Individual Details

Birth

Date from husband, John's, Petition for Naturalization.

Census

1920 Federal Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Enumerated January 10, 1920.
823 Locust Street
Line 8: Costianes, John, Head, male, white, age 25, married, year of immigration: 1912, Naturalized in 1917, can read and write, born in Greece; parents born in Greece; mother tongue: Greek; can speak English; occupation: laborer, lumber yard
Line 9: Costianes, Bertha, wife, female, white, age 25, married, year of immigration: 1912, Naturalized, cannot read and write, born in Greece; parents born in Greece; mother tongue: Greek; can speak English; occupation: none.
Line 10: Costianes, no name, daughter, female, white, age 2/12.

Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Philadelphia Ward 8, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1616; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 174; Image: 30
Enumeration District : 0174; Description: Philadelphia City, Ward 8, Tract H 1 (part) bounded by Walnut, 8th, Locust, Hutchinson
Source Information Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).

Census

1930 Federal Census, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Enumerated March 26, 1930
270 Kalos Street
Lines 13-18
Costianes, John, Head, male, white, age 35, married, age at 1st marriage: 25, does not attend school; can read and write, birthplace: Greece: parents birthplace: Greece: language: Greek; immigration year 1912, Naturalized, can speak English; occupation: waiter in restaurant
Costianes, Bertha, wife, female, white, age 35, married; age at first marriage: 22; did not attend school; cannot read and write, birthplace: Greece: parents birthplace: Greece: language: Greek; immigration year 1913; alien, cannot speak English; no occupation.
Costianes, Mado [Mandy or Amanda] daughter, female, white, age 10, single, attends school, can read and write, born in Pennsylvania, parents born in Greece; can speak English.
Costianes, Helen, daughter, female, white, age 9, single, attends school, can read and write, born in Pennsylvania, parents born in Greece; can speak English.
Costianes, Bessie, daughter, female, white, age 4-3/12, single, does not attend school, born in Pennsylvania, parents born in Greece; can speak English.
Baharis, George, boarder, male, white, age 23, single, does not attend school; can read and write, birthplace: New York parents birthplace: Greece: language: Greek; immigration year 1912, Naturalized, can speak English; occupation: cook in restaurant

Source Citation Year: 1930; Census Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: 2103;Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0607; Image: 798.0; FHL microfilm: 2341837
Description: PHILADELPHIA CITY, WARD 21 (PART), BOUNDED BY (N) KALOS, RIGHTER, OSBORN; (E) VICARIS; (S) MANAYUNK AVE.; (W) RIDGE AVE.Source InformationAncestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.

Census

1940 Federal Census
Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey
10 Spring Street
Lines 17-23:
Costianes, John, (informant), head, male, white, age 45, married, finished grade 6, birthplace: Greece; naturalized; residence in 1935: Philadelphia, PA, worked 85 hours as owner of restaurant.
Costianes, Bertha, wife, female, white, age 44, married, no school education, birthplace: Greece, alien, residence in 1935: Philadelphia, PA; no occupation
Costianes, Amanda, daughter, female, white, age 20, single, finished 4 hears high school, birthplace: Pennsylvania, residence in 1935: Philadelphia, PA, worked 44 hours as clerk in retail department store.
Costianes, Helen, daughter, female, white, age 20, single, finished 4 hears high school, birthplace: Pennsylvania, residence in 1935: Philadelphia, PA; no work
Costianes, Catherine, daughter, female, white, age 20, single, finished 4 hears high school, birthplace: Pennsylvania, residence in 1935: Philadelphia, PA, no work.
Costianes, Peter, son, male, white, age 9, single, in school, finished 3rd grade.
Sefurlis, Peter, lodger, male, white, age 53, single, finished 4 years of school, born in Greece; naturalized; in 1935 lived in Courtland, NY, worked 40 hours as a waiter in restaurant.

Source CitationYear: 1940; Census Place: Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey;  Roll: T627_2357;Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 11-61
Description: PRINCETON BOROUGH BOUNDED BY (N) BOROUGH LIMITS; (E) WALNUT LN, HAMILTON AV, MOORE; (S) NASSAU; (W) WITHERSPOONSource InformationAncestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.

Alien Registration

Bertha has a 48 page Alien Registration File.
A pdf is uploaded to her page on FamilySearch Family Tree; copies are in the Costianes digital file.

Residence

U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989, New Jersey, Princeton, New Jersey, 1942
Costianes, Amanda V. slswmn Nat Wolman's Dpet Store r 10 Spring
- Helen, beauty opr r 10 Spring
- John A (Bertha) (G & L Restaurant) h 10 Spring
- Louis (Bessie) (G & L Restaurant), h 8 Spring

Description Title : Princeton, New Jersey, City Directory, 1942Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Note: Bertha is in the following Princeton City Directories: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942
ancestry.com

Burial

Find A Grave Memorial# 167757742
Bertha M. Costianes

Birth: 1895, Greece
Death: 1965, USA
Born in Sparta, Greece. 
 
Family links: 
 Spouse:
  John A. Costianes (1895 - 1980)*
 
 Children:
  Kathryn Constance Treires (1924 - 1997)

 Burial:
Princeton Cemetery 
Princeton
Mercer County
New Jersey, USA
 
Maintained by: Gary Petranek
Originally Created by: Henna Ellie
Record added: Aug 04, 2016 
Find A Grave Memorial# 167757742

Death

Costianes (Costas) -- In Princeton, N.J. on July 13, Bertha, wife of John A. Costianes in the 71 year of her age. Funeral services will begin at 1 PM Friday, July 16 at Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Ave, Princeton with prayers by the Rev. Nicholas Terezakis and to be continued a the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George's, Mercer and Market Sts, Trenton. Interment will be in Princeton Cemetery. Friends are invited to call at the funeral home Thursday evening between 7 and 9 PM. The Rev. Nicholas Triandofilu will read the service of the Trisagion at 8 PM. [Trenton Evening Times, July 14, 1965, page 46. Source: GenealogyBank.com]
(A copy of this is in our Genealogy Research digital files: Costianes.)

Obituary

Costianes (Costas) -- In Princeton, N.J. on July 13, Bertha, wife of John A. Costianes in the 71 year of her age. Funeral services will begin at 1 PM Friday, July 16 at Kimble Funeral Home, 1 Hamilton Ave, Princeton with prayers by the Rev. Nicholas Terezakis and to be continued a the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George's, Mercer and Market Sts, Trenton. Interment will be in Princeton Cemetery. Friends are invited to call at the funeral home Thursday evening between 7 and 9 PM. The Rev. Nicholas Triandofilu will read the service of the Trisagion at 8 PM. [Trenton Evening Times, July 14, 1965, page 46. Source: GenealogyBank.com]
(A copy of this is in our Genealogy Research digital files: Costianes.)

Burial

Burial place from obituary and tombstone