Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameUlysses 'Odysseus' (Zannis) Negroponte
Birth19 Nov 1832, Constantinople, Turkey
Death23 Mar 1914, Paris, France
Burial25 Mar 1914, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France
Note 1Or Ulysse Negropontes. Knight of the Order of The Saviour. Rémy Benoit says Sophia Zarifi was married to a Miltiade Negroponte... A significant property owner in Romania.
FlagsConstantinople, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Negroponte, Scanavi, Turkey
FatherZannis (Theodore) Negroponte (ca1797-?)
MotherCatherine (Ulysses) Meimarides (?-1891)
Marriage2 Jan 1869, Constantinople, Turkey
Married MemoOr 2 Jan 1864 in Constantinople.
SpouseSophia (George) Zarifi, GG Granddaughter
Birth2 Apr 1848, Pera/Stavrodromi, Constantinople, Turkey
MemoSimeonoglou says she was born 24 March 1845.
Death7 Jun 1923, 106 Rue de la Faisanderie, Paris 16ème, France
Burial13 Jun 1923, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France
Baptismabt 1848
Memo“She was baptised by Pantias Tzitzinias, whose ancestry-was from Chios but who later became an Italian count.” - GZ
Residence1923, 106 Rue de la Faisanderie, Paris 16ème, France
Note 1She appears in a 1905 photograph with her mother and sister-in-law (Akylas Millas ‘E Prinkipos’ Athens 1988).
God-parentsPantias Tzitzinias (Zizinia).
Note 2She employed Chariclea Zaharoff (sister of Basil) as her children’s tutor, for many years. Chariclea and two sisters had lost their dowries when their brother had squandered the family’s fortune.
FlagsConstantinople, Kaplanoglou, Turkey, Zafiropoulo, Zarifi
FatherGeorge (Ioannis) Zarifi (1807-1884)
Children
1 MGeorge (Ulysses) Negroponte, GGG Grandson
Birth8 Nov 1871, Galatz/Galati, Romania
Death5 Jan 1945, Bucharest, Romania
SpouseChariklea (Ioannis) Scanavi (1889-1978)
Marriage20 May 1912, Paris, France
ChildrenJean Ulysses (George) (1914-1915)
 Ulysses (George) (1916-)
 Ioannis (George) (1918-1983)
 Theresa ‘Zizica’ (George) (1918-)
 Theodore ‘Teddy’ (George) (1921-1950)
2 FCatherine ‘Catina’ (Ulysses) Negroponte, GGG Granddaughter
Birth21 Dec 1869, Constantinople, Turkey
Death24 May 1924, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France
SpouseCount Hector (Dimitrios) Economo (1864-1924)
Marriage21 Jun 1893, Paris, France
Married MemoGeorge Zarifi is convinced they married at the Romanian Church in 1892.
ChildrenCatherine Sonia (Hector) (1895-1934)
 Ion ‘Johnny’ (Hector) (~1894-1928)
3 MJohn (Ulysses) Negroponte, GGG Grandson
Birth5 Mar 1874, Constantinople, Turkey
Death?
4 MTheodore (Ulysses) Negroponte, GGG Grandson
Birth7 Dec 1875, Constantinople, Turkey
Death1878, Constantinople, Turkey
5 FEleni (Ulysses) Negroponte, GGG Granddaughter
Birth23 Mar 1881, Constantinople, Turkey
Death28 Dec 1953, Bucharest, Romania
SpouseGeneral Eremia (Gregory) Grigorescu (1863-1919)
Marriage1916, Romania
ChildrenDan Ulysses (Eremia) (1917-1990)
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