Person Sheet
Person Sheet
NameHelen (Michael) Zarifi, G Grandmother
Birth27 Jul 1860, London, England
Death24 Oct 1946, 29 Cleveland Gardens, Westminster, London, England
MemoCAL has a copy of her Will.
Burial26 Oct 1946, Hellenic Enclosure, West Norwood Cemetery, London, England
MemoCremated 26 Oct 1946. Commemorated on her family tomb.
Baptism2 Sep 1860, Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England
Residence1888, 69 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris 8ème, France
Residencebef 1900, 7 Rue Lamennais, Paris 8ème, France
Residence48 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, Westminster, London, England
Residence1939, 6 Irvine Court, 37 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, Westminster, London, England
OriginLondon.
Note 1A plaintiff in the 1921 Kessisoglu libel trial. Among her closest friends were Miss Margaret Bisland, Miss Elpiniki Eumorfopoulos and Mrs Penelope Cassavetti (née Constantinidi).
Marr. WitnessStephen Zafiropoulos and A. Vlasto (presumably Antoine Vlasto).
God-parentsAriadne Sevastopoulos.
FatherMichael (Ioannis) Zarifi (1818-1891)
MotherFanny (Theodore) Kessisoglu (1837-1911)
Spouses
1Ernest Michel (Dimitri) Vlasto, G Grandfather
Birth1 Jan 1848, Jassy/Iasi, Romania
MemoOr 2 Jan 1848. Kerofilas says 13 Jan 1848.
Death26 Mar 1900, 6 Rue Chateaubriand, Paris 8ème, France
MemoProbably a clinic of some sort. His death certificate is signed by his brother Antoine Vlasto and his brother-in-law John Zarifi of London.
Burial29 Mar 1900, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France
MemoBoulogne-Billlancourt. Service at the Greek Church, Rue Bizet, Paris
Residence1888, 69 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris 8ème, France
Residence1900, 7 Rue Lamennais, Paris 8ème, France
Residence1884-94, 44 Rue des Ecoles, Paris, France
MemoAddress given to the Société Française de Photographie: perhaps where he was teaching or had an office?
OccupationEngineer. Pioneer of the French telephony and sub-marine telephone cabling systems.
EducationLycée Henri lV, Paris (then the Lycée Napoleon). École Normale, Paris (1868). Qualified 1871. But see Extrait du Bulletin of the École Central 1899-1900 (p. 139).
OriginWallachia/Moldavia.
Note 1Author of ‘Leçons Des Choses’. Became ill in the 1890s and died in a Paris clinic in 1900. Member of the Société Française de Photographie from 1884 to 1894 (the year that his terminal illness started).
FatherDimitri (Michael) Vlasto (1820-1863)
MotherNathalia (Antonio) Winkler de Dwernicka (1826-1915)
Marriage28 Jan 1882, Greek Orthodox Cathedral, St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, Westminster, London, England
Married MemoMarriage notice in the The Pall Mall Gazette, 31 Jan 1882. Ernest Vlasto and Helene Zarifi announced their intent to marry on 18 Dec 1881.
ChildrenFanny Marie Nathalie (Ernest) (1884-1959)
Marie Antoinette 'Netta' (Ernest) (1886-1989)
Michel Ernest Theodore Dimitri (Ernest) (1888-1979)