John (Ambrosios) Negroponte b. 29 May 1844 Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey d. 27 Sep 1918 Torbay Hotel, Torquay, Devon, England UK

1844 - 1918 (74 years)

Name	John (Ambrosios) Negroponte
Nickname	John Ambrose, Ioannis
Born	29 May 1844	Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey
Gender	Male
Died	27 Sep 1918	Torbay Hotel, Torquay, Devon, England UK
	Estate valued at £12012 9s, administered at London 19 Nov 1918, went to widow. [6] "Much regret is expressed at the death of Mr. J. A. Negroponte, who gave up business in Manchester a short time ago, after a long and honourable career." (The Manchester Guardian 1 Oct 1918, p 6)
Notes	He was one of the trustees, along with Themistocles Pandia Anthony (Pandia) Petrocochino and Manuel Anastasius Copchili, of the 2 Oct 1884 Indenture of Settlement [a prenuptial agreement] made between Aspasia (Themistocles) Petrocochino (his sister-in-law) and John Emmanuel (Emmanuel) Agelasto. He was in partnership with John Emmanuel Agelasto (after 1884 his brother-in-law by marriage) and John Antonio Ralli (Augustus and Despina Agelasto’s son-in-law); this presumably begun 1 Jan 1886 with the retirement of Despina Ralli Agelasto (Augustus C Agelasto’s widow), dissolved 31 Dec 1886 and the London office closed; he continued in partnership with JE Agelasto, trading as A. Agelasto & Co. The Calcutta office was on Canning Street, at the south-east corner of the China Bazaar. A. Agelasto & Co. terminated in 1916. The partnership of J.A. Negroponte, A Agelasto & F.C. Apostolides, export merchants, Manchester, under the style of A Agelasto & Co. was dissolved, London Gazette, 28 Mar 1916, reported in The Times (London), 29 Mar 1916, p 6. He was the co-executor of the estate of Stavros James Negroponte, his cousin. 1886 UK National Probate Calendar Index gives his address/occupation: 18 Breeze Hill, Kersal, near Manchester, merchant. Residence: -1873 Syros; 1877- Manchester; 1881, Sedgley Park, Prestwich, Lancashire; 1912, Enville Cottage, Green Walk, Bowdon, Chester, England; Winterbourne, Babbacombe Road, Torquay, England. The 1901 British census enumerates the household at Breezy Hill, Holden Street, Broughton, Lancashire: John Ambrose Negroponte, head, 57, shipping merchant, employer, Greek subject; wife Esmeralda, 41, born Bradford, Yorkshire; daughter Marie, 19, born Manchester; and three domestic servants. Manchester city directories list John A. Negroponte with A. Agelasto & Co., at 73 George St. (1877, 1911); residing at 'Breeze Hill', Holden St, Higher Broughton (1886, 1903-09); 'Norcliffe', Upper Park Road, Broughton Park (1911). Mr. Negroponte, a Constantinople merchant, was aboard the Rethymo when it sank on the Bosphorus (The Times [London], 31 Dec 1874). He was rescued and his £T 4,200 was retrieved. Mrs. and Mrs. John Ambrose Negroponte regularly appeared in the society pages of the Manchester Times, especially in the 'Belle to Phyllis' column. The ball given in the Manchester Assembly Rooms to honor the coming out of their daughter Maria in 1900 was, according to the columnist, "one of exceptional brilliance...seldom have the Assembly Rooms been so exquisitely decorated and so artistically illuminated." About 200 people attended and "the number would have been march larger had it not been for the prevailing epidemic [illegible] which kept many away at the last moment. Mrs. Negroponte's rich toilette was universally admired...[she] wore a diamond tiara. ("Mrs. Negroponte's Ball," Manchester Times, 12 Jan 1900). The guest list reads like a who's who of Manchester Greek society, the gown of each lady paintakingly described. For example, "Mrs. Theo Casdagli was also strikingly gowned in black, her dress being a mass of sequins over a petticoat of chiffon and relieved with red roses." "Mrs. Agelasto was richly gowned in black brocade and lace with touches of tourquoise on the bodice; and a beautiful dress of pink accordinan-pleated chiffon, the [?] draped half-way with Brussels lace, was worn by Mrs. Frangopulo [likely either Lucy Agelasto Frangopulo or one of her daughters-in-law]..." 6 Sep 1873: John Ambrosios Negroponte, 29, born Chios, unmarried, merchant, swore allegiance to the Greek government at the town hall, Ermoupolis. John Negroponte sailed from New York to Liverpool aboard the Scotia (New York Daily Tribune 3 Jul 1863 p 2). [without more detail this could apply to several Johns on our tree] John Negroponte attended the funeral of Stavros Jacobos Negroponte [his cousin] (Manchester Guardian 11 May 1886, p 5). He and his wife attended the 1 Jan 1891 wedding of her brother John T. Petrocochino. He received the bulk of his mother-in-law's estate, which ended up in court. John A. Negroponte is the likely Mr. Negroponte who was a member of the Manchester Cretan Committee ("The Cretan Question," Manchester Guardian, 15 Mar 1897, p 7). 1881 England Census found for Sedgley Park, Prestwich, Lancashire: T. P. Petrocokino, head, 56, general merchant; wife M., 41, both b. Greece; unmarried daughters Franga, 22; Aspasia, 20; Julia, 18, all b. Bradford, Yorkshire; John A. Negroponte, son-in-law, 34, East Indian Merchant, b. Constantinople; his wife E. Negroponte, 21, b. Bradford; and 12 servants. Negroponte John A, 63 George St. subscribed to the Manchester Royal Exchange, 1882-83. I. Negrepontis is listed as a warden for the Greek Church of Manchester, 1883-1885. [7] Two years before his death John Ambrose Negroponte went to court in Manchester to update an Indenture of Settlement, dated 31 Dec 1880, between him and Themistocles Pandia Anthony Petrocokino (his future father-in-law), Esmeralda Petrocokino (his future wife) and Andrea Pandia Scaramanga concerning £10,000 to be lent to his firm, Messrs A. Agelasto and Co. View transcription or original document (UK National Archives). 1911 England census for Norcliffe, Broughton Park Manchester, household headed by J A Negroponte, 67, b. Constantinople, Turkey, married 30 years, one child, one living, Greek; shipper of cotton goods to India; wife Esmeralda, 51, b. Bradford, Yorkshire; daughter Marie, 29, single, b. Manchester, Lancashire; 5 servants. J A Negroponte arrived Bombay from London aboard Sutlej 8 Nov 1888 and was among the passengers who signed a letter about the voyage, Times of India, 4 Dec 1888. J A Negroponte departed Bombay on Oriental, 7 Feb 1890, for Brindisi [Italy].
Person ID	I1185	Negroponte-Agelasto
Last Modified	21 Dec 2021

Father	Ambrosios Theodore (Theodore) Negroponte, b. 1800, Chios, Greece , d. 05 Jul 1872, Chios, Greece (Age 72 years)
Mother	Marouko (Dimitri) Vouro, b. Nov 1809, Chios, Greece , d. 25 Aug 1863, Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece (Age 53 years)
Family ID	F501	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Smaragda (Themistocles) Petrocochino, b. 01 Apr 1860, Bradford, Yorkshire, England UK , d. 09 May 1929, 3 The Grange, Wimbleton Common, Wimbledon, London, England UK (Age 69 years)

Married 08 Jan 1881 Higher Broughton, Salford, Greater Manchester, England UK

Entry: 472/146; Sponsor: Augustus C. Agelasto; witnesses: N.G. Paspatti, J.C. Zifinidi; priest: Vasilios Moros, Presbyter: M. Oeconomos. [8]
Marriage notice appeared in the The Pall Mall Gazette (London) 10 Jan 1881.
The marriage of John Ambrose Negroponte was registered Jan-Feb-Mar 1881, Salford, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, volume 8d, page: 135.

Notes

Marriage Settlement dated 31 Dec 1880. Subject of litigation, Jan 1916. £10,000 had been loaned to the firm A Agelasto & Co. by her father, Themistocles Pandia Anthony Petrocokino and Andrea Pandia Scaramanga, secured by a promissory note, dated 11 Mar 1887, subject to the trusts of the Indenture of Settlement. [9]

Children

1. Maria (Ioannis) Negroponte, b. 26 Nov 1881, Manchester, Lancashire, England UK

, d. 29 Nov 1961, Ditchling, Sussex, England UK

(Age 80 years)

Documents

Litigation involving Negroponte-Petrocochino Indenture of Settlement
1916 Letter no. 4

Last Modified 7 Aug 2011

Family ID F503 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Born - 29 May 1844 - Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey
	Married - 08 Jan 1881 - Higher Broughton, Salford, Greater Manchester, England UK
	Died - 27 Sep 1918 - Torbay Hotel, Torquay, Devon, England UK

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Photos » Slide Show		63 George St., Manchester, England Warehouse was former headquarters of A Agelasto & Co. photo 2011; courtesy John Papadachi.
		63 George St., Manchester, England photo 2011; courtesy John Papadachi.
		63 George St., Manchester, England photo 2011; courtesy John Papadachi.
		63 George St., Manchester, England detail; photo 2011; courtesy John Papadachi.
		63 George St., Manchester, England Agelasto nameplate; photo 2011; courtesy John Papadachi.
		George Street (high numbers, toward Oxford Street) photo 2015; John A. Negroponte worked for A. Agelasto & Co., at 73 George St. (1877, 1911)

Documents » Slide Show		A Agelasto & Co London Gazette 1 Jan 1886
		A Agelasto & Co. London Gazette 15 Feb 1887
		A Agelasto & Co. London Gazette 28 Mar 1916
		Metrope Petrocochino will "What is a Charitable Bequest?", The Manchester Guardian 13 Dec 1912, p 6
		John Ambrose Negreponte 1918 Probate
		Agelasto & Co., 63 George Street, Manchester, England list of partners, 1878-1899

Sources

[S1] Argenti 1955, Philip P. Argenti, (London Oxford University Press).
Included in Philip Argenti's Negroponte family tree, number 299.
[S25] Greek State Archives (Syros).
#135 Registry of Oaths of Allegiance
[S119] 1911 England Census.
[S125] 1901 England Census.
[S126] 1881 England Census.
[S82] UK National Probate Calendar Indexes, 1858-1966, 1973-1995.
[S52] A Personal History of the Greek Community of Manchester and Its Church, 1843-1900., Sophocles Chr. Andreades, (Manchester, 2000, ISBN 0-9504097-2-3), 52.
[S68] The Greek Gazette, Kyriakos Metaxas, editor, (London, England), 10, May 1996.
Marriage-No:0051
[S73] UK National Archives.
PL 31/622

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