Stephanos ‘Etienne’ (Dimitrios) Mavrogordato & Alice Fanny (Richard) Sarell-Razi

Family Group Sheet

NameStephanos ‘Etienne’ (Dimitrios) Mavrogordato, 1C6R

Birth7 Sep 1808, Kurucesme, Bosphorus, Turkey

Death10 Mar 1872, Ayia Paraskevi Church, Therapia, Constantinople/Istanbul

OccupationBanker.

OriginSmyrna but of Austrian nationality.

Note 1Built a grand house in 1862 on the hill behind Therapia on the Bosphorus. Owing to the Massacres of Chios he fled to Trieste and Livorno and then to Constantinople, Berlin, the Taurus and Baku...

Note 2Charlie Sarell believes he was a widower before 1853 though his previous wife is not recorded/known. It appears that he had Austrian nationality which would suggest he had lived in Trieste.

Note 3Studied banking in Italy (Trieste?) before moving to Constantinople to set up the Ottoman banking system with 10 other Greek-born bankers (including Theodore Baltazzi?) which dominated the banking system for over 40 years.

Note 4When he was bankrupted his house was saved for him by Aristides Baltazzi though he became terminally depressed by his situation.

Flags***, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Scanavi

FatherDimitrios (Ioannes) Mavrogordato (?-1864)

MotherCaterina Curtovic (?-?)

Marriage29 Jan 1853, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

SpouseAlice Fanny (Richard) Sarell-Razi

Birth7 Apr 1833, Therapia, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

MemoCharlie Sarell says 18 April 1835

Death9 Oct 1887, Therapia, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

BurialAyia Paraskevi Church, Therapia, Constantinople/Istanbul

Note 1She was the seventh child with a twin sister Harriet, and other sisters Eliza, Nizza and Helen. Her uncle Jonathan Hardy was vice-consul chancellor at the (British?) embassy in Constantinople in the 1840s.

Note 2Brought up in Constantinople and married the banker Stephen Mavrogordato (a widower). On 10th Dec 1854 they are recorded as dining on HMS Queen, invited by Captain Michell.

Note 3Travelled throughout Europe and met Henrietta Iwan Muller in Berlin in Oct 1866. An eldest brother Philip drowned in 1864.

Note 4In 2007 Charlie Sarell said that Alice had a sister Eliza, married to Theodore Baltazzi. Sturdza believes that Theodore Baltazzi’s wife had other parents... This problem needs to be resolved...

Note 5Alice’s brother, Dr Richard Sarell, married Thalia, a niece of Stephen Mavrogordato, at the British Embassy chapel in Constantinople (an unsuccessful second marriage for Richard).

FatherRichard Sarell (?-~1843)

MotherEuphrosyne Rhasi (?-?)

Children

1 MGeorge (Stephanos) Mavrogordato, 2C5R

Birth4 Jun 1854, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Death4 Jun 1926, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

2 FEuphrosyne ‘Frosso’ (Stephanos) Mavrogordato, 2C5R

Birth7 May 1855, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Death30 Nov 1912, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

3 FMary (Stephanos) Mavrogordato, 2C5R

Birth25 Aug 1856, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Death9 Jun 1956

4 MJohn (Stephanos) Mavrogordato, 2C5R

Birth8 Mar 1858, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Death19 Jan 1933

5 MAlexander (Stephanos) Mavrogordato, 2C5R

Birth24 Oct 1859, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Death15 Jan 1929, Palazzo Donn'Anna, Posillipo, Naples, Italy

MemoArgenti says 11 Jan 1930, Naples. He ‘passed over’ on 16 Jan 1929 at [Palazzo] Donn'Anna, Posillipo, Naples, according to the notice in the The Times, 21 Jan 1929.

SpouseAlyson Beatrice (George) Young (1865-1948)

Marriage13 Feb 1886, Nicosia, Cyprus

ChildrenArthur Stephen (Alexander) (1886-1964)

Frances Alyson (Alexander) (1894-1972)

6 MTheodore (Stephanos) Mavrogordato, 2C5R

Birth3 Apr 1861, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Death28 Jul 1913, London, England

MemoArgenti says 1914.

Burial30 Jul 1913, Paddington Cemetery, London, England

MemoDescribed as Theodore Etienne Mavrogordato.

SpouseEthel Constance (Joseph) Kenworthy (1861-1919)

Marriage17 Nov 1886, Nicosia, Cyprus