Stephanos Cosis (Cosi) Agelasto^{[1, 2, 3]}

1832 - 1896  (63 years)

• Name	Stephanos Cosis (Cosi) Agelasto
  Birth	14 Mar 1832	Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Jan 1896	St Dionysios parish, Athens, Greece
  Burial	First Cemetery of Athens, Greece
  Notes	Residence: Constantinople bef 1857; 1857 Syros; 1860, 1861, 1863, 1871, 1 Belmont Terrace, Salford, Manchester, England. 1866, 54 Boulevard Longchamp, Marseille, a businessman, at the time of his daughter Julia’s birth. 1876: Kersal Mount, 4 Vine St, Broughton [listed as both Higher and Lower]. [4] Occupation: Mediterranean shipping merchant. 1862, 1863, S.C. Agelasto; 1867, 36 Cooper Street, Manchester; 1 Jan 1870, S.C. Agelasto operated with Stephen C Agelasto in Manchester, John A. Ralli in London and George Rizo & H Stazati Psycha in Calcutta; 1876, merchant with A. Agelasto & Co.; 1877-78, with Agelasto & Co., merchants, 63 George St., Manchester (company listing 1883, 1886, 1895). After Stephen Cosi's death the 1903 city directory lists Agelasto & Co, 63 George St., Manchester, "East Indies, all kinds of cotton goods." Also in Manchester the same year, there was a similar business with a slightly different name: A Agelasto & Co, run by John Emmanuel Agelasto, Aubonne House, 491 Bury New Road. Agelasto & Co. was still in business in 1909-1911, at 78 George St., Manchester, its directory listing including "East Indies, grey & white cotton goods." Naturalization: Stephen Cosi Agelasto took British citizenship on 27 Oct 1864. He said on his Oct 1864 application for naturalization: "in business in the City of Manchester as a merchant and shipper of Manchester and other manufactured goods to India and other foreign markets." Gives his birth year as 1833 "born of Greek parents and registered as a Greek subject at the Island of Syra in the Archipelago and am now of the age of thirty one years or thereabouts." He affirms he has continually resided in Manchester for the past 4 years, ie, 1860-1864. [5] In the last quarter of 1860, when several Greek firms in the Levant cotton trade failed, his company's "liabilities are computed at about £60,000, but the liquidation, it is thought, will not be very unfavourable" (Daily News [London] 27 Nov 1860; The Observer, 2 Dec 1860, p 5)." The bankruptcy resulted in the payout to creditors of 14s in the pound (Daily News [London] 8 Dec 1860). He also filed for bankruptcy on 14 Aug 1862 in co-partnership with Alexander Matza [Matsas, his father in law) and Ralli Antoniadi (a Constantinople firm of Matza & Antoniadi) - bankruptcy discharged 5 Nov 1862 (London Gazette 19 Aug 1862, copied in North Wales Chronicle 23 Aug 1862; The Times (London) 20 Aug 1862). Had another firm S. C. Agelasto (1862). [6] His mother 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 attended secondary school in Marseille, 1849 and had earlier lived in Constantinople. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Agelasto (attired as gentilhomme Polonais & chatelaine du moyen age, respectively), along with Mr. Agelasto (British naval officer) and Miss Agelasto (Smyrna lady), attended a grand fancy dress ball at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall given by S. Georgala, Esq., of the firm of H. Georgala & Co., Greek general merchants (Liverpool Mercury, 30 Dec 1871). 10 Apr 1857: Stephanos K [Constantine], 25, unmarried, born Constantinople, merchant, swore allegiance to the government at town hall, Ermoupolis. Kersal Mount, Vine Street, Higher Broughton, Manchester, was advertised to be let, "immediate possession...late occupied by T. Agelasto, Esq: contains three entertaining rooms, six bedrooms, servants' rooms, with all needful offices" (Manchester Guardian, 23 Feb 1878). Stephanos Agelastos gave two chandeliers on each side of the church to the Greek Church of Manchester, 1861. [7] St. Agelastos is listed as a warden for the Greek Church of Manchester, 1869-1870, 1874-1875 & 1875-1876. [8] UK Naturalisation: Stephen Agelasto, Greece, 27 Oct 1864; certificate 4543 [9] Philanthropy: Stephen Agelasto is listed in 1872 among the donors to the Chios Hospital according to unpublished research by Demetrios Melachrinoudis. In 1867 Stephen Agelasto & Son donated 250 Francs to Chios Schools; and Stephen Agelasto gave 500 Francs to the Chios Hospital. [10] Etienne Agelasto, 34, merchant, boulevard Longchamp 54, was a signatory witness to the 1867 Marseille birth of Eustratio Prassacachi.
  Person ID	I43	Agelasto
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2015

  
  

  Father	Cosi (Augustis) Agelasto,   b. 1791, Chios, Greece d. 13 Oct 1865, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey (Age 74 years)
  Mother	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. [11]
  Family ID	F36	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Athena (Alexandros) Matsas,   b. 30 Jan 1840, Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey d. 10 May 1898, rue de la Sante 29, Paris 13ème, Île-de-France, France (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	18 Mar 1858	Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
  Children	+ 1. Virginia (Stephanos) Agelasto,   b. 01 Feb 1859, Manchester, Lancashire, England UK d. 1932 (Age 72 years) + 2. Cozis (Stephanos) Agelasto,   b. 01 May 1860, Manchester, Lancashire, England UK d. 18 May 1937, [Greece] (Age 77 years) + 3. Maria (Stephanos) Agelasto,   b. 23 May 1861, Manchester, Lancashire, England UK d. 09 Jun 1929, Athens, Attica, Greece (Age 68 years) + 4. Despina (Stephanos) Agelasto,   b. 09 Nov 1862, Manchester, Lancashire, England UK d. 11 Feb 1941, rue Sylvabelle 73, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France (Age 78 years)   5. Alexandros (Stephanos) Agelasto,   b. 27 May 1864, Manchester, Lancashire, England UK d. 25 Jan 1923, Athens, Attica, Greece (Age 58 years) + 6. Julia (Stephanos) Agelasto,   b. 08 Dec 1866, boulevard Longchamp 54, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France d. 28 Jun 1945, Athens, Attica, Greece (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F45	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Dec 2007

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 14 Mar 1832 - Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey Marriage - 18 Mar 1858 - Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey Death - 25 Jan 1896 - St Dionysios parish, Athens, Greece Burial - - First Cemetery of Athens, Greece  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Stephenos (Cosi) Agelasto
  		boulevard Longchamp 54, Marseille, France After they moved from Manchester around 1866, Athena and Steven C. Agelasto lived here, presumably with all their children. Then at least from 1870-1891, the residence housed his 4th cousin, Despina Agelasto, and her husband Etienne Schilizzi, along with his parents, who both lived out their lives here; photo 2009.
  		Cooper St. (even numbers), Manchester, England. photo 2015; Ambrosios Agelasto is listed for 38 Cooper St (1853); Stephen Cosi Agelasto, no. 36 (1867); S.J. Negroponte, no. 32 (1863).

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		SC Agelasto 1862 bankruptcy London Gazette 19 Aug 1862
  		Stephen Cosi Agelasto signature on UK naturalization application 1864
  		Stephen Cosi Agelasto bankruptcy discharge London Gazette 7 Nov 1862
  		Ralli Enterprises chart, Chapman p 156.
  		Chapman on Ralli enterprises, p 155
  		Etienne Agelasto Lycee Marseille 1849 He was second prize in maths in the Lycee Marseille, 1849.
  		S.C. Agelasto's 1960 bankruptcy payout to creditors Daily News (London), 8 Dec 1960.
  		Stephen C. Agelasto Bankruptcy Statement of Accounts Manchester Guardian, 7 Dec 1860 p 2
  		Stephen C Agelasto Death Certificate 25 Jan 1896, Athens, Greece
  		Stephen Agelasto Manchester listing The Manchester Commercial List 1873-1874, Estell & Co., London, 1873, p. 1.
  		Agelasto & Co., 63 George Street, Manchester, England list of partners, 1878-1899

  
  

  Headstones		Stephanos Cosis Agelasto family burial plot, Athens Athens First Cemetery, Athens, Greece
  		Stephanos Cosis Agelasto family tomb, Athens Athens First Cemetery, Athens, Greece

  
  

• Sources

  [S119] Philip P. Argenti, Argenti 1955, (London Oxford University Press). Included in Philip Argenti's Agelasto family tree, number 43. [S7] Stanley Chapman, Stanley Chapman, Merchant Enterprise in Britain: From the Industrial Revolution to World War I , (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 155-6. [S39] Greek State Archives (Syros). #8620 Registry of Oaths of Allegiance [S39] Greek State Archives (Syros). Registry of Oaths of Alliegance [S94] UK National Archives. HO 1/118/4543 [S86] Kyriakos Metaxas, editor, The Greek Gazette, (London, England), Dec 1977, 28. Records of Bankruptcy 1851-1900 [S70] Sophocles Chr. Andreades, A Personal History of the Greek Community of Manchester and Its Church, 1843-1900., (Manchester, 2000, ISBN 0-9504097-2-3), 48. [S70] Sophocles Chr. Andreades, A Personal History of the Greek Community of Manchester and Its Church, 1843-1900., (Manchester, 2000, ISBN 0-9504097-2-3), 52. [S86] Kyriakos Metaxas, editor, The Greek Gazette, (London, England), Dec 1976, 23. Greeks Naturalised in Britain 1801-1900 [S88] Demetrios Melachrinoudis, Chiot Emigrants, (unpublished research 2009). [S62] Paul Byron Norris, Ulysses in the Raj, (BACSA, 1992; ISBN 0907799469), 123.