Virginia (Pandia) Sechiari^[1]

1849 - 1929  (79 years)

• Name	Virginia (Pandia) Sechiari
  Birth	05 Sep 1849	Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey
  Gender	Female
  Death	20 Jul 1929	Kifisia, Athens, Attica, Greece
  	Janson, Cobb, Pearson & Co, 22 College Hill, EC4, London were the solicitors for the excecutors of her estate (London Gazette 10 Sep 1929). Death notice appeared in The Times (London) 6 Aug 1929, pg. 1. Her estate was valued at £674,572 net with duties of £195,000. Her executors included her son and George Michel Mavrogordato; she left £10,000 unconditionally to Thomas Ashby, her son's secretary; £1,000 to King Edward's Hospital Fund, £500 to the Grosvenor Hospital for Women and Children; £500 to her maid and a £100 life annuity to her late butler (The Times [London] n.d.). [2]
  Burial	08 Aug 1929	Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK   [4]
  	"An early twentieth-century (1908) listed monument belongs to John S. Schilizzi (1840-1908) and his wife Virginia (1849-1927), née Sechiaris and mother of Helena Venizelos. The monument (TQ 3272 32/1122), situated near the west corner of the burial ground, consists of a sarcophagus with a female statue. A pink granite base supports the veined marble sarcophagus, both of which bear the names of the deceased. The sarcophagus is topped with a white marble female figure, half nude with flowing robes and veiled, abandoning herself to grief. To the rear, pink granite steps lead down to the vault." Funeral at St. Sophia Cathedral, 2 p.m. burial plot no. 32308, sq. 42-43, no. 250-251 on Greek plan, reg. pg. 17078, no. 65787 [3]
  Notes	Residence: 1872, 93 Westbourne Terrace, Bayswater, London, England; 1929, Hotel de Mercédès, Rue de Presbourg, Paris, France; bef 1929, West Hill, Highgate and 37 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, London, England; 1929, Kiphissia [Kifisia], Athens, Greece. She is recorded as donating an oil painting to St Sophia in Bayswater, London: "Suffer the little children to come unto me" 1881 England census: 93 Westbourne Terrace, London, household headed by John S. Schilizzi, 40, retired merchant; wife Virginia, 31, both b. Constantinople; son Stephen J., 8; daughter Helen, 9, both b. London; George Sechiari, brother-in-law, 19, foreign grain merchant, b. Constantinople; & 4 servants. She likely has a sister, Arghyro, on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree. Virginia John Schilizzi [31 Cromwell Road & 37 Upper Brook Street] appears on the 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915 England electoral register, St George, Hanover Square parliamentary division, Westminster county/borough.
  Person ID	I2587	Negroponte-Agelasto
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2021

  
  

  Family	John S. (Zannis) Schilizzi Stephanovich,   b. 31 Aug 1840, Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey d. 13 Oct 1908, 31 Cromwell Road, London, England UK (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	18 Apr 1871	Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey
  	Marriage Witnesses: Paul (Ioannis) Schilizzi.
  Children	+ 1. Stephen Stephanovich (John) Schilizzi, JP,   b. 15 Apr 1872, 93 Westbourne Terrace, Bayswater, London, England UK d. 18 Jul 1961, 20 Devonshire Place St., Marylebone, London, England UK (Age 89 years)   2. Helena (John) Schilizzi Stephanovich,   b. 18 Sep 1873, 93 Westbourne Terrace, Bayswater, London, England UK d. 07 Sep 1959, avenue George V 29, Paris 8ème, Île-de-France, France (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F1099	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2010

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 05 Sep 1849 - Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey Marriage - 18 Apr 1871 - Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey Death - 20 Jul 1929 - Kifisia, Athens, Attica, Greece Burial - 08 Aug 1929 - Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England UK  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Virginia Sechiari
  		93 Westbourne Terrace, London, England In 1881 John S. and Virginia Schilizzi lived at 93 Westbourne Terrace, Bayswater, with their children; photo 2009.
  		31 Cromwell Road, London, England photo 2009. Lycee francais Charles de Gaulle, across from the National History Museum. John Schilizzi Stephanovich lived at this South Kensington address in 1908, presumably with his wife.
  		37 Upper Brook Street, London, England photo 2009; this Mayfair address for Virginia Schilizzi is one of several at the time of her death.
  		37 Upper Brook Street, London, England detail

  
  

  Documents		West Norwood Cemetery Register for burial plot no. 32308, sq. 42-43, no. 250-251 on Greek plan
  		Virginia Schilizzi 1929 Probate

  
  

  Headstones

  West Norwood Cemetery John S Schilizzi (1840-1908); Virginia Schilizzi (1849-1929); photo by Parker Agelasto

  
  

• Sources

  [S126] 1881 England Census. [S82] UK National Probate Calendar Indexes, 1858-1966, 1973-1995. [S78] West Norwood Cemetery registers, London, England. [S7] Theodoropoulou-Polychroniadis, Zetta, Hellenic enclosure of the South Metropolitan (West Norwood) Cemetery, (Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens, 2002), 2002, 18.