Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameWaldemar Becker-Reuterskiöld
Birth1840, Finland
MemoAccording to Brisby.
Death1907, Naples, Italy
MemoAccording to Brisby.
BurialOld Cemetery, Helsinki, Finland
Note 1Identified by Claire Brisby in a letter to CAL on 11-06-2003. Second husband of Angelia Calvocoressi.
Note 2He and his wife’s tomb in Helsinki bears their effigies modelled by Angelia’s daughter Alexandra.
Note 3He was involved in the French Second Empire expedition to Mexico (1862-65).
Marriage17 Aug 1889
Married MemoAccording to Claire Brisby. Religious ceremony on 4 Sep 1889 at Chalkedon.
SpouseAngelia (Pandely) Calvocoressi, 7G Granddaughter
Birth12 Oct 1840, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium
MemoAnother source says 24 Oct 1840.
Death1929, Berlin, Germany
MemoLibro d’Oro says 1923. Perhaps 22 Mar 1929. Her ashes are at the Old Cemetery, Helsinki, Finland.
BurialOld Cemetery, Helsinki, Finland
Note 1Claire Brisby says Angelia owned a copy of ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’ inscribed from ‘Th. A. Vlasto, Tabriz. August 6th 1864’, and another book inscribed by the same hand ‘Tiflis 1866’.
Note 2She is the subject of an article by Claire Brisby ‘Angelia Calvocoressi 1840-1929: a Cosmopolitan Life’ published by the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora (30-02-2004, pp 97-129 which includes a genealogical table by CAL).
Note 3A portrait of her is apparently by her daughter who inscribed the picture: “Alexandra Comnene 1911”.
Flags***, Calvocoressi, Petrocochino, Scanavi
MotherSozonga (Paraskeva) Comnene (1808-1880)
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