Spyridon (Nicolas) Metaxa & Calliope (Alexander) Vlasto

Family Group Sheet

NameSpyridon (Nicolas) Metaxa

Birth10 Feb 1849, Cephalonia, Greece/Hellenes

Death19 Jul 1923, London, England

Residence1901, 57 Cleveland Square, Westminster, London W, England

Residence98 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London, England

OccupationMerchant.

Note 1Church records say he was aged 24 at his marriage.

Note 2Agelasto questions the identity of his father because Spyridon signs himself ‘Sp Metaxa Zanni’. The only Zanni Metaxa we know of lived in the C16th.

Note 3In the 1901 Census for 57 Cleveland Square there is: Spiro & Calliope and children George, Calliope, Emily and Alex +

FlagsMetaxa

FatherNicolas G. (Zorzis) Metaxa (1824-1907)

MotherEmilia Corgialegnio (?-?)

Marriage16 Jan 1886, Greek Orthodox Cathedral, St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England

SpouseCalliope (Alexander) Vlasto, 5C2R

Birth1 Jun 1862, Hyde Park Gardens, Westminster, London, England

Death22 Nov 1933, London, England

Baptism10 Jul 1862, Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England

Residence1881, Craven House (Chios House), Grove Road, Clapham Park, London, England

Residence1933, 98 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London, England

MemoAccording to probate record.

Note 1She is almost certainly the lady pictured left (beside Netta Zarifi, née Vlasto, and her baby daughter Helen) at Helen Vlasto’s summer house party at Saltmarsh Castle in 1911?

Marr. WitnessM. J. Ralli and George Metaxa.

God-parentsMarigo E. Ralli.

Note 2Her executors were Augustus Alexander Vlasto (merchant) and Sir Strati Ralli – the alternating chairmen and managing directors of Ralli Brothers.

Note 3She left estate of over £10,000 in 1933.

Flags***, Argenti, Avierino, Cantacuzene, Caradja, Coressi, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Pi, Grimaldi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Ralli (Pitsis), Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Scaramanga, Schilizzi, Sechiari, Sevastopoulos, Vlasto, Vouro

FatherAlexander Anthony (Antony) Vlasto (1833-1899)

MotherCalliope (Eustratios) Ralli (1836-1907)

Children

1 MGeorge (Spyridon) Metaxa, 6C1R

Birthabt 1889, India

SpouseIlse (Hermann) Baraballe (?-?)

Marriage10 Aug 1927, Greek Church of the Holy Trinity, Vienna, Austria

2 FCalliope ‘Poppy’ (Spyridon) Metaxa, 6C1R

Birth11 Nov 1890, Calcutta, India

Death15 Jul 1974, Lausanne, Switzerland

SpouseAlexander Agamemnon ‘Alex’ (Agamemnon) Pallis (1885-1963)

MarriageJan 1921, Paddington, London, England