Cosi (Augustis) Agelasto^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1791 - 1865  (74 years)

• Name	Cosi (Augustis) Agelasto
  Birth	1791	Chios, Greece
  	birth year according to Argenti
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Oct 1865	Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
  Burial	St. Stephen Cemetery, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey   [5, 6]
  	Georgiadis lists three Chiot graves in the St Stephen cemetery, one of which is: Cozìs A. Agelastos, 74 years, born in 1791 in Chios, died 1 Oct 1865 in Agios Stephanos [Constantinople], cited by Zolotas who names him: Cozis (or Constantinos) Agelasto.
  Notes	He appears on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree. Occupation: merchant; putative founder of Ralli & Agelasto, 1837, Tabreez, Persia. His wife was a Ralli. An Agelasto living in Liverpool/Manchester in the mid 19th Century was most likely involved in one of the Ralli companies, Ralli & Agelasto, doing business in Constantinople, Trebizond, Tabriz and Liverpool, 1837-71. See chart in Chapman, p. 156. He is the putative Agelasto who in May 1837 (with S.A. Ralli, P.A. Ralli and G.N. Eumorfopoulo) set up a branch of Ralli Brothers (London) and Ralli Schilizzi & Argenti (Marseilles) in Persia (Tabreez) under the name of Ralli & Agelasto. In Tabreez, Persia, in Jan 1840, a branch of the Constantinople firm Toumasi Ralli & Co. was constituted under the style of Ralli & Agelasto, managed by G.N. Eumorfopoulo assisted by J. Sangrandi and A.A. Sepsi. Cozis Agelasto & Co. is mentioned as a commercial enterprise by George P. Georgialo, The Holy Church of Saint John of the Chiots at Galata, Constantinople, 1898, cited in: George Zolotas, History of Chios, p 263. Based on the accounting records of St John Church, Georgiadis makes an alphabetical list of Chiot enterprises [of Constantinople] that sponsored the Church in the time from 1843 to 1880. There is no mention of year/date. Included among Agelastos enterprises is: Cozís Agelastos & Co. His portrait appears in T. Catsiyannis, Pandias Stephen Rallis 1793-1865. Residence: 1828, rue le Maitre 8, Marseille, France; 1859, Constantinople. The parternships: Ralli Brothers, London; E. Ralli, Manchester; Thos. Ralli and Co. Constantinople; Ralli Brothers, Odessa; Ralli and Scaramanga, Taigan Rock; Ralli, Schilizzi, and Argenti, Marseilles; and Ralli and Aghelasto, Tauris [Tabriz, Iran] existed until 1839, at which point Antonio Ralli, Stephen Ralli, Pantia Ralli, of Tauris, and Michael Ralli left them (London Gazette 1 Nov 1839). Presumably he was born on and resided until 1822 at the St. Tryphon property, Kampos, Chios. Philanthropy: Cozìs Agelasto bequeathed in 1860 30.000 Grosia to the National Hospital of Heptapyrgion [in Constantinople], 30.000 Gr to the Chios Hospital, 5.000 Gr to the Boys School of Stavrodromion [in Constantinople], 5.000 Gr to the Greek Literature Club [in Constantinople] and other sums to several institutions, in total 100.000 Grosia according to unpublished research by Demetrios Melachrinoudis. [7]
  Person ID	I22	Agelasto
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2015

  
  

  Father	Chadji Augustis (Zannis) Agelasto,   b. Chios, Greece d. Chios, Greece
  Mother	Angeliki (Zannis) Negroponte,   b. Abt 1760, Chios, Greece d. 1822, Chios, Greece (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	Chios, Greece
  	The ten year gap between the two three-child groups and the absence of female births is not explained.
  Family ID	F32	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Vierou (Stephanos) Ralli,   b. 30 Dec 1801, Chios, Greece d. 17 Sep 1885, 18 Hyde Park Square, London, England UK (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	22 May 1819	Chios, Greece
  	This union is cited in a list of 13 marriage alliances that connected the Rallis with the founders of other Chiot firms in Calcutta. [8]
  Children	1. Angeliki (Cosi) Agelasto,   b. 10 Jun 1820, Chios, Greece d. 04 Jun 1828, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (Age 7 years) + 2. Augustus (Cosi) Agelasto,   b. 31 Mar 1823, Tinos, Cyclades Islands, Greece d. 08 Jul 1883, 18 Hyde Park Square, London, England UK (Age 60 years) + 3. Stephanos Cosis (Cosi) Agelasto,   b. 14 Mar 1832, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey d. 25 Jan 1896, St Dionysios parish, Athens, Greece (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F36	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2010

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1791 - Chios, Greece Marriage - 22 May 1819 - Chios, Greece Death - 13 Oct 1865 - Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey Burial - - St. Stephen Cemetery, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Cosi Augustis Agelasto
  		Cozi Augustus Agelasto
  		Cosi (Augustis) Agelasto
  		Marseille residences Cosi Augustis Agelasto and his family lived at 8 Le Maitre Street, Marseille, France, 1828-1849 (photographed in 2008)
  		Marseille residences Le Maitre Street, Marseille, France, on which Cosi Augustis Agelasto and his family lived 1828-1849 (photographed in 2008).

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Chapman on Ralli enterprises, p 155
  		Ralli Enterprises chart from Chapman's book.
  		Georgios Georgiadis, The Holy Church of St John of the Chiots in Galata (Constantinople, 1898), 280-281.
  		Georgios Georgiadis, The Holy Church of St John of the Chiots in Galata (Constantinople, 1898), 232-233.
  		1859 Constantinople census Cozis Agelasto, merchant, no. 151 Street [name illegible] is identified in the 1859 census of Greek residents of Stavrodromion, Constantinople/Istanbul.
  		Ralli Bros London Company Label

  
  

• Sources

  [S119] Philip P. Argenti, Argenti 1955, (London Oxford University Press). Included in Philip Argenti's Agelasto family tree, number 22. [S7] Stanley Chapman, Stanley Chapman, Merchant Enterprise in Britain: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I , (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 155-6. [S13] Charles Issawi, Cross-Cultural Encounters and Conflicts , (Oxford University Press, 1998), 111. "The Greeks in the Middle East" [S18] Timotheos (Bishop of Militoupolis) Catsiyannis, Pandias Stephen Rallis 1793-1865, (London, 1986). [S2] Georgios Zolotas, Zolotas' History of Chios, (PD Sakellarios, 1928, Athens.), 263. [S15] Georgios Georgiadis, The Holy Church of St John of the Chiots in Galata , (Constantinople, 1898 [in Greek]), 281, 232. [S88] Demetrios Melachrinoudis, Chiot Emigrants, (unpublished research 2009). [S62] Paul Byron Norris, Ulysses in the Raj, (BACSA, 1992; ISBN 0907799469), 123.