Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameLoucas (Alexander) Vlasto +, G Grandson
Birthabt 1789, Chios, Greece/Hellenes (probably)
Death23 Apr 1822, Chios, Greece/Hellenes
Burial1822, Chios, Greece/Hellenes
MemoIf buried at all...
ResidenceChios, Greece/Hellenes
Note 1Taken hostage and hanged by the Turks, 23 Apr 1822, Chios, The Hellenes.
Note 2Just before he was hanged he handed his Breguet watch (made in Paris but with Islamic numerals) to his 2nd cousin Michael Stephanos Vlasto, then the chief demogeront on the island of Chios, who survived the massacres.
Note 3This Breguet watch was passed down the generations from Michael Stephanos Vlasto to his son Dimitri Michael Vlasto, to his grandson Ernest-Michel Vlasto and his great-grandson Michel-Ernest Dimitri Vlasto who gave it to his grandson Christopher Long in ca. 1973.
Note 4The plaque above the dungeon in which he and others were held reads: “In this dark dungeon in the year 1822, 74 members of noble Chian families were kept prisoner as hostages of the Turks, and from here on 23rd April 1822...
Note 5... after untold suffering, the Bishop of Chios, Metropolitan Plato, and 46 others were hanged: they died for their faith and for their country.”
Flags***, Argenti, Avierino, Cantacuzene, Coressi, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Petrocochino, Rodocanachi, Scaramanga, Schilizzi, Vlasto
FatherAlexander (Antoine) Vlasto (~1760-?)
MotherZenni (Zannis) Schilizzi (?-?)
Marriage?
SpouseMarouko (Michael) Paspati
Birth?
Death?
FlagsPaspati
FatherMichael (Philip) Paspati (1750-1800)