Georges (Paraskeva) Sechiari

Notes:

Occupation: merchant.

Residence Marseille, France: 1843, allees de Meilhan 80; 1848, allees des Capucines 4; 1849, allees de Meilhan 4; 1856, allees des Capucines 22; 1873, allees des Capucines 20.

As witness he signed the birth certificates of Aspasia (Georges) Zizinia; Jenni Rodocanachi; Emmanuel (Paul) Rodocanachi.

The 1856 Marseille census says the household in allees des Capucines 22 included four domestic servants and: Georges Sechiari, 52, merchant; wife Marie Rodocanachi, 42; Paraskeva, 20; Pandelli, 15 [Pandely]; Henrietta and Arguri [Arghyro]. Henrietta Sechiari is unknown; Pandely's future wife is Arietta 'Henrietta' (Paul) Rodocanachi (1847 - 1894), his second cousin twice removed. Perhaps she was living with them at the time of the census.

George Sechiari, 43, merchant, allees de Meilhan 4, was a signatory witness at the 5 Sep 1846 Marseille marriage of Jean Demetrius Apalyra & Despinou Scaramanga, along with Michel Agelasto, Michel Petrocochino and Paul Rodocanachi; Signatory witness to the Marseille marriages of: Lucas Ralli & Eugenia Argenti, 1873; Constantine Negroponte and Angelique Zizinia, 1861; Michael Sevastopoulos & Smaragda Zizinia, 1854; Sechiari-Rodocanachi (his brother), 1849.

Zorzis Sechiari, 50, b. Chios, married, having arrived Syros 1834, merchant, swore allegiance to the Greek state at the Greek consulate, Marseille, on 25 Feb 1853.

Paraskevas Sechiari with his two sons, Thomas Paraskevas Sechiari and George Paraskevas Sechiari, managed the Galatz branch of the Argenti enterprise, at the time named Argenti & Cie.

His father may be Paraskeva (Augustis) Sechiari (1766-1841).

He appears on the Negroponte-Agelasto tree with daughter Zenni.

Georges married Marigo (Pandely) Rodocanachi in 1834. Marigo was born on 5 Feb 1812 in Chios, Greece; died on 20 Sep 1868 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; was buried in St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The daughter of her elder brother, Paraskeva George Sechiari, was Marigo Sechiari whose husband was the grandson of Marietta Agelasto.

A photo of mother and infant, circa 1860-186 by Eugene Disderi in the collection of the Musee d’Orsay, Paris, is likely Mrs. Demosthenes Agelasto née Arghyro Sechiari, and her son Michel.

Name:
Name appears as Argentine on her son George's death certificate.

Died:
Funeral at the Greek Church, Paris, 2 Jul 1916, 10:30 a.m.

Arghyro married Demosthenes (Michael) Agelasto on 08 Jan 1859 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Demosthenes (son of Michel (Pandia) Agelasto and Arghyro (Dimitrios) Petrocochino) was born on 05 Mar 1831 in rue Canonge 8, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France; died on 16 Dec 1912 in avenue Malakoff, Paris 16ème, Île-de-France, France; was buried on 21 Dec 1912 in St. Pierre Cemetery, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence, Paris: 1885 - 1886, 62 Boulevard de Clichy; 1897, 28 rue Jouffroy; 1912, avenue Malakoff 148, 16e (with his father).

One M. Agelasto was employed at 1 Place Centrale (1892-3) and at 9 rue de la Republic (1894), the latter being the same address as the office of his uncle, Demetrius Michel Agelasto (1884, the year before he died).

A photo of mother and infant, circa 1860 by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri in the collection of the Musee d’Orsay, Paris, is possibly Mrs. Demosthenes Agelasto née Arghyro Sechiari, and her son Michel.

On the Electoral Lists, Paris, France (1912)

Michel Agelasto, 28 rue Jouffroy, Paris, member of Société des études historiques, from 1894 (Revue de la Société des études historiques, Paris, 1897.

Attended sister’s wedding in 1885.

Birth:
Signatory witnesses on the birth certificate include Eustradio Petrocochino and Theophile Mettze, merchants.

Died:
Of fragile health, he fell and broke a leg. After an apparently successful operation, his injury did not heal correctly. During a subsequent operation, he died from a blood clot.

Buried:
Cemetery 1915 register midi carré 2, ter grec, no. 10.

Funeral at the Greek Church, Paris, 3 Mar 1915, 9:30 a.m.

Family/Spouse: Gertrude Betty Adelheid Milde. Gertrude was born on 20 Mar 1875 in Konigsberg/Kaliningrad, Russia; died on 24 Dec 1955 in Basel/Bale, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence: 1862, 45 Allées de Capucines, Marseille; 1885, 62 Boulevard de Glichy, Paris.

Birth:
Argenti incorrectly says 9 Oct 1866

Died:
Sugdury says 1923.

Buried:
Funeral at the Greek Church, 5 rue Georges-Bizet, Paris, 7 Apr 1919, 3:30 p.m.

Marie married Alexander (Georges) Grimanelli on 12 Oct 1885 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Alexander (son of Georges (John) Grimanelli and Hariklea (Alexander) Fenerlis) was born on 09 Oct 1856 in allées de Meilhan 9, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France; died after 1923. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Residence: Auteuil, France

Arghyro married Charles Alfred (Jean) Angot on 11 May 1886 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Charles (son of Jean Baptiste Augustin Angot and Camille Elisabeth Bacon) was born on 04 Jul 1848 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; died on 16 Mar 1924 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
He was born at the home of his mother's parents.

Died:
meningitis

Notes:

unknown to Argenti

The natural daughter of Michel Agelasto and Gertrude Mildé. After her father's death 1915, she and her mother were forced to leave France for Geneva due to her mother's German nationality. WW I had interrupted Michel's plans to marry Gertrude; after his death his friend Paul Rodocanachi arranged a sort of annuity, approved by French President Raymond Poincaré, a friend of Michel, who had authorized an exemption to permit their marriage. Michel Demosthene Agelasto's paternity is annotated on her birth certificate, 11 Aug 1914, and this was formally accepted by the mother, 26 Mar 1915, at the city hall, Monléon-Magnoac, Hautes-Pyrénées.

Her portrait was drawn by her art tutor, Henri Matisse, Quai Saint-Michel, Paris, late November or December 1914. Charcoal on paper 35 x 25.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in.), signed l.r.: Henri-Matisse. Plate 30 in Portraits par Henri Matisse (Henri Matisse, ed., André Sauret, pub., Paris, 1954). Printing limited to 2,850 copies, numbered 1 to 2,850, of which 500 were printed in English, numbered 1,501 to 2,000. Printing of the English edition was completed 1 Feb 1955.

Residence: 81 rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, Paris; 1915- Geneva; -1929, Paris; 1930, Australia; 1944- Freidorf, Switzerland.

Education: Sorbonne, Paris.

She exhibited at the Lyceum Club, Sydney, Australia, 4 Apr 1930 (The Sydney Mail, 19 Mar 1930, p. 30).

Gertrude Barbier of Basil exhibited a watercolor "The Window" at the 38th Exposition of the friends of the arts (L'Impartial [La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland], 7 Sep 1944, p. 6). She exhibited a 'portrait rapidly removed' at the 39th Exposition of the friends of the arts (L'Impartial [La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland], 19 Sep 1946, p. 6).

Artist. Name is on artprice.com website, Dec 2009.

Birth:
She was born in the domicile of the mid-wife.

Gertrude-Micheline married Charles Henri (Francis) Barbier on 20 Mar 1929 in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia. Charles (son of Francis Barbier and Milka Frank) was born on 29 Aug 1902 in Chaux de Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; died on 16 May 1984 in Basel/Bâle, Switzerland; was buried on 21 May 1984 in Basel/Bâle, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Author, Maggy et Son Bungalow (Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1931) - novel in French about her life as married woman in India.

Birth:
Signatory witnesses to her birth included her grandfather Demosthenes Agelasto, 60, rentier, cours du Chapitre 9, Marseille, France.

Alexandra married Jean Anastasios (Anastasios) Skyrianos on 07 Oct 1922 in Paris 16ème, Île-de-France, France. Jean was born about 1884 in Sinop, Turkey; died on 05 Jan 1965 in Athens, Attica, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Signatory witnesses to his birth included his grandfather Demosthenes Agelasto, 63, rentier, Boulevard Clichy 62, Paris.

Notes:

She had children, according to Christopher Long.

Birth:
Signatory witnesses to her birth included her grandfather Demosthenes Agelasto, 60, rentier, Place des Batiguolles 3, Paris.

Hélène married Pierre Maurice (Georges) Croizard on 14 May 1914 in Paris 7ème, Île-de-France, France. Pierre was born on 25 Nov 1886 in Fontainebleau, Île-de-France, Seine-et-Marne, France; died in 1969. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She had children, according to Christopher Long.

Birth:
Signatory witnesses to her birth included her grandfather Demosthenes Agelasto, 60, rentier, Place des Batiguolles 3, Paris.

Died:
Information annotated on her Marseille birth register entry.

Suzanne married Adolphe Charles (Victor) Grandpierre on 06 Jul 1918 in Paris 7ème, Île-de-France, France. Adolphe (son of Victor Marius (François) Grandpierre and Clémence Henriette (Alphonse) Provins) was born on 7 Jan 1888 in [France]; died in 1938 in [France]. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Signatory witnesses to his birth included his grandfather Demosthenes Agelasto, 62, rentier, Place des Batiguolles 3, Paris.

Notes:

He had children according to Christopher Long.

Worked in sugar plantations in the Comores and at Anjouan until the end of the colonisation (Christopher Long).

Residence: Madagascar, according to Gertrude Agelasto Barbier.

Birth:
Birth registered 30 Jul 1899, decade register, 1893-1902.

Alfred married Marthe Bracquemont in 1920, and was divorced in 1924. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfred married Geneviève Barret in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]