Alexander (Alexander) Pallis JP & Ioulia ‘Julia-Eliza’ (Pandia) Ralli

Family Group Sheet

NameAlexander (Alexander) Pallis JP

Birth15 Mar 1851, Piraeus, Greece/Hellenes

Death17 Mar 1935, 20 Aigburth Drive, Liverpool, England

MemoArgenti and his obituarist say 18 Mar 1935 Liverpool.

Burial20 Mar 1935, Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Residence1895-1935, Tatoi, 20 Aigburth Drive, Liverpool, England

Residence1888, Bombay, India

Residence1890, 18 Brompton Avenue, Liverpool, England

OccupationPartner in Ralli Brothers, head of the Liverpool branch.

OriginIoannina. British citizenship 4 Sep 1897 when in Liverpool.

Note 1Fellow director of Ralli Bros (Liverpool) with Eustratius ‘Strati’ Ralli and Peter Paspati. Prominent Greek man of letters. Translated English and Greek texts (e.g. Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and ‘Henry lV’) into modern Demotic Greek.

Note 2His translation of the New Testament gospels into Demotic Greek provoked the ‘Gospel Riots’ in Athens in 1901. See his obituary in the ‘The Times’. His bust stands on the lake shore at Ioannina Greece.

Note 3His gross estate was £223,339/14s/1d all left to his wife and children. ‘A scholar of European fame’.

Note 4In a group photograph he appears seated, with hookah pipe, probably in Greece, beside an elegant unknown girl and behind them, perhaps, members of his mother’s Contsouri family, known to have been very poor.

FlagsPalis/Pallis

FatherAlexander (Anastasis) Pallis (?-1852)

MotherPanaghiotissa Contsouri (?-?)

Marriage31 Dec 1881, Liverpool, England

Married MemoArgenti says 31 Dec 1880.

SpouseIoulia ‘Julia-Eliza’ (Pandia) Ralli, GGG Granddaughter

Birth6 Aug 1857, London, England

Death3 Mar 1940, 20 Aigburth Drive, Liverpool, England

Burial6 Mar 1940, Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Baptism15 Sep 1857, Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England

Note 1(Pitsis) Julia appears in a photograph with Emma Aebischer on the water-front in Liverpool. Emma appears to have been a ‘companion’ to Julia’s husband and nanny to Andreas and Marco as well as assistant housekeeper and lady’s maid...

Note 2She apparently wrote to her daughter Marietta (paraphrased): 'Your father is being quite impossible, terrorising the whole household. Were it not that I want to die in my own home I would pack my bags and go' - and he was dead a year later.

God-parentsAikaterini Ralli.

Flags***, Argenti, Cantacuzene, Coressi, Cornelios, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Pi, Grimaldi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Ralli (Pitsis), Ralli (Spechlis), Rodocanachi, Vlasto

FatherPandia Theodore (Theodore) Ralli (1809-1860)

MotherAikaterini ‘Catina’ (Anastasios) Cornelios (1837-1930)

Children