Living

Notes:

The 1939 England and Wales Register for the address Oldbury, Knotty Green, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, lists Augustus Agelasto, b. 16 Jul 1905, decorating contractor, and wife Charlotte P Agelasto, b. 22 Aug. 1904.

Christened:
He was actually baptised in India and then anointed in London on said date.

God-parent: Aikaterini Steph. Agelasto

Baptised in tandem with his baby brother John.

Died:
His estate was valued at £382,091 net (The Times [London], 4 Dec 1984).

Buried:
See Find A Grave website.

Augustus married Charlotte Priestly (Frank) Watson on 21 Nov 1931 in Moor Allerton, Yorkshire, England UK. Charlotte (daughter of Major Frank Leslie (John) Watson, MC and Charlotte Ethel (John) Barber) was born on 22 Aug 1904 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England UK; died on 18 Mar 2006 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England UK; was cremated on 04 Apr 2006 in Chilterns Crematorium, Amersham, Chiltern District, Buckinghamshire, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1939 England and Wales Register for the address Oldbury, Knotty Green, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, lists Augustus Agelasto, b. 16 Jul 1905, decorating contractor, and wife Charlotte P Agelasto, b. 22 Aug. 1904.

1921 Census Of England & Wales includes: Charlotte Pristley Watson, b. 1904, Headingley, Yorkshire; Frank Leslie Watson, b. 1871, Shirburn, Oxfordshire; Charlotte Ethel Watson, b. 1868, Leeds, Yorkshire; Nigel Watson, b. 1901, Headingley, Yorkshire; for a household in Leeds, Yorkshire (West Riding).

Buried:
See Find A Grave website.

Notes:

Married:
Marriage announcement in The Times (London) 26 Oct 1931, p 15. Wedding reported in The Times (London) 24 Nov 1931, p 1. Her address given as 39 Nunroyd Road, Moor Allerton, Leeds.

A notice in The Times (London), 21 Nov 1981 announced the couple's "Golden Wedding."

Notes:

Listed also by Argenti as #188.

Occupation: Merchant. Listed in 1913 as a member of the Baltic Exchange (representing Ralli Bros).

Residence: 1905, Karachi, India; 1906, 115 Inverness Terrace, W, London; 1912-18, 17 Palace Court, London ('Tryphon' phone listing); 1916, 28 Cavandish Sq. W, London ('Mrs' in classifieds); abt 1919, Roughwood Park, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks, England.

See obituary in The Times, 23 Jun 1947. He provided a welcoming home to Dominie and Alexis Vlasto shortly after the WWI armistice - see the amusing account in Dominie, Lady Nicholls' 'Quite A Lot' (2001).

He lived at Roughwood Park from around 1919 to the 1940s. From the Rating Valuation lists in the Bucks Record Office it appears that in February 1916 Roughwood Park House was "in a bad state of repair and empty" but by April 1919 the house with 60 acres had been bought by T. A. Agelasto. (Chalfont St Giles History Society). The house and its 60-acre estate appear to have served as an SOE training school in WWll (Station No 42), one of its commanders being Maj. V. E. Blomfield.

His two sons were his estates' co-executors. Solicitors: Broad & Son, 1, Great Winchester Street, EC2, London.

In 1958 he put on the market a "Georgian Period House, North Bedfordshire" (The Times [London], 24 Oct 1958).

"Mr. Tryphon Agelastos, of London" was one of the sponsors behind "The History of Chios" by Zolotas.

Attended the funeral of Emmanuel M Rodocanachi, according to The Times (London), 18 Feb 1932.

He is probably the Mr. T. Agelasto who attended the funeral of Eustratius 'Strati' (Pandia) Ralli, according to The Times (London), 10 Mar 1932.

Mr. T. Agelasto attended the funeral of Sir Lucas Ralli, The Times (London), 11 May 1931, p 15.

Agelasto was awarded class modern 4 prize, upper school, Liverpool College (Liverpool Mercury, 26 Jun 1880).

1871 England census [West Derby]: 15 Locherby Road, Liverpool, household headed A. S. Agelasto, 55, cotton broker; wife Lucy, 40, both b. Chios; son Stephen, 18, b. Syros; Harriet, 17, b. Manchester; John, 15; Delphina, 14; Helen, 10, Triphon, 9; Aspasia, 7; Lucy, 5, all scholars, b. Liverpool; & 5 servants. Lived adjacent to the C. T. Rodocanachi family and two doors down from the Constantine M. Ralli family.

1881 England census [West Derby rural]: Locherby Road, West Derby, Lancashire: Augustus S. Agelasto, 66, married; unmarried sons Stephen, 28, both , cotton brokesr, b. Greece; John, 26, cotton salesman, b. Liverpool; Tryphon, 17; daughters Aspasia, 16; Lucie, 14, all scholars, b. Liverpool; & 2 servants.

1911 England census for the household at Greys Lodge headed by Tryphon Agelasto, 46, b. Liverpool, married, East Indian merchant, 4 children born alive, two still living; wife Christine, 38, b. London; sons Augustus, 5, b. Karachi, India; John, 4, b. Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Catherine Agelasto, 40, visitor, single, b. London; 6 servants.

1921 Census of England and Wales includes: Tryphon Agelasto, b. 1864, Liverpool, Lancashire, England; Edith A; Mary E; in a household in Chalfont St Giles, Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

The 1939 England and Wales Register for the address 30 Roehampton Lane, Wandsworth, London, lists Tryphon Agelasto, b. 10 Jun 1862, Widowed, East Indian Merchant.

Mofussil Directory for GANJAM: Ralli Brothers’ seed & grain exchange, Ferozepore: - Agents, T.A. Agelasto and C.T. Sofio.

Mr. Agelasto was a passenger on the SS. Kola, from Karachi, arriving [Bombay] 2 Apr 1903 (The Times of India, 6 Apr 1903).

T. Agelasto was elected to the management committee of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting 8 Mar 1904 (The Times of India, 9 Mar 1904). He was part of a CofC delegation 28 Oct 1906; with 'Messrs. Ralli Brother' reelected to CofC managing committee for 1908-09; elected vice-chairman 12 May 1908.

Mr. T. Agelasto was expected to arrive Bombay from Marseille aboard the Caledonien 2 Dec 1909.

Mr. T. Agelasto departed Karachi for Marseille/Liverpool aboard the City of Glasgow 20 Jul 1910.

Tryphon Agelasto [17 Palace Court] appears on the 1914, 1915 UK electoral register, Paddington parliamentary division, Westminster county/borough; [30 Fairacres, Roehampton Lane SW15] 1939 Putney/Wandsworth; 1946, Clapham, Putney and Streatham/Wandsworth.

Agelasto, Tryphon A., Esq. Roughwood Park, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. was a fellow of the Zoological Society of London, 1924.

Christened:
Date from baptism register. Argenti says 27 Jun 1862 (same date in the Greek Gazette.

Archimandrite Constantine Stratoulis officiating.

Birth:
The baptism record says 'Grove Street,' which likely means Falkner Terrace.

Date from birth certificate, a copy of which his granddaughter Carolyn possesses.

Buried:
burial plot 38593, sq 42, no. 246 on Greek plan, reg. pg. 18733, no. 79027

Died:
Will dated 21 September 1939, which his granddaughter Carolyn has.

Tryphon married Christine (John) Agelasto on 24 Oct 1903 in St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England UK. Christine (daughter of John Michael (Michael) Agelasto and Aglaïa (Ioannis) Baltazzi) was born on 23 Jul 1871 in London, England UK; was christened on 08 Oct 1871 in Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England UK; died on 11 Nov 1935 in Roughwood Park, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, England UK; was buried on 15 Nov 1935 in Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Listed also by Argenti as #187.

In her memoirs 'Quite A Lot', Dominie Nicholls (née Vlasto) describes being sent (with her sister and brother) to stay with the Agelastos during WWII.

Residence (presumably with husband): 1905, Karachi, India; 1906, 115 Inverness Terrace, W, London; 1916, probably 28 Cavandish Sq. W, London; abt 1919, Roughwood Park, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks, England. See: http://www.chalfonthistory.co.uk/rowwood.html

A Mrs. Agelasto, 28 Cavandish Sq. W, London, advertized for a general cook and parlour maid in The Times [London], 1 Apr 1916]. Later living at Roughwood Park, she advertized for a cook for "four in family, five servants" (The Times [London], 4 Mar 1919]; for a "housemaid, experienced, head of two; house very comfortable, four in family, five servants" (The Times [London], 7 Jul 1920]; for a "parlourmaid, experienced, single-handed with help. 4 in family 6 servants; house very comfortable, own bedroom" (The Times [London], 19-20-21 Apr 1922); the next year for another cook (The Times [London], 8 May 1923].

Attended the funeral of Emmanuel M Rodocanachi, according to The Times (London), 18 Feb 1932.

1881 England census: 22 Pembridge Crescent household headed by John M Agelasto, 45, widower, stock and share agent, b. Greece; sons Michel, 15; Pendley, 14; daughters Katherine, 13; Mary, 12; Alexandra, 10; Christine, 9; and Lucy, 6; all b. London; & 6 servants.

1891 England census: 22 Pembridge Crescent household headed by John M Agelasto, 55, widower, stock broker agent, b. Greece, naturalized British subject; daughters Catherine, 23; Mary, 22; Christine, 19; and Lucy, 15, all b. London; & 7 servants.

1911 England census for the household at Greys Lodge headed by Tryphon Agelasto, 46, b. Liverpool, married, East Indian merchant, 4 children born alive, two still living; wife Christine, 38, b. London; sons Augustus, 5, b. Karachi, India; John, 4, b. Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Catherine Agelasto, 40, visitor, single, b. London; 6 servants.

Christine Agelasto (16 1/2), 22 Pembridge Crescent, London W., received an honourable mention, Competition V, Single Dolls, Award of Prizes in the 1888 Special Competitions, Little Folks (London, England), 1 Jan 1889, p. 69.

Christened:
God-parents: Maria Th. Negroponte (represented by George Frangopoulos).

Certificate incorrectly states Syros as place of origin

Died:
Death announcement in The Times (London) 13 Nov and 14 Nov 1935, p 1.

Estate valued at £2410 3s 3d, administered at London 19 Feb 1935, went to widower.

Buried:
burial plot 38593, sq 42, no. 246 on Greek plan, reg. pg. 17758, no. 71226

Notes:

Married:
Marriage Witnesses: S. A. Agelasto and Athanasios D. Macropoulos; A. Paraschis presiding; entry 240.

Argenti says 23 Oct 1903.

Marriage announcement appeared in The Times (London), 27 Oct 1903, p 1.

Marriage date from certificate in possession of their granddaughter Carolyn.

Notes:

The 1939 England and Wales Register for the address 39 Nunroyd Road, Leeds, Yorkshire, lists Frank L Watson, b. 15 Nov 1871, Chartered Mechanical Engineer; wife Charlotte E Watson, b. 25 Jan 1868, Unpaid Domestic Duties.

1921 Census Of England & Wales includes: Charlotte Pristley Watson, b. 1904, Headingley, Yorkshire; Frank Leslie Watson, b. 1871, Shirburn, Oxfordshire; Charlotte Ethel Watson, b. 1868, Leeds, Yorkshire; Nigel Watson, b. 1901, Headingley, Yorkshire; for a household in Leeds, Yorkshire (West Riding).

Died:
Obituary, The Engineer, 9 Feb 1951

Frank married Charlotte Ethel (John) Barber. Charlotte was born on 25 Jan 1868 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England UK; was christened on 22 Feb 1868 in St John the Evangelist, Leeds, Yorkshire, England UK; died on 11 Jan 1950 in White House Nursing Home, Stoney Cross, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1939 England and Wales Register for the address 39 Nunroyd Road, Leeds, Yorkshire, lists Frank L Watson, b. 15 Nov 1871, Chartered Mechanical Engineer; wife Charlotte E Watson, b. 25 Jan 1868, Unpaid Domestic Duties.

1921 Census Of England & Wales includes: Charlotte Pristley Watson, b. 1904, Headingley, Yorkshire; Frank Leslie Watson, b. 1871, Shirburn, Oxfordshire; Charlotte Ethel Watson, b. 1868, Leeds, Yorkshire; Nigel Watson, b. 1901, Headingley, Yorkshire; for a household in Leeds, Yorkshire (West Riding).

Notes:

He is also found on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree.

Occupation: merchant, 1859, 23 Brunswick Buildings, Liverpool; cotton broker; Meugens & Agelasto, 2 Manchester Buildings, Tithebarn St., Liverpool (Lancs), partnership dissolved 1859; 1868, Victoria Buildings, Hackins Hey, Liverpool.

Residence: bef 1822 Chios; 1827-1840 Syros; 1851, 45 Broughton Cottage, Salford, Manchester, England; 1855-66, Grove Street, Falkner Terrace No 171, Liverpool, England; 1881, 24 Lockerby Road, Liverpool; at DOD, 15 Lockerby Road, Fairfield, Liverpool.

1851 England census: Broughton Cottage, Salford, England household headed by Augustus Agelasto, 35, unmarried, merchant, b. Cio [sic] Greece, and 1 servant.

1861 England census: 175 Grove Street, Liverpool, household headed by Augustus Agelasto, 45, cotton broker, b. Chios; wife Lucy Coronio, 30, b. Constantinople; sons Stephen, 8, b. Syros; John, 6; George, 4; daughters Despina, 5; Henrietta, 7; Hellen, 2 Mo, all b. Liverpool; & 3 servants.

1871 England census [West Derby]: 15 Locherby Road, Liverpool, household headed A. S. Agelasto, 55, cotton broker; wife Lucy, 40, both b. Chios; son Stephen, 18, b. Syros; Harriet, 17, b. Manchester; John, 15; Delphina, 14; Helen, 10, Triphon, 9; Aspasia, 7; Lucy, 5, all scholars, b. Liverpool; & 5 servants. Lived adjacent to the C. T. Rodocanachi family and two doors down from the Constantine M. Ralli family.

1881 England census [West Derby rural]: Locherby Road, West Derby, Lancashire: Augustus S. Agelasto, 66, married; unmarried sons Stephen, 28, both , cotton brokesr, b. Greece; John 26, cotton salesman, b. Liverpool; Tryphon, 17; daughters Aspasia, 16; Lucie, 14, all scholars, b. Liverpool; & 2 servants.

Liverpool Electoral Registers for Augustus Agelasto: 1860, Hackin's Hey (counting house), 1860, 1865, Grove St. (house); 1868-1870, Lockerby road (house & garden); 1870, [as Augustus Stephen Agelasto], Lockerby Rd., Fairfield (abode); 1870, 1975 Victoria Buildings, 24 Hackin's Hey (counting house). He is also included, 1870, on the list of persons "objected to, as not being entitled to have their names retained in the list of persons qualified to vote."

11 Apr 1840: Augustus St. Agelasto, 23, unmarried, born Chios, merchant, arriving Syros 1827, swore allegiance to the government at the town hall, Ermoupolis.

An A.S.Agelasto is listed as the manager of the Bank of Constantinople (The Times [London], 10 Mar 1884; Pall Mall Gazette 10 Mar 1884) but this could be a misprint as his son, Stephen Augustus Agelasto, held this position.

A.S. Agelasto charity: £1 1s in the subscription for the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 (Manchester Times 20 Jul 1850); £5 to a relief fund to aid British expatriate families suffering during political upheaval in India (Liverpool Mercury [LM] 7 Oct 1857); £2 to The Hartley Colliery Accident fund (LM 30 Jan 1862); £5 to the Cephalonia Relief Fund (LM 26 Mar 1867); £3 3s. to the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society (LM, 25 Mar 1871); £5 to The Liverpool Bulgarian Relief Fund (LM 21 Sep 1876); £5 to the Haydock Colliery Relief Fund (LM 19/20/22 Jun 1878); £50 to The Chio Earthquake Relief Fund (LM 15/20 Apr 1881).

A.S. Agelasto auctioned off 18 bales of Orleans cotton damaged by sea water (Liverpool Mercury 23 Dec 1868). On sale "at the broker's office, Victoria buildings, Hackins Hey [Liverpool], Cotton - 37 bales Egyptian, Ex-Egyptian and Dido."(Liverpool Mercury 1866) (Daphne Casdagli).

Along with other Liverpool merchants in the Levant trade, he signed a petition to the city's Dock Committee asking them to extend dock on the Liverpool rather than the Cheshire side of the Mercy (Liverpool Mercury, 30 Oct 1857).

Agelasto, gent., Greece, arrived Dover, England, aboard the Princess Alice, 28 Aug 1852, from Calais, France. A.S. Agelasto, merchant, b. Greece, arrived London aboard the Panther, 9 Apr 1853, from Ostend, Belgium. A. Agelasto, merchant, Greece, arrived Dover, England, aboard the Rubis Com Michel, 3 Mar 1858, from Ostend, Belgium.

Augustin Agelasto, b. Greece, merchant, arrived Dover, England from France, 1 Jul 1844.

Agelasto, Augustus Stephen appears on the Grand Trunk Railway Company Of Canada's List Of Shareholders, Oct 1875.

Died:
Probate says he died 25 Apr 1884.

His estate, probated in London, was handled by son Stephen, one of the executors.

Augustus married Loukia (Zannis) Coronio on 21 Aug 1851 in Manchester, Lancashire, England UK. Loukia (daughter of Zannis (Zorzis) Coronio and Despina (Theodore) Negroponte) was born on 12 Oct 1831 in Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece; died on 23 Dec 1912 in Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her details and ancestry are found on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree.

Residence: 1851, 45 Broughton Cottage, Salford, Manchester, England; 1881, 24 Locherby Road, West Derby (Lancs), England.

1871 England census [West Derby]: 15 Locherby Road, Liverpool, household headed A. S. Agelasto, 55, cotton broker; wife Lucy, 40, both b. Chios; son Stephen, 18, b. Syros; Harriet, 17, b. Manchester; John, 15; Delphina, 14; Helen, 10, Triphon, 9; Aspasia, 7; Lucy, 5, all scholars, b. Liverpool; & 5 servants. Lived adjacent to the C. T. Rodocanachi family and two doors down from the Constantine M. Ralli family.

The 1861 England census: 175 Grove Street, Liverpool, household headed by Augustus Agelasto, 45, cotton broker, b. Chios; wife Lucy Coronio, 30, b. Constantinople; sons Stephen, 8, b. Syros; John, 6; George, 4; daughters Despina, 5; Henrietta, 7; Hellen, 2 Mo, all b. Liverpool; & 3 servants.

Philanthropy: Lucia Agelasto donated 100 Drachmas to Queen Amalia Orphanage of Athens in 1856 as well as £2 to the Chios Hospital in 1872
according to unpublished research by Demetrios Melachrinoudis. According to Reports on Hygiene Institutions of Chios by the same author, she also contributed to the hospital in 1874.

Notes:

Married:
Argenti says 9 Aug 1851.

Entry: 016/015; Marriage Witnesses: Emmanuel Dontas and Despina L. Ziffo; priest: Daniel Petroulias.

Rev. D. Petrulia presided

Marriage announcement in Manchester Guardian, 23 Aug 1851, p 11.

Notes:

UK Naturalisation: John Michael Agelasto, Greece, 7 Apr 1881, residence London; home office paper A2284; certificate A3449.

1911 England Census: Mr. Agelasto headed the household at 25 Lansdowne Road, Kensington, which included 1 male and 4 females

Philanthropy: John Michael Agelasto is listed in 1870 among the founders of the Greek School in London according to unpublished research by Demetrios Melachrinoudis.

The 1911 England census, London, includes John M Agelasto, b. abt 1836; daughter Lucy, b. abt 1875.

1911 England census for the household at 25 Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill W, Kensington, London, headed by John M Agelasto, 75, b. Greece, widowed, stock exchange agent, naturalized Brit; daughter Lucy, 36, single; 3 servants.

John Mitchell Agelasto [22 Pembridge Crescent] appears on the 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907; [John Michael Agelasto, 25 Lansdowne Road] 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915 electoral register, Kensington North parliamentary division, Kensington and Chelsea/borough electoral lists, Great Britain; 1918, 1919 Kensington/Kensington and Chelsea.

Agelasto, John Michael, 25 Lansdowne Road, Holland park W, appears in Royal Blue Book (London, May 1911).

Birth:
Argenti incorrectly reports 26 Sep 1835.

Christened:
God-parent: Marouko [Maria] Theodore Ralli [wife of Theodore Ralli, probably Marouko Alexander Ziffo].

Entry #589, 1835 register

The church register does not give the exact date of baptism, but rather the date of registration of the certificate with civil authorities (24 November), which is perhaps 1-2 days after baptism (George Agelastos). The archives registers gives the date 18 Jul 1835.


Died:
His death announcement appeared in The Times (London), 12 Nov 1919, p 1.

Buried:
burial plot no. 8641

John married Aglaïa (Ioannis) Baltazzi on 01 Mar 1862 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Aglaïa (daughter of Ioannis (Evangelos) Baltazzi and Aikaterine (George) Petrocochino) was born on 23 Nov 1841 in rue [Deuxieme] Calade 18 [38?], Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France; died on 09 Dec 1877 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; was buried in St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence: at DOD, cours Pierre Puget 24, Marseille, France.

1871 England census: 22 Pembridge Crescent household headed by J M Agelasto, 35, merchant, b. Syros, Greece; wife Aglaia, 29, b. Marseille; sons Michel, 5; Pendley, 4; daughters Katherine, 3; Mary, 2 mos., Alexandra, 11 months; all b. London; father Michael P., 68, retired merchant; mother Marie M., 57, both b. Chios [Scio, Turkey]; & 6 servants.

Her sister Maria is on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree.

Philanthropy: Aglaia Agelasto donated £5 to the Chios Hospital in 1872 according to unpublished research by Demetrios Melachrinoudis.

Birth:
Her birth certificate was signed by George (Eustratius) Petrocochino, her maternal grandfather.

Name:
Or Aglaë on documents.

Notes:

Married:
Witnesses at their wedding included George Petrocochino, 73, merchant, her maternal grandfather; Alexandre Doruiario; Michel Parembli, 46, her uncle, allees du Capucines 8; and Stamatios Nicolas Frangopoulos, his brother-in-law.