Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameConstantine (Stamati) Choremi, Son
Birth1796
Death13 Apr 1878
OccupationCotton merchant. Dealt in sails for ships.
OriginChios.
Note 1Demogeront of Chios 1848, 1852 and 1864. From his 2nd marriage he had 16 children. Very pious. Yearned to die on Good Friday and did so.
Note 2Was he the Choremi who acquired the Vlasto estate in the centre of Chios, comprising of the house, chapel, orchards, gardens, etc – still largely in its original condition in 1999?
Note 3In 1822, on Chios, he and his first wife fled towards the monastery of St Minas. After her capture he hid in tombs with abandoned children for several days or weeks and was white-haired by the age of thirty.
Note 4He continued to live on Chios after the 1822 massacres and wore the “demogeront’s costume”. He had houses at Mesa Ki (the interior) and Kato Ki (on the coast).
FlagsChios, Choremi
FatherStamatios CHOREMI (~1760-)
Other spousesPerdika [Choremi] +
Marriage1824
SpousePouloudia Louloudis
Birth1808
Death27 Dec 1883
Note 1Very pious. She was illiterate although her own mother kept the accounts of her husband’s textiles shop. Penelope Delta blames this illiteracy on the Greek War of Independence...
Children
Birth1 Jun 1825
Death1894
Marriage?
ChildrenKaterina (Nikolaos) (1850-1857)
 Calliope (Nikolaos) (1854-1896)
 Elvetia (Nikolaos) (1856-1858)
 Stamatis (Nikolaos) (1857-1908)
 Katerina (Nikolaos) (1859-1944)
 Elvetia (Nikolis) (1862-1948)
BirthMar 1826
Death1900
Birth10 Oct 1827
Death1897
Marriage29 Nov 1860
ChildrenPenelope (Ioannes) (1861-1937)
 Constantine (Ioannes) (1862-1934)
 Stephanos (Ioannes) (1865-1869)
SpouseMarietta (---) Diamantidis (1844-1881)
Marriage?
ChildrenGeorgios (Ioannes) (1875-1876)
Birth1830
Death1832
Birth1832
Death1895
Birth1837
Death?
SpousePantoleon Avierino (1823-1905)
Marriage?
ChildrenArtemis (Pantoleon) (1855-1945)
 Andreas (Pantoleon) (1856-1900)
 Erato (Pantoleon) (1857-1892)
 Polyxeni (Pantoleon) (1859-1888)
 Aikaterini (Pantoleon) (1860-1860)
 Constantine ‘Costis’ (Pantoleon) (1862-1898)
 Stamatis (Pantoleon) (1868-?)
Birth1838
Death1907
Birth1840
Death1855
Birth1842
Death1842
Birth1844
Death1902
11 FCatina (Constantine) Choremi, Granddaughter
Birth?
Death?
Spouse--- Psaras (?-?)
Marriage?
ChildrenTheresa (---) (?-?)
 Maritsa (---) (?-?)
Birth8 Nov 1848, Chios, Greece/Hellenes
Death21 Aug 1928, Athens, Greece/Hellenes
SpouseEmmanuel (Antonios) Benachi (1843-1929)
Marriage1870, Saint Savvas, Alexandria
Married MemoProbably at Saint Savvas, Alexandria, married by the Patriarch Sophronios, according to daughter Penelope
ChildrenAlexandra (Emmanuel) (1871-1941)
 Antonis (Emmanuel) (1873-1954)
 Penelope (Emmanuel) (1874-1941)
 Constantine (Emmanuel) (1875-1877)
 Alexander (Emmanuel) (1878-1922)
 Argini (Emmanuel) (1883-1972)
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