Lucas (Dimitrios) Ralli^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1794 - 1879  (85 years)

• Name	Lucas (Dimitrios) Ralli
  Birth	1794	Chios, Greece
  Gender	Male
  Death	29 Dec 1879	Piraeus, Attica, Greece
  	The 1878-79 death index in Vital Statistics, Piraeus, Greece, lists Lukas Ralli, p 744.
  Notes	Mayor of Piraeus, Greece. Stephanos Th. Xeno's illustrated book 'The World Exhibition' (London 1852) about the 1851 Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, was dedicated to Lucas Ralli, now in the collection of St Sophia, London. (Christopher Long) Member of the Executive Committee which attempted the liberation of Chios in 1827. Grand Officer of the Order of the Saviour, Greece. Lived on Syros and at Piraeus. Committed to improving the educational system and opened the first Boy's grammar school in Piraeus. Wrote to Constantine Ionides in London asking for help with these projects. He is likely to have signed a letter to the provisory Greek Parliament in 1825 demanding it include a Chiot deputy. Lucas Ralli was among the 327 Chiot refugees in Syros who signed a letter dated 10 Jul 1829 to the Governor of Greece. Residence: -1822 Chios; 1925-1829 Syros; 1842 Athens. Lucas D. Ralli, 38, married, b. Chios, arrived Syros 182?, merchant, swore allegiance to the Greek state on 27 Nov 1834 at the Holy Cathedral Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour Christ (Metamorphosis), Ermoupolis, Syros. [5]
  Person ID	I2197	Negroponte-Agelasto
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2011

  
  

  Father	Dimitrios (Zannis) Ralli,   b. 1758, Chios, Greece d. 14 Feb 1812, Livorno [Leghorn], Italy/Tuscany (Age 54 years)
  Mother	Catherine (Pericles) Negroponte   d. 12 Nov 1846, Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece
  Marriage	This union is cited in a list of 17 marriage alliances that connected Ralli Bros employees in India with the Rallis through intermarriage. [6]
  Family ID	F947	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Despina (Paul) Rodocanachi,   b. 24 Jun 1805, Chios, Greece d. 10 Oct 1880, Piraeus, Attica, Greece (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	1827
  	This union is cited in a list of 17 marriage alliances that connected Ralli Bros employees in India with the Rallis through intermarriage. [6] This marriage was the model in Dimitri Vikelas' Loukis Laris, according to Philip Chrissovelonis. [7]
  Children	+ 1. Calliope (Lucas) Ralli,   b. 06 Jan 1829, Aegina, Saronic Islands, Greece d. 14 Feb 1891, Athens, Attica, Greece (Age 62 years)   2. Catherine (Lucas) Ralli,   b. 22 Sep 1830, Syros, Cyclades Islands, Greece d. 17 May 1849, Piraeus, Attica, Greece (Age 18 years)   3. Dimitri (Lucas) Ralli,   b. 24 Mar 1842, Piraeus, Attica, Greece d. 26 Dec 1858, Piraeus, Attica, Greece (Age 16 years)   4. Arghyri (Lucas) Ralli,   b. 29 Apr 1848, Piraeus, Attica, Greece d. 20 Nov 1924, Piraeus, Attica, Greece (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F946	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Nov 2010

  
  

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  		Loukas Rallis courtesy PANDEKTIS digital database
  		Loukas Rallis courtesy PANDEKTIS digital database
  		Loukas Rallis From the website: Greek and linked European Families

  
  

  Documents

  Philip L. Chryssoveloni, Chios through the Ages (Athens, 1937) Lucas Dimitrios Ralli is included, page 73.

  
  

• Sources

  [S21] Ioannis Vlachojannis (editor), 1825 Letter from Chiots on Syros, (Archives of Modern Greek History Part C - The Chios Archives v2: Athens 1910), 1825, 36. [S29] Timoleon Ambelas, History of the Island of Syros, (Ermoupolis, Syros, 1874; republished 1998 by Christos A. Kalimeris), 506. 10 Jul 1829 letter to the Governor of Greece from 327 Chiot refugees living in Syros. [S34] PANDEKTIS - Digital Thesaurus of Primary Sources for Greek History and Culture. [S49] Χρυσοβελόνης, Φίλιππος Λ [Philip L. Chryssoveloni], Χίος και Χίοι διά μέσου των αιώνων, (digital document, originally published Athens,1937), 73. [S25] Greek State Archives (Syros). [S45] Paul Byron Norris, Ulysses in the Raj, (BACSA, 1992; ISBN 0907799469), 123. [S57] Dione Marcos-Dodis, A Chronicle of the Greeks in India: 1750-1950, (Dodoni Publications, Athens, 2002; ISBN 960-385-160-4), 63. The Ralli Family and Chios, Chapter 3, pp 59-68.