Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameZannis ‘Jean’ (Nicolas) Chryssoveloni, 7G Grandson
Birth10 May 1881, Galatz/Galati, Romania
Death22 Oct 1926, Bucharest, Romania
ResidenceRue de Varennes, Paris, France
Memo1n 1999 the French Ministry of War.
OccupationBanker.
Note 1Or Chrissoveloni. May have been called Ioannis, Zannis or Zanni. ‘Good-looking and charming’, he inherited the Romanian family bank, by now with branches in Paris and London.
Note 2The extension built on to the back of the Ghidigeni house in Romania was used as a hospital during the 1916-1918 war (where Queen Marie worked as a nurse) and was an orphanage during Communist times.
Note 3He also constructed a distillery and a railway link across the River Bûrlad to the main line. The property covered 22,000 hectares, of which 11,000 were arable (reduced to 2,500 after WWl).
Note 4There were two swimming pools, a bowling green and an indoor tennis court. Zanni developed the village, building the church and town hall, and built houses where gypsies could settle and provide labour for the property.
Note 4Owner of a 40/50 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost (6LG) built 1921 (motor no. 0223), coachwork (Salamanca Cabriolet) by Barker, no. 4645 found on the floorboard. Another source records J. Chrissoveloni as owner of a pre-WWl Rolls Royce n. 1660.
Note 5Died of a brain tumour before he could marry Marie-Angèle ‘Margèle’ Polizu-Micsunesti.
FlagsAvierino, Calvocoressi, Chryssoveloni, Sevastopoulos
FatherNicolas (Zanni) Chryssoveloni (1838-1913)
MotherCalliroi (Dimitrios) Economo (1857-1949)
Marriage11 Oct 1907, Galatz/Galati, Romania
SpouseSybille (Edward) Youell
Birth1879, Galatz/Galati, Romania
Death3 Nov 1931, Paris, France
ResidenceRue de Varennes, Paris, France
Memo1n 1999 the French Ministry of War.
Note 1Second of four daughters. A close friend of Queen Marie of Romania (also English). During the First World War she and her husband ran the hospital established on their estate Guidigene in Moldovia.
Note 2“... In 1917 General Poole met Sybille’s mother Mrs Youell, who was English and the daughter of Watson, who was in partnership with Edward P. Youell...”
Note 3“... Watson and Youell were ship owners and agents in Brăila and Galaţi, whence there was a significant export trade for corn grown in Wallachia, and they represented Furness Withy, the British shipping line...”
FatherEdward P. Youell (?-?)
MotherMary Watson (?-?)
Children
1 MNicolas ‘Nicky’ (Ioannis) Chryssoveloni, 8G Grandson
Birth21 Jun 1909, Paris, France
Death4 Oct 1972, Athens, Greece/Hellenes
MemoSturdza says Geneva.
SpouseGeorgette (George) Lakeman (?-?)
ChildrenSybille (Nicolas) (1942-)
Jean (Nicolas) (1943-)
Elena (Nicolas) (1946-)
Irina (Nicolas) (1946-)