Peter ‘Pietro’ Pandia (Pandia) Rodocanachi & Zenni ‘Jenny’ (Georges) Sechiari

Family Group Sheet

NamePeter ‘Pietro’ Pandia (Pandia) Rodocanachi, 3C5R

Birth22 Sep 1831, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy

Death18 Dec 1899, Worthing, Sussex, England

Burial22 Dec 1899, Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England

Residenceaft 1860, 125 Westbourne Terrace, Bayswater, London, England

MemoHe appears to have left this house to his son Pandia when he retired to Worthing.

ResidenceChios, Worthing, Sussex, England

MemoIs this correct? Catsiyannis says Emmanuel (Michael) Rodocanachi built the house.

ResidenceOffice, 65 London Wall, City of London, England

Residence1860, 12 Gloucester Square, Westminster, London, England

OccupationBanker. Founder in 1860 of P. P. Rodocanchi & Co. Ltd of 65 London Wall, London EC2.

Note 1(Vlachou) He was a member of the building committee formed in 1874 to oversee construction of St Sophia’s church in Bayswater and church warden in 1864. The family tomb at West Norwood Cemetery was listed by English Heritage in 1981.

Note 2Settled permanently in London and devoted his energies to Rodocanchi Brothers Merchants with his cousin Michael (Emmanuel) Rodocanachi. In 1860 he established P. P. Rodocanachi in London.

Note 3Awarded the Order of St Saviour by George l of Greece at the time of Queen Victoria’s funeral. See: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004

Note 4A director with Paraskeva G. Sechiari and Michael Zarifi of the Anglo-Foreign Banking Company, 2 Bishopgate Street, London, established in 1872.

Note 5A group photograph of Peter Rodocanachi & his wife Zenni Sechiari + their son Paul and daughters Aikaterini and Mary + their husbands and two children was taken by Churchill at Eastbourne in ca. 1893.

Flags***, Calvocoressi, Caradja, Giustiniani Pi, Grimaldi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Schilizzi

FatherPandia (Paul) Rodocanachi (1783-1846)

MotherMarigo (Theodore) Petrocochino (1798-1858)

Marriage17 Nov 1860, London, England

Married MemoMarriage not recorded at St Sophia, London, so may have occurred in France.

SpouseZenni ‘Jenny’ (Georges) Sechiari, 4C6R

Birth28 Jan 1842, Marseille, France

MemoAccording to her tombstone. Argenti says 2 Feb 1840. Her birth certificate says 1 Feb 1842.

Death12 Jun 1927, 14 Rue du Centre, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

Burial17 Jun 1927, Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England

ResidenceHôtel Rodocanachi, 14 Rue du Centre, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

Note 1A Mme P. Rodocanachi is recorded as the subject of a portrait by Bernardo Amiconi in 1863 (presumably this describes Zenni Sechiari?). Metaxa does not record their marriage at the Greek church in London... more likely their marriage was in France...

Marr. WitnessFanny Zizinia (presumably the wife of Stamati Zizinia).

Note 2A group photograph of Peter Rodocanachi & his wife Zenni Sechiari + their son Paul and daughters Aikaterini and Mary + their husbands and two children was taken by Churchill at Eastbourne in ca. 1893.

Flags***, Avierino, Calvocoressi, Caradja, Giustiniani Pi, Grimaldi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Ralli (Pitsis), Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Schilizzi, Sechiari, Sevastopoulos, Vouro

FatherGeorges (Paraskeva) Sechiari (1803-1884)

MotherMarigo ‘Marie’ (Pandely) Rodocanachi (1812-1868)

Children