Vierou (Stephanos) Ralli^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1801 - 1885  (83 years)

• Name	Vierou (Stephanos) Ralli
  Nickname	Virginia
  Birth	30 Dec 1801	Chios, Greece
  Gender	Female
  Death	17 Sep 1885	18 Hyde Park Square, London, England UK
  	Her will proved and the personalty sworn to £32,000, according to the Bristol Mercury and Daily Post 6 Nov 1885, which calls her Vleron Agelasto, formerly of Constantinople. Probate reported in Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertise, 12 Nov 1885, p 3. [5] Her executors were Alexander Anthony Vlasto and Stephen Augustus Ralli. She bequeathed real estate to her sons Augustus Agelasto and Stephano Agelasto; other property to son Augustus and nephew Pandeli Ralli, 17 Belgrave Square...[see her Last Will and Testament]. Death notice appeared in the Manchester Times (London) 26 Sep 1885. Burial register entry 65855. Archimandrite N. Myriatheos officiated.
  Burial	22 Sep 1885	Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK
  	burial plot no. 19794 Archimandrite Jerome officiating [6]
  Notes	Presumably the Mrs Agelasto of whom Mary Ann Chadwell writes in her 1868 diary: 'On Saturday (04-04-1868) I saw Mrs Agelasto and her son Augustus. It is eighteen years since we had met'. (Christopher Long) Georgiadis, in a footnote concerning Stephanos A. Rallis (who died 4 December 1884 in Paris at the age of 75), mentions his aunt Vieroù [wife of] Cozìs Agelastos. Her portrait appears in T. Catsiyannis, Pandias Stephen Rallis 1793-1865. Vierou K. Agelasto is listed as a contributor toward the building of the Church of Aghia Sophia, London, January 1881. 1881 England census: Hyde Park Square household headed by Augustus Agelasto, 58, East India merchant; wife Despina, 47; both b. Greece; widowed mother Virginia, 80, b. Turkey; daughters Despina, 11, b. London; Julia, 13, b. Manchester; Angelina Sordina, 22, b. Turkey; and son-in-law Andrea Sordina, 35, East India merchant, b. Greece; & 5 servants. Her siblings Marigo and Eustratios -- are on the Agelasto and the Negroponte-Agelasto tree, respectively. Philanthropy: Vieroù C. Agelasto donated £10 to the Chios Hospital in 1872 according to unpublished research by Demetrios Melachrinoudis.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 contributed in various years from 1871-1882. [7, 8]
  Person ID	I23	Agelasto
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	Stephanos (Zannis) Ralli,   b. 1755   d. 23 Jan 1827, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Loula (Augustus) Sechiari,   b. 2 Dec 1768, Chios, Greece d. 4 Oct 1848, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	This union is cited in a list of 13 marriage alliances that connected the Rallis with the founders of other Chiot firms in Calcutta. [9]
  Family ID	F245	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Cosi (Augustis) Agelasto,   b. 1791, Chios, Greece d. 13 Oct 1865, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey (Age 74 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. [9]
  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 - 30 Dec 1801 - Chios, Greece Marriage - 22 May 1819 - Chios, Greece Death - 17 Sep 1885 - 18 Hyde Park Square, London, England UK Burial - 22 Sep 1885 - Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Vierou Ralli
  		Mrs Cozi Agelasto
  		Vierou (Stephanos) Ralli Christina Agelasto collection
  		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).
  		18 Hyde Park Square, London, England photo 2009; Augustus C and Despina Agelasto resided at this Westminster address in 1871-1882 with their extended family.
  		Hyde Park Square, London, England photo 2009; numbers in the teens

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Vierou Agelasto 1885 probate
  		Mrs. Vierou Agelasto probate Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertise, 12 Nov 1885, p 3.
  		Will of Vierou Agelasto Document courtesy Neil Jones

  
  

  Headstones		Augustus Cosi Agelasto tomb - West Norwood Cemetery, London
  		Vierou Ralli, Augustus Cosi Agelasto tomb - West Norwood Cemetery, London

  
  

• Sources

  [S119] Philip P. Argenti, Argenti 1955, (London Oxford University Press). Included in Philip Argenti's Agelasto family tree, number 23. [S15] Georgios Georgiadis, The Holy Church of St John of the Chiots in Galata , (Constantinople, 1898 [in Greek]), 335. [S18] Timotheos (Bishop of Militoupolis) Catsiyannis, Pandias Stephen Rallis 1793-1865, (London, 1986). [S130] 1881 England Census. [S107] UK National Probate Calendar Indexes, 1858-1966, 1973-1995. [S86] Kyriakos Metaxas, editor, The Greek Gazette, (London, England), Aug 1977, 3. Records of Burials at West Norwood Cemetery [S88] Demetrios Melachrinoudis, Chiot Emigrants, (unpublished research 2009). [S87] Demetrios Melachrinoudis, Reports on Hygiene Institutions of Chios in the Second Half of the 19th Century Quoted from the Press of That Time, (Medical Society of Chios, Chios 2007). [S62] Paul Byron Norris, Ulysses in the Raj, (BACSA, 1992; ISBN 0907799469), 123.