Maria (Marigo) Ralli was the daughter of Antonios Ralli and Catherine Mavrogordato and was born in London (England) in 1852. She married the physician John Cavafy in London in 1873; he was the first cousin of the poet (his father, Georgios, was the brother of the poet’s father). They had a daughter, Catherine (Kitty, subsequently Ionides). Marigo Cavafy died in Hove, Sussex, in 1916.