:
This union seems unrelated to the large London firm of Rodocanachi & Franghiadi, exporters of grain and coffee, in the 1850s.

Witnesses/Sponsors: P.S. Ralli & Stephen Franghiadi; Dionysios Xenakis presiding; entry 2.

"A betrothal might cement an existing collaboration between business partners from two different families, as occurred in the case of Emmanouel Frangiades, who married Marigo Rodocannachis, the sister of his buiness partner, in London in 1833 [sic]." Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, "Women and Family Capitalism in Greece, c. 1780-1940," Business History Review, v 81, n 3, pp 522-523.

Notes:

Dominie Nicholls (née Vlasto) says in her memoirs that he was hanged on Chios in 1822 though this is not known to Argenti's 'Libro d'Oro' or to Helen Long's 'Greek Fire'. (Christopher Long)

Brother to Platon-Pantoleon Emmanuel Franghiadi, bishop of Chios, b. 1776 and hanged by the Turks in April 1822; and Sephen Emmannuel Franghiadi, b. 1774.

Zorzis married Zambelou (Constantine) Negroponte. Zambelou (daughter of Constantine (Zannis) Negroponte and Arghyro [Negroponte]) died in 1856. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Argenti says he was held hostage in the Kastro in 1822 on Chios and then hanged. Helen Long's 'Greek Fire' agrees he was a hostage in the Kastro in 1822 but that he was then released. (Christopher Long)

Michael married Semira (Hypatios) Avierino. Semira (daughter of Hypatios (Antonios) Avierino) was born in 1798 in Chios, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After the massacres on Chios in 1822 she fled with her children to her husband's brothers in Trieste.