Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NamePetros Paul (Paul) Rodocanachi +, 6G Grandson
Birth4 Dec 1791, Chios, Greece/Hellenes
Death23 Apr 1822, Chios, Greece/Hellenes
Note 1According to Argenti, taken hostage and hanged by the Turks, 23 Apr 1822, Chios, The Hellenes. According to Catsiyannis Petros was decapitated in his father-in-law’s garden while Franga was forced to watch in order to obtain their gold.
Note 2Although not one of those held hostage and then hanged on 23 Apr 1822, his name appears with those who were on the memorial in Vounaki Square, Chios.
Note 3If his widow, Franga, was indeed the writer of a letter dated 4 May 1822 to her brother Zannis in Constantinople, he was killed in front of her by the Turks.
Note 4Presumably the person cited in the Journal de Paris (Sep 1822) as a victim of the Chios massacres.
Flags JournalDeParisMassacreList, +1822, Calvocoressi, Caradja, Chios, Coressi, Giustiniani Pi, Greece, Grimaldi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Petrocochino, Ralli(Chaviara), Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Schilizzi
FatherPaul (Emmanuel) Rodocanachi (1749-1801)
MotherIoanna 'Yangou' (George) Ralli (1765-1845)
Marriage? , Chios, Greece/Hellenes
SpouseFranga (Stephanis) Schilizzi, 5G Granddaughter
Birth1801, Chios, Greece/Hellenes
MemoAccording to Zannis Schilizzi, though Argenti says 1808...
Death25 Dec 1851, Constantinople, Turkey
Memo25th Dec according to Zannis Schilizzi and 26th Dec according to Argenti.
Note 1She arrived in Constantinople on 5 Jun 1840 with her son Paul. Her brother Zannis paid 5,000 grossia each to St John’s Church, Galata, and to St Victor, Chios, for masses to be read for her by a bishop every year on 30th Jan.
Note 2She was forced at knife-point to watch her husband being decapitated but escaped with her mother and son after after handing over the family’s gold.
Note 3On 4th May 1822 she was presumably the writer of a letter to a brother in Constantinople to say she had been held in the Chios Castro as a slave for ransom but had sought protection from the Austrian Consul and now needed money to escape the island...
Note 4... if so, she was 21 at the time and her brother might have been Zannis aged 16?. A copy of the letter, anonymised, appeared in a tract dated 30 July 1822, published in Edinburgh, seeking support for Greek victims of the Chios massacres...
Note 5... the writer says she was happy to hear that “our family” and “our mother” [perhaps the widowed Hypatia Calvocoressi 1765-1832] had escaped. Zannis, she says, is hidden securely with an English friend in Constantinople.
Note 5In 2025 Andreas Apostolides wrote to say that he was a sixth-generation descendant of Franga Rodocanachi (née Schilizzi)
Flags+1822, Avierino, Calvocoressi, Cantacuzene, Caradja, Chios, Constantinople, Coressi, Giustiniani Pi, Greece, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Negroponte, Rodocanachi, Scaramanga, Schilizzi, Sevastopoulos, Turkey
FatherChadzi Stephanis (Zannis) Schilizzi (1757-1820)
MotherHypatia (Zorzis) Calvocoressi (1765-1832)
Children
1 MPaul (Petros) Rodocanachi, 6G Grandson
Birth8 Sep 1820, Chios, Greece/Hellenes
MemoOld calendar date.
Death8 May 1842, Constantinople, Turkey
MemoOld calendar date.
Burial1842, Saint John of the Chiots, Galata/Karaköy, Constantinople, Turkey