Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameGeorge ZARIFI, GGGG Grandfather
Birth1750, Vori, Island of Pasalimani, Sea of Marmara
MemoAnother source says ca 1740.
Death?
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.
Flags***, Zarifi
Marriageabt 1770
SpouseSultana ‘Sultanitsa’ [Zarifi], GGGG Grandmother
Birth?
Death?
Flags***
Children
2 MTselebis Ioannis ‘Ianko’ (Zarifis) Zarifi, GGG Grandfather
Birth1780, Megalo Rheuma
MemoAnother source says ca. 1770
Deathca 1850, Prinkipos, Sea of Marmara
MemoSoon after 1850 according to George L. Zarifi.
BurialChurch of the Panagia, Pera, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium
SpouseKokona Tarsitsa ‘Tarsi’ (Iordanaki) Kaplanoglou , GGG Grandmother (~1780-1850)
Marriageabt 1805
ChildrenGeorge (Ioannis) (1807-1884)
Iordanis (Ioannis) (1815-?)
Alexander (Ioannis) (ca1812->1872)
Petros (Ioannis) (ca1811->1885)
Sultanitsa (Ioannis) (1817-1886)
Michael (Ioannis) (1818-1891)
Nicolas (Ioannis) (1820-1895)