Cosi (Augustis) Agelasto & Vierou ‘Virginia’ (Stephanos) Ralli

Family Group Sheet

NameCosi (Augustis) Agelasto

Birth1791, Chios, Greece/Hellenes

Death13 Oct 1865, Constantinople, Turkey

Burial1865, Saint Stephen’s, Constantinople, Turkey

OccupationFounder of Ralli & Agelasto, 1837, Tabreez, Persia.

Note 1(See Burke’s Peerage). He is the C. Agelasto who in May 1837 (with S.A. Ralli, P.A. Ralli and G.N. Eumorfopoulo) set up a branch of Ralli Brothers (London) and Ralli Schilizzi & Argenti (Marseilles) in Persia (Tabreez) under the name of Ralli & Agelasto.

Note 2In Tabreez, Persia, in January 1840, a branch of the Constantinople firm Toumasi Ralli & Co. was constituted under the style of Ralli & Agelasto, managed by G.N. Eumorfopoulo assisted by J. Sangrandi and A.A. Sepsi.

Note 3Michael Agelasto in 2008 though he may be the Agelasto who in May 1837 (with S. A. Ralli, P. A. Ralli and G. N. Eumorfopoulo) set up a branch of Ralli Brothers (London) and Ralli Schilizzi & Argenti (Marseilles) in Persia (Tabreez)...

Note 4... under the name of Ralli & Agelasto. However, other candidates are Ambrose Leoni Agelasto or Emmanuel John Agelasto...

Note 5... but in any case an Agelasto living in Liverpool/Manchester in the mid C19th was most likely involved in one of the Ralli companies, Ralli & Agelasto, doing business in Constantinople, Trebizond, Tabriz and Liverpool, 1837-71.

FlagsAgelasto, Chios, Constantinople, Giustiniani Pi, Greece, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Negroponte, Turkey

FatherAugustis (Zannis) Agelasto (?-?)

MotherAngeliki (Zannis) Negroponte (?-1822)

Marriage22 May 1819, Chios, Greece/Hellenes

Married Memo1819 according to Ralli family tree.

SpouseVierou ‘Virginia’ (Stephanos) Ralli, GG Granddaughter

Birth30 Dec 1801, Chios, Greece/Hellenes

Death17 Sep 1885, London, England

Burial22 Sep 1885, Hellenic Enclosure, West Norwood Cemetery, London, England

OriginChios.

Note 1(Chaviara-Axeskoufotos) Presumably the Mrs Agelasto of whom Mary Ann Chadwell writes in her 1868 diary: ‘On Saturday (04-04-1868) I saw Mrs Agelasto and her son Augustus. It is eighteen years since we had met’.

FlagsChios, Giustiniani Pi, Greece, London, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Ralli(Chaviara), Ralli(Pitsis), Scanavi, Scaramanga, Sechiari

FatherStephanos (Zannis) Ralli (1755-1827)

MotherLoula 'Julia' (Augustus) Sechiari (1768-1848)

Children

1 FAngeliki (Cosi) Agelasto, GGG Granddaughter

Birth10 Jun 1820, Chios, Greece/Hellenes

Death4 Jun 1828, Marseille, France

MemoArgenti says 5 Jun 1828.