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Pericles (George) Zarifi[1]

Male 1844 - 1927  (83 years)


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  • Name Pericles (George) Zarifi 
    Birth 27 Mar 1844  Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 05 Jul 1927  allées Léon Gambetta, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 06 Jul 1927  St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Cemetery 1927 register north carré 2, no. 15, 83 years old, Gambetta, entry 6251.
    Notes 
    • Residence, Marseilles, France: 1871-72, boulevard de Longchamp 72 and Cours du Chapitre 11; 1873, 1876, 1884 avenue du Prado 193; 1885, allees des Capucines 20 [for son's birth]; 1898-1909, allees des Capucines 14. [2]
    • Occupation: merchant; 1898, with Zafiropulo & Zarifi; founded Zarifi & sons (Societe Zarifi fils), Marseille. [3, 4]
    • He signed the birth certificates of Paul (Emmanuel) Rodocanachi, his wife's second cousin, and of his grand-daughter Argine Mitaranga and his grandson Stephane Pericles Georges Zarifi.
    • Chevalier, Legion of Honor
    • He was in partnership with Nicholas Zarifi, Leonidas Georges Zarifi, Pandely Simiriotti, Stephen Zafiropulo, Michael Zarifi, John Michael Zarifi, and Theodore Michael Zarifi, merchants, 21 Great Winchester Street, London, under the firm of Zarifi Brothers and Co.; at Constantinople, under the firm of Zarifi Brothers, Sons, and Co.; and at Marseilles, under the firm of Zafiropulo and Zarifi until dissolved 30 Jun 1886 (London Gazette 30 July 1886).
    • Pericles Zarifi, banker, 20 allees des Capucines, Marseille, was a general member, from 1867, Association for the Encouragement of Greek Studies, Paris, France. [5]
    • The nephew of one of the leading merchants of the second generation of Greeks in Marseille, Étienne Zafiropoulo. He has been called the principal Greek capitalist in Marseille at the time and a pivotal figure in that city’s Greek community, (citing a 1961 French report). He was part of the Marseille commercial house Zarifi-Zafiropoulo -- originally a processor of Russian wheat into flour -- which he ran after the death of his uncle Étienne Zafiropoulo in 1894, supervising the transition from a business in a traditional commercial economy to that in an industrializing society. He made a fortune in real estate and lost much through fraudulant action by Alexandria banks around 1911. [6, 7]
    • Pericles Zarifi participated in Marseille's Greek church deliberations in 1876 & 1877 (Calapodis). [8]
    • Calapodis, citing the Zarifi private archives: "Jamais Périclès Zarifi n'acheta ni n'autorisa ses enfants à acheter une propriété, une maison, de beaux bijoux, des oeuvres d'art, des valeurs mobilières mais jamais un are de terrain." [9]
    • He was a witness to the marriage of Catherine Negroponte and Hector Demetri A. Economo, Paris, 21 Jun 1893.
    Person ID I177  Negroponte-Agelasto
    Last Modified 27 Mar 2018 

    Father George (Ioannis) Zarifi,   b. 06 Sep 1807, Mega Revma, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 06 Apr 1884, Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Eleni (Dimitrios) Zafiropoulo,   b. 07 Jul 1817, Tzoubali, Phanar, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 May 1910, Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years) 
    Family ID F170  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Fanny (Theodore) Rodocanachi,   b. 01 Sep 1849, quartier Saint Giniez, Marseille 8e, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Oct 1925, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 24 Jan 1871  Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Georges (Pericles) Zarifi,   b. 14 Nov 1871, boulevard Longchamp 72, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Nov 1910, allées des Capucines 20, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
    +2. Theodore Pericles (Pericles) Zarifi,   b. 31 Jul 1873, avenue du Prado 193, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 06 Dec 1949, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
     3. Olga Helene (Pericles) Zarifi,   b. 10 Jul 1876, avenue du Prado 193, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 08 Jan 1891, allées des Capucines 20, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 14 years)
    +4. Marie (Pericles) Zarifi,   b. 15 Aug 1884, avenue du Prado 193, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Dec 1980, rue Silvabelle 23, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 96 years)
     5. Nicolas Pericles (Pericles) Zarifi,   b. 12 Oct 1885, allées des Capucines 20, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Nov 1940, avenue du Prado 441, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
    Documents
    Pericles Zarifi - Fanny Rodocanachi marriage certificate
    Pericles Zarifi - Fanny Rodocanachi marriage certificate
    Zarifi - Rodocanachi marriage certificate
    Zarifi - Rodocanachi marriage certificate
    Civil registration records, Marseille
    Family ID F64  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Aug 2008 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 27 Mar 1844 - Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 24 Jan 1871 - Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 05 Jul 1927 - allées Léon Gambetta, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 06 Jul 1927 - St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Photos
    boulevard de Longchamp 72, Marseille, France
    boulevard de Longchamp 72, Marseille, France
    home to Pericles & Fanny Zarifi and where their son George was born; photo 2009.
    cours Joseph Thierry 11, Marseille, France
    cours Joseph Thierry 11, Marseille, France
    Street previously named cours du Chapitre; photo 2009. He was living here at the time of his marriage.
    cours Joseph Thierry 11, Marseille, France
    cours Joseph Thierry 11, Marseille, France
    detail; photo 2009
    avenue du Prado 193, Marseille, France
    avenue du Prado 193, Marseille, France
    Pericles G. and Fanny Zarifi lived at avenue du Prado 193, where their children Theodore, Olga and Marie were born in 1871-1876. The building has been replaced by the one in this 2009 photo.
    allées Léon Gambetta 14, Marseille, France
    allées Léon Gambetta 14, Marseille, France
    Theodore E. and Cleopatre Rodocanachi and family lived at 'allees des Capucines 14' 1871-1885, with children, including Fanny, her husband Pericles Zarifi and their sons George (1896) and Nicolas (1909); photo 2009; see note on street numbering.
    19-20 Great Winchester St., London, England
    19-20 Great Winchester St., London, England
    photo 2009; London renewed. Pericles G Zarifi was with Zarifi Brothers and Co., 21 Great Winchester Street (1886).
    Great Winchester St., London, England
    Great Winchester St., London, England
    British Library archive photo

    Headstones
    St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, France
    St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, France
    Zarifi tomb
    St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, France
    St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, France
    Zarifi tomb - detail
    St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, France
    St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, France
    Zarifi tomb - inscription

  • Sources 
    1. [S110] Erato Paris, Les Grecs de Marseille, (Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales).

    2. [S87] Michel Calapodis, Les Grecs a Marseille: Minorité ethnique ou nation en diaspora?, (Paris, L’Harmattan. 2012), 192, ISBN : 978-2-296-56823-5.

    3. [S83] Erato Paris, Quand les Grecs voyaient plus loin que la Méditerranée : les familles Zarifi-Zafiropoulo, (Recherches Regionales, Alpes-Maritimes et Contrées limitrophes, n 163, Jul-Sep 2002, pp 55-68.), 59.

    4. [S87] Michel Calapodis, Les Grecs a Marseille: Minorité ethnique ou nation en diaspora?, (Paris, L’Harmattan. 2012), 126, ISBN : 978-2-296-56823-5.

    5. [S62] Association for the Encouragement of Greek Studies, Revue des études grecques Vol 7 (1892), (Paris), LXXXVIII.

    6. [S59] Michel Calapodis, LA COMMUNAUTÉ GRECQUE À MARSEILLE, (Paris:L'Harmattan (link)), 32; 36-38; 88; 143.

    7. [S87] Michel Calapodis, Les Grecs a Marseille: Minorité ethnique ou nation en diaspora?, (Paris, L’Harmattan. 2012), 152, ISBN : 978-2-296-56823-5.
      citing: MEMOIRS OF G. L. ZARIFI
      Géorgios Léonidas Zarifis, Mes souvenirs. Un monde disparu, Constantinople 1800-1920, (éditions Trochalia), 397 p.

    8. [S87] Michel Calapodis, Les Grecs a Marseille: Minorité ethnique ou nation en diaspora?, (Paris, L’Harmattan. 2012), 177, ISBN : 978-2-296-56823-5.

    9. [S87] Michel Calapodis, Les Grecs a Marseille: Minorité ethnique ou nation en diaspora?, (Paris, L’Harmattan. 2012), 213, ISBN : 978-2-296-56823-5.



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