Peter (Alexander) Agelasto & Catherine Elizabeth (Silas) Thorpe

Family Group Sheet

NamePeter (Alexander) Agelasto, GGGG Grandson

Birth14 Feb 1867, Bombay, India

Death11 Jun 1939, Warren, North Carolina, USA

Burial1939, Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Residence1888-91, 18 York Street, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Residence1910, 54 York Street, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Residence1920-30, Sixpound, Warren, North Carolina, USA

OccupationLawyer. W. A. Fentress, Norfolk, Virginia (1888-1891). Partner of Agelasto & Miller (attorneys, Norfolk, Virginia (1919).

Note 1He may be the child who appears alone in a photograph taken in New Orleans in 1870 (George Scrini collection). Vice-consul for Greece 1888-1891 (Norfolk Directory).

Note 2Acquitted on 24 Jan 1908, with his brother Alexander, of an $83,000 larceny from Citizen’s Bank, Norfolk, based on alleged false warehouse receipts.

Note 3Filed for US naturalisation 20 Mar 1888. On his US passport application aged 21 he is described as “5’ 5”, high forehead, brown eyes, Roman nose, medium-sized mouth, medium round chin, dark complexion, full face, brown moustache...”

Note 4He and his parents travelled from Liverpool to New York aboard the ‘China’ on 7 Oct 1869.

Flags***, Agelasto, Argenti, Avierino, Cantacuzene, Coressi, Galati, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Rodocanachi, Scaramanga, Vlasto

FatherAlexander (Michael) Agelasto (1835-1906)

MotherPolyxene (Alexander) Mavrogordato (1846-1934)

Marriage18 Jun 1904, Williamsburg, Virgina, USA