Constantine Alexander (Alexander) Ionides & Agathonike (Constantine) Fenerlis

Family Group Sheet

NameConstantine Alexander (Alexander) Ionides, GG Grandson

Birth14 May 1833, Manchester, England

MemoSturdza says London.

Death29 Jun 1900, Hove, Sussex, England

Burial2 Jul 1900, Hove Cemetery, Brighton, Sussex, England

Residence1 Holland Park, Kensington, London, England

MemoResidence.

Residence20 Holland Villas Road, Kensington, London, England

MemoMay or may not have lived there.

Residenceabt 1864, 8 Holland Villas Road, Kensington, London, England

MemoMay or may not have lived there.

ResidenceOakwood, Crayford, Kent, England

MemoA residence.

Residence1881, 23 Second Avenue, Hove, Sussex, England

MemoA residence.

Residence1866, (Office) Ionides & Barker, 37 Threadneedle Street, City of London, England

Residence1877, (Office) Ionides & Co, 2 Copthall Buildings, City of London, England

OccupationMerchant and stockbroker.

OriginConstantinople.

Note 1Art collector & patron of artists such as Legros, Watts and Meadows. Left an estate worth £155,657.00 in 1900. Lived with his family in Constantinople till 1864, then returned to London and bought 8 Holland Villas Road, owned for more than 30 years.

Note 2In the Ionides Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, are 6 portraits of members of the Ionides Family and a small picture of the whole Ionides family together, all by Watts. A member of the Building Committee for St Sophia, London.

Note 3On his retirement he bought a 40-acre estate called Oakwood at Crayford, Kent, which he sold before 1881 when he moved to 23 Second Avenue, Hove. His portrait was painted by G. F. Watts R.A. in 1880 (Ionides Collection, V&A, London).

Note 4In 1870 Constantine Ionides commissioned the architect and designer Philip Webb (1831-1915) to design an extension for 8 Holland Villas, London, and Webb later worked for more than a decade at the Ionides's main house at 1 Holland Park.

Flags***, Avierino, Calvocoressi, Ionides, Petrocochino, Scanavi, Sevastopoulos

FatherAlexander Constantine (Constantine) Ionides (1810-1890)

MotherEuterpe (Lucas) Sgouta (1816-1892)

Marriage28 Oct 1860, Phanar, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Married MemoSturdza says 26 Oct 1860 and that they were cousins.

SpouseAgathonike (Constantine) Fenerlis

Birth1841, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

MemoIonides/Butterworth tree says 1845. Julia Ionides says 1844.

Death30 Dec 1920, 23 Second Avenue, Brighton, Sussex, England

MemoArgenti says 17 Dec 1920. See The Times 31 Dec 1920.

Burial1 Jan 1921, Hove Cemetery, Brighton, Sussex, England

Residence1920, 23 Second Avenue, Hove, Sussex, England

Note 1Or Fenerli. Her portrait was painted by G. F. Watts R.A. in 1880 (Ionides Collection, V&A, London) and Rossetti. She left an estate worth £22,706.00 to her daughter Helen.

Note 2Sturdza claims she ‘married her cousin, thus their children were linked to the Zarifi, Cavafy and Spartali’. She met her husband when he spent five years in Bucharest working in the grain trade.

FatherConstantine (---) Fenerlis (1787-1863)

Mother---- [Fenerlis] (?-?)

Children

1 FEuterpe (Constantine) Ionides, GGG Granddaughter

Birth19 Jul 1861, Phanar, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Death23 Oct 1955, London, England

SpouseWilliam Feilden (William) Craies (1854-1911)

Marriage5 Aug 1880, Greek Orthodox Cathedral, St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England

ChildrenAgathoniki Sabina ‘Sissie’ (William) (1885-1947)

Constantine (William) (1882-?)

Zoë Victoria (William) (1897-1967)