Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameLeonidas (George) Zarifi, GG Grandson
Birth16 Dec 1840, Balat, Constantinople, Turkey
MemoSturdza says 1839.
Death1 Mar 1923, Kiphissia, Athens, Greece/Hellenes
MemoAnother source says died 1929.
ResidenceTherapeia (Tarabya), Bosphorus, Constantinople, Turkey
ResidenceTepebaşı Street, Pera/Stavrodromi, Constantinople, Turkey
OccupationBanker, Constantinople.
Note 1A 1910 sketch by Hassan shows a Leonidas and George Zarifi, Count Ostrorog, etc.
Note 2Portraits of a Leonidas Zarifi appear among the 8 albums of cartes de visite dating from 1860 -1861 by the diplomat turned photographer Camille Silvy in the National Portrait Gallery.
Note 3Bought a number of properties mostly on Princes Islands in the Bosphorus including an orphanage. He and his family wintered in mansions in Tepebasi and spent the summer on the Bosphorus.
Note 4His house at Therapia was sold by his sons in 1935. It was occupied by the American diplomat Morgenthau (married to a Ralli) during WWI, when Leonidas and Euphrosyne took refuge in Switzerland (cf. Henry Morgenthau, 'Secrets of the Bosphorus').
Note 5On 30 June 1886 Zarifi Brother & Co (London) was dissolved (partners were: S. Zafiropulo. P. Simiriotti. N. Zarifi. Michael Zarifi. P. G. Zarifi. J. M. Zarifi. L. G. Zarifi. Theodore M. Zarifi)
Note 5He spent time in London with his uncle Michael and his Zarifi Bros bank. In the Marseilles Zarifi office he had a desk next to that of Maurice Rouvier, who later became prime minister of France but who began as an employee at Zafiropoulos & Zarifis.
God-parentsNicholas (Ioannis) Zarifi.
FlagsConstantinople, Greece, Kaplanoglou, Turkey, Zafiropoulo, Zarifi
FatherGeorge (Ioannis) Zarifi (1807-1884)
MotherEleni (Dimitrios) Zafiropoulo (1817-1910)
Marriage13 Sep 1879, Prinkipos, Sea of Marmara
Married MemoOr 20 Sep 1879
SpouseEuphrosyne 'Phrosso' (George) Nicolopoulo
Birth1856, Yeni Çarşı, Pera, Constantinople, Turkey
MemoOr 1857 according George Zarifi memoirs
Death14 Nov 1933, Lausanne, Switzerland
MemoAnother source says 1943.
ResidenceTepebaşı Street, Pera/Stavrodromi, Constantinople, Turkey
Note 1She was god-mother in London, 1889, to Helen Nicolopoulos, b. 1884, daughter of Athanasios, merchant of Constantinople, & Anna.
Marr. WitnessNicolaos Zarifi (his uncle, who also hosted the reception).
Note 2A 1904 newspaper refers to her brother Jean, living in Paris. A Jean Nicolopoulo, born 1855, was living in Paris in 1931.
Note 3She first met Leonidas in 1879 at a party organised by Theodore Mavrogordato and married two months later.
FlagsConstantinople, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Ralli(Chaviara), Scanavi, Turkey, Vouro
FatherGeorge (Athanasios) Nicolopoulo (?-~1897)
MotherAthina (Ioannis) Psomiadis (?-?)
Children
1 MGeorge Leonidas (Leonidas) Zarifi, GGG Grandson
Birth13 Jan 1881, 23 Tepebaşı Street, Pera/Stavrodromi, Constantinople, Turkey
MemoBorn in his grandparents’ house. ther source says 1880 and 1883. Sturdza says 1879.
Death6 Jul 1943, Athens, Greece/Hellenes
SpouseArghyri ‘Lili’ (Stamatios) Krinos (1887-1975)
Marriage1918, Delagracia, Syros, Greece/Hellenes
ChildrenHélène (Georges) (1920-1997)
Thérèse (Georges) (1929-)
2 FEleni ‘Hélène’ (Leonidas) Zarifi, GGG Granddaughter
Birth10 Jun 1882, Constantinople, Turkey
Death15 Apr 1976, Lausanne, Switzerland
SpouseStephanos 'Etienne' (Eustace) Eugenidi (1879-1957)
Marriage1905, Constantinople, Turkey
ChildrenMarie 'Mimi' (Stephanos) (1906-1992)
Euphrosyne ‘Phrosso’ (Stephanos) (1908-1983)
Irene (Stephanos) (1912-?)
Eustace ‘Stathy’ (Stephanos) (1914-1946)
3 MLéonidas Theodoros ‘Leon’ (Leonidas) Zarifi, GGG Grandson
Birth31 Oct 1884, Constantinople, Turkey
Death18 Jul 1963, 108 Queen Sophia Avenue, Athens, Greece
4 MStephane (Leonidas) Zarifi, GGG Grandson
BirthFeb 1886, Therapeia
MemoOr perhaps 1885.
Death24 Jun 1971, Athens, Greece/Hellenes
SpouseMaria (Charalambos) Grecousci (1895-1985)
Marriage1917, Athens, Greece/Hellenes
ChildrenEuphrosyne 'Phrosso' (Stéphane) (1918-2008)
Theodora Melpomene 'Dolla' (Stephane) (1920-2005)
Sofia 'Sonia' (Stéphane) (1922-)
5 MConstantine ‘Costas’ (Leonidas) Zarifi, GGG Grandson
Birth1891
MemoAnother source says 1892.
Death13 Apr 1979, Athens, Greece/Hellenes
SpouseEleni 'Lena' Stathatos (1900-1991)
Marriage1919
ChildrenNora (Constantine) (1920-2020)
Leonidas 'Lenos' (Constantine) (1925-2003)