Alexander Constantine 'Alec' (Constantine) Ionides & Calliope 'Opie' (Michael) Zarifi °

Family Group Sheet

NameAlexander Constantine 'Alec' (Constantine) Ionides

Birth12 Jul 1862, Pera, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Death2 Nov 1931, London, England

MemoOr 1952 according to Sturdza (wrong!).

Burial5 Nov 1931, Greek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England

Residence1892-1931, 34 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England

Residence1887, 20 Westbourne Terrace, Bayswater, London, England

OccupationMerchant and engineer. Stockbroker and company director.

EducationRadley School.

OriginConstantinople. London.

Note 1Author of ‘Ion - A Grandfather’s Tale’ (1927). Produced scientific papers. A plaintiff in the 1921 Kessisoglu libel trial. Left an estate of £21,807.00 to his widow. His portrait was painted by G. F. Watts, Legros, Swan, Bellinger and painted in RI group.

Note 2Presumably the A. C. Ionides whoi was a founder of the Anglo-Hellenic League with D. J. Cassavetti in c. 1913.

Note 3In the early 1900s he became guardian and mentor to his nephew by marriage, Michel E. T. D. Vlasto, who came to loathe his bullying and constant criticism.

Flags***, Avierino, Calvocoressi, Ionides, Petrocochino, Scanavi, Sevastopoulos

FatherConstantine Alexander (Alexander) Ionides (1833-1900)

MotherAgathonike (Constantine) Fenerlis (1841-1920)

Marriage22 Jan 1887, Greek Orthodox Cathedral, St Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater, London, England

SpouseCalliope 'Opie' (Michael) Zarifi °, G Granddaughter

Birth6 Sep 1864

MemoHer tomb says 1865.

Death18 Nov 1952, London, England

BurialGreek Orthodox Cemetery, West Norwood, London, England

Baptism27 Nov 1864, Church of Our Saviour, London Wall, City of London, England

Residence1938, 20 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England

Residence1939, 30 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England

Residence1952, 48 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London, England

Note 1A plaintiff in the 1921 Kessisoglu libel trial. She left an estate of £20,714.00 to her daughters Alexandra Bowhill and Nellie Demetriadi. Her portrait was painted by Swan and she appears in the RI group.

Note 2An oil on canvas portrait of her by John Macallan Swan, dated 1901, was given by her to the Salford Art Gallery in 1944.

Note 3She almost certainly attended, with her daughter Opie, a Helen Vlasto (née Zarifi) family house party at Glenlyon House, Fortingall, Scotland in ca.1909

Marr. WitnessJohn Balli and Dorothy Manuel.

God-parentsXenophon Balli.

Flags***, Boscovic, Giustiniani Pi, Kaplanoglou, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Zarifi

FatherMichael (Ioannis) Zarifi (1818-1891)

MotherFanny (Theodore) Kessisoglu (1837-1911)

Children