Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameAristides (Peter) Cavafy
Birth9 Apr 1853, 33 Bedford Street South, Liverpool, England
MemoArgenti says 23 Jun 1854. Or 4 Apr 1853 (see Metaxa).
Death8 Jan 1902, Cairo, Egypt
MemoArgenti says 6 Dec 1902.
BurialChatby, Alexandria, Egypt
MemoBuried in Cairo but bones transferred to Chatby, Alexandria.
OccupationMerchant trader and stock broker. Director of the Société Commercial ‘Le Khedive’.
Note 1When he married, went into partnership with brother-in-law Dimitri Vouro. But within months (August 1889) Aristides deserted his pregnant wife and absconded with £80 cash, boarding a French steamer for Marseilles.
Note 2Wrote to his wife (promising to return at once if she would undertake to ‘mend’) and to his brother-in-law Dimitri Vouro (asking for £90 to settle business affairs, and confessing the loss of Maria’s dowry, apparently some £4,500).
Note 3Aristides eventually returned, though not before taking some sort of nerve cure in Europe. Remained a broker in Alexandria until 1894, then moved to Cairo, where he was manager of the Laurens cigarette company.
FlagsCavafy, Photiades
FatherPeter John (Ioannis) Cavafy (1814-1870)
MotherHariclea (Georgios) Photiades (1834-1899)
Marriage9 Feb 1889, Alexandria, Egypt
SpouseMaria (Zorzis) Vouro, 7G Granddaughter
Birth10 May 1860, Braïla, Romania
Death18 Oct 1950, Platres, Cyprus
Flags***, Argenti, Avierino, Calvocoressi, Giustiniani Fi, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Negroponte, Petrocochino, Ralli (Chaviara), Rodocanachi, Sevastopoulos, Vouro
FatherZorzis (Dimitri) Vouro (1816-1896)
MotherJulia (Theodore) Rodocanachi (1833-1930)
Children
1 FChariclea Theodora (Aristides) Cavafy, 8G Granddaughter
Birth21 Jan 1896, Alexandria, Egypt
MemoSturdza says 1891
Death5 Mar 1983, Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece/Hellenes
SpouseCount Geronymos (Georgios) Valieri (1893-1951)
Marriage1923, Alexandria, Egypt