Genealogy Index

These genealogies have been assembled by amateur family historians and represent work and research over many years. Inevitably they remain incomplete. They contain all the publishable information currently available but are bound to contain errors. Their accuracy should not always be relied upon. Needless to say, any corrections to information concerning living or deceased individuals will be most welcome.

Any living person wishing their identity to be excluded from these genealogy reports should let us know here and such information will, as always in the past, be removed as soon as practicably possible.

The purpose of this work is not merely to gather names and dates. It principally provides a background resource for the numerous histories, articles and image galleries featured elsewhere on this site. Hopefully it will also interest many of my 'cousins' searching for their roots.

In compiling these genealogies I've had much help from official records and published sources, though predominantly I've relied on original family records and enthusiastic help from hundreds of members of the families concerned, as well as amateur and professional historians, for all of which I'm most grateful.

For the genealogies of families of Greek/Hellenic origin I owe a great debt to Philip Argenti's Libro d'Oro de la Noblesse de Chio; to Kyriakos Metaxas who published in the London Greek Gazette a remarkable compendium of the records of the Greek community and churches in London, Liverpool and Manchester; and the historical works of Prince Mihai Dimitri Sturdza. However, I am especially grateful to our friend George Vassiadis, for all his advice and help over almost two decades, as well to my distant cousins Patrick Streeter and Michael Agelasto who have for years generously provided information on our shared 'family'. But my greatest thanks go to my wife Sarah. Few wives have to encounter and study almost 25,000 of their in-laws. Without her enthusiasm and effort this project would not have been possible.

• Names in curved (brackets) are patronymic - i.e. they identify the individual's father. This convention helps to distinguish the many individuals who bear similar or identical names. In fact the 'patronymic' name convention was anyway customary among most of the Hellenic families concerned in these genealogies.
• Names in square [brackets] indicate that the person's own family name at birth is not known and the name of the spouse or mother is being used instead for identification.
• Three dashes '---' indicate that a male's first name is unknown; four dashes '----' indicate that a female's first name is unknown.
• A name followed by the mark º indicates that the person was, or is, known to me, Christopher Long.
• Names followed by a question mark '?' indicate that further research is needed. Two question marks '??' mean that the individual's identity may be unreliable.
• A person's ‘Origin‘ is usually derived from those claimed in official records and may not be literally true: e.g. many Chios diaspora families describe themselves as 'of Chios' even when born elsewhere.
• In the CAL Relations genealogy, references such as ‘Uncle‘, ‘GGG‘, ‘3C2R‘, etc., indicate an individual's relationship to the author, Christopher Long. In other genealogies they reference the relationship to the earliest source person in that genealogy, whose name appears in capital letters.
• Dates may be based on either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, resulting sometimes in anomalies of 13 days.
• Names in single ‘inverted commas‘ are those by which a person was usually known.
• Very occasionally a name is followed by ‘!‘. This indicates that although the individual is known to be a descendant of a family or branch, the precise person to whom they are connected cannot be proved. Such informed guesses are only ever made on compelling circumstantial evidence.
• Where a unique identification code/number appears beside a name, this may change in future editions of this genealogy. NB researchers and authors: avoid citing the precise web page address because this will change!
• The identities of a number of individuals have been 'excluded' from these records either at their own request or because they simply do not merit inclusion. They know who they are and why they've been excluded.
• NB In the Greek/Hellenic genealogies the spelling of certain names presents problems or anomalies. Many Hellenic families (e.g. those from Chios, the Phanar, Epirus, the Balkans, Bessarabia, the Aegean, the Black Sea, the Levant, and the Magreb) appear here in translation from various languages and alphabets. Where a name is originally Greek, even the Greek archaic and demotic forms do not agree on how it was or should be spelled! Wherever possible I provide the name by which the individual was/is commonly known, though in most cases we have only official records for reference and these come from numerous countries attempting to render Greek words into their own languages and alphabets across more than 500 years. Furthermore, most cosmopolitan Hellenic families were inveterate travellers, almost invariably adapting their names to the form used in the host country. Thus Zannis from Chios could be Ioannis in Constantinople, Jean in Marseilles, John in London, Gianni in Italy, Johann in Vienna and Ivan in Russia. To make matters more complicated, almost all these individuals were known by family nick-names or diminutives: e.g. Kostia for Constantine, Strati for Eustratios and Manoli for Emmanuel. To simplify matters I have standardised spelling to an approximation of what the name sounded like in the place and period concerned – except where the 'owner' appears to have had a clear preference. A complicating factor is the enthusiasm among French historians for systematically and irrationally converting foreign names into their French equivalent! In other words the following are all variants of the same thing: Maria, Marie, Marietta, Marigo, Marika, Mariora, Marouko, Marouletta, Maroussa, Maroussaki, Mary, etc... as would be Vlasto, Vlastos, Vlastou, etc...

Genealogies of families originating in the Hellenes, Aegean and Chios compiled by Christopher Long (a descendant or kinsman of most of them!).

• The Agelasto Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Argenti Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Baltazzi Family of Smyrna – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Benachi Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Callimachi Family of The Phanar – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Calvocoressi Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Caradja Family of The Phanar – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Caralli Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Caratheodori Family of Adrianople – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Casanova Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Choremi Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Chryssoveloni Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Coressi Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Cozzika Family of Karystos – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Demetriadi Family of Smyrna – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Eumorfopoulos Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Galati Family – of Chios A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Ionides Family of Caisareia – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Mavrogordato Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Maximo Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Melas Family of Ioannina – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Metaxa Family of Cephalonia – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Mourouzis Family of The Phanar – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Negroponte Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Paspati Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Petrocochino Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Prassacachi Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• Rallis of Scio published privately May 1896 – A Genealogy Updated 06-02-2012
• The Ralli Family (Athenian Branch) of Athens – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Ralli Family (Chaviara Axeskoufotos, Chatta & Pitta Branches) of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Ralli Family (Pitsis Branch) of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Ralli Family (Spechlis Branch) of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Rodocanachi Family of Chios (Sepsis & Sakoleva) of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Scaramanga Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Schilizzi Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Vagliano Family of Cephalonia – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Vlasto Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Vlasto Family (1st) of Crete – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Vlasto Family (2nd) of Crete – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Vouro Family of Chios – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025
• The Zarifi Family of Constantinople – A Genealogy Updated 11-08-2025

Chiot & Phanariot Diaspora Family Galleries & Further Information

• Michel E.T.D. Vlasto Background Friends & Family – 1888-1918
• Vlasto Family Holiday Saltmarsh Castle 1911 – Vlasto, Zarifi, Rodocanachi, etc
• Vlasto Family Holiday Sheringham 1913 – Vlasto, Zarifi, Rodocanachi, etc
• The Ionides Collection in Hove, Sussex, England in ca 1916 – From Ionides/Demetriadi Family Album
• MIchel E.T.D. Vlasto FRCS Cuttings Book – 1919-1972
• The Vlasto & Pallis Families – of Greece and Liverpool – Updated 27-09-2012
• West Norwood Cemetery London: The Hellenic Enclosure, West Norwood – Photographed in 2005 by George Vassiadis & Christopher Long
• 'Greek Migrations: Phanariots & Chiots' – Talk by C. A. Long to the London Hellenic Society, 2005
• Notes on the History of St Stephen's Chapel at The Hellenic Enclosure West Norwood, London – Compiled by Nicholas Long, MBE – (2025)
• Chiot & Phanariot Burials at The Hellenic Enclosure West Norwood, London – Compiled by CAL – (2025)
• Hellenic Enclosure Explanatory Panel designed by Christopher Long for the Talk: Who Are Your People? – The Hellenic Enclosure, West Norwood Cemetery – (2025)

CAL Talks

• 'Greek Migrations: The Chiot & Phanariot Disapora – Talk at London Hellenic Centre – (2005)
• 'Who Are Your People?' – A Talk for Chiot & Phanariot Diaspora Descendants at West Norwood Cemetery's Hellenic Enclosure, London – (2025)

Genealogies of the Croil, Desormeaux, Long, Mitchell, Poole and Richardson families, compiled by Christopher Long (a descendant or kinsman of all of them!).

• The Croil Family of Scotland, Canada and the USA, probably of Norman origin – A Genealogy Updated 12-09-2024
• The Denn Family of Norfolk? – A Genealogy Updated 07-12-2023
• The Desormeaux / Gilson Family originally of Normandy – A Genealogy Updated 07-12-2023
• The Gilson Family originally of Normandy – A Genealogy Updated 07-12-2023
• The Long Family originally of Norfolk, England – A Genealogy Removed 21-08-2011 at the insistance of a Mrs D. Lott
• The Meek Family of Scotland – A Genealogy Updated 07-12-2023
• The Mence Family of London? – A Genealogy Updated 07-12-2023
• The Mitchell Family originally of Scotland – A Genealogy Updated 07-12-2023
• The Poole Family originally of England – A Genealogy Updated 07-12-2023
• The Richardson Family originally of Scotland – A Genealogy Updated 07-12-2023

CAL Relations

• Relations of Christopher Long – A Genealogy Updated 10-08-2025

Further reliable information, corrections or updates are always warmly welcome here.