Kyr Zarifis (Zaraf) Zarifi & Sultana ‘Sultanitsa’ [Zarifi]

Family Group Sheet

NameKyr Zarifis (Zaraf) Zarifi, GGGG Grandfather

Birth1750, Vori, Island of Pasalimani, Sea of Marmara

MemoAnother source says ca 1740.

Death?

Residence1786, Mega Revma/Arnavutköy, Bosphorus, Turkey

MemoTimber-built summer residence.

ResidenceThe Phanar, Constantinople, Turkey

MemoStone-built winter residence.

OccupationTraded in wine in Constantinople

OriginVori, Island of Pasalimani, Sea of Marmara

Note 1He and his forbears were 'kapeloi' (wine merchants) with which they supplied Constantinople from their own vineyards using their own small fleet of of caiques, some of which had 10 pairs of oars. Relations in Constantinople were the distributors.

Note 2Sonia Simeonoglou (née Zarifi) notes that ‘Zaraf’ meant gentle/elegant and Zarifi was the Greek form of this name, dating from a time when the Turks allowed no surnames.

Note 3“The first Zarifi, who appears at the end of the 18th century, claimed his descent from Vori. His name “Celebi Kyr-Zarifi” first occurs as a resident not of Vori but of Istanbul, where he might have been born - GZ”

Note 4GZ believed George was baptised ‘Zarifi’ (fine/refined/gentleman) as a first name at a time when Muslim Turks deprecated surnames. Zarifi later became his surname.

FlagsZarifi

FatherZaraf ZARIFI of Constantinople

Marriageabt 1770