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Named as father in 2 Mitroon Arrenons: Christos and Vasileios.

Mihael Aridas is named as Mihael MIHALAKAKOS in the marriage record of his daughter, Golfo, to Georges A. Messarhakis; Elen Liakakon is named as Golfo's mother. (Digital image in Golfo Aridas/Mihalakakos file; transcript in Golfo's marriage field). Also, see:
15 March 1950 The Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio 
News of Society
Mrs. Nick Revelos of Harrison St. is in New York where she will leave Friday for Sparta, Greece.  She will leave on the tourist ship Nea Hellas which is arranged for by the Ahepans and Daughters of Penelope for members to tour the old country.  Mrs. Revelos will visit her family Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mihalakakos of St. John, Sparta Greece.  She will be gone for three months.  Bill Revelos will take the same trip and visit his family.
Source: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohgaim/OldNewspapers.htm

The school records of daughters, Anastasia and Efrosyni, list their surname as Michalakakos
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Received from General State Archives of Greece, Archives of Lakonia, Laconia (Sparta Office) - May 2009. Town Register (Dimotologion Koinothtos) Family Number 6:
Aridas Mihail M (father) Christos (mother) Gkolfo born: 1867, Agios Ioannis;death recorded March 24, 1959 "
Eleni F Dimitrios Leakakos; born: 1866 Agios Ioannis; death recorded M arch 11, 1959
Christos M born 1900; death recorded Sept 11 1955
Eleni F father: Vasileos Karteroulis, born 1877 Agios Ioannis
Vasilios M born: 1905 Agios Ioannis; death recorded Sept 11 1955
Panagiotis M born: 1910 Agios Ioannis
Mihalakakos, * Konstantinos M born: 1912 Agios Ioannis, lived in Athen s; death December 12, 1968
Aridas Anastasia F born: 1918 Agios Ioannis married Dec 27 1959

*Note: Received a copy of Family Register from Mystras, from George Revelos in October 2009. That family register had Konstantinos listed. George said the following: "As for Kosta Mihalakakos, that is Kosta Aridas. My uncle wrote my mother back in the late 940's that he had uncovered the real name for Aridas as Mihalakakos. He said that one of the ancestors had long legs which is what Aridas translates to from arida (leg) . It was a nickname that stuck. So, there for a while we were saying th at mom was a Mihalakakos. It didn't take long for that to disappear. I t hink my uncle Kosta had that put in. Maybe the note after his name refe rences that. I can't make out what it says."

From George N. Revelos, as he wrote in website, Family Trees of Southern Parnon (http://karitsa.tribalpages.com): "On 30 March 1921, Michael Aridas, 54, with children Golfo, 20, and Panagiotis, 11, arrived in the United States aboard the "Belvedere" with a combined total of 280 dollars. Their closest relative in Greece was Michalis' wife, Eleni, in Agios Ioannis. They were all arriving in America for the first time, and in the US they were going to stay with Michalis' brother-in-law Philip Vlachos at 31 S Limestone Street in Springfield, Ohio. Michalis was described as a literate workman, 5 feet 8 inches tall, of dark complexion, grey hair and brown eyes. Golfo was described as an illiterate housemaid, 5 fee t 4 inches tall, of fair complexion, with brown hair and eyes. Panagiotis was described as a literate pupil, 4 feet 9 inches tall, of dark complexion, brown hair and eyes."

www.ancestry.com; New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957; Aridas, Michael, Golfo, Panagiotis. National Archives Microfilm serial: T715, Roll 2943; L ine 1, Page #114.

From George N. Revelos, as he wrote in website, Family Trees of Southe rn Parnon (http://karitsa.tribalpages.com): "My grandfather Michael Aridas from Agios Ioannis Sparta had three children from his first wife, Christos, Katina and Golfo. His first wife died and he then married my grandmother Eleni to raise his children. He subsequently had seven or eight children with my grandmother. My mother is the last surviving of all his children. My youngest brother Charlie was struck by a hit and run driver when he was two years old when we visited Thea Eleni Vlahos in Springfield in 1940. My father died the next year. I was 11. My mother raised all of us without remarrying. She was afraid that a stepfather might not treat his stepchildren properly. I've never forgotten that. That 's why I'm her caregiver......"

"Grandfather brought Golfo and his son Panagiotis, his son from his second wife to Springfield to live with Katina in 1921. Golfo married a Pappas from Columbus and died the re in childbirth in 1929. The baby died also. My mother, Frosine visi ted her in Columbus that year. I think Panagiotis lived with her and d ied from the Flu prior to my Mother coming to America. Grandfather returne d to Greece without Golfo and Panagiotis in 1921 or 1922, I'm not sure. " Source: George N. Revelos to email Carol Petranek, October 5, 2009.

I was surprised to get your email.  I would be happy to give you all my information regarding my side of the Aridas family, however it is rather limited.  My great grandparents were Christos and Golfo Aridas.  My mother, Frosine Aridas Revelos, is 101 years old and unfortunately had a stroke in 1997 and suffered both short and long term memory loss. She does not remember her parents and siblings.  However,  I know my grandfather Michael Aridas was married twice and lived in Agios Ioannis. He and his second wife Eleni Karteroulis, my grandmother, had passed by the time I went to Greece.  His youngest living child Anastasia Aridas Pantazou, my mother's sister and my aunt, lived in the "patrico" house. I and my brothers visited many times.  The family home in Agios Ioannis was divided into three homes.  My grandfather's portion faced the road from Sparta as did the portion that Aristides Aridas lived. Michael's nearest Sparta and Aristidis' away from Sparta. I don't know the name of Aristidis' father who would have been my grandfather's brother. the third portion behind the first two,was accessed via a walk from the road on the Sparta side of my grandfather's home.  A Papagianakos family lived there. 

I believe that Aristidis Aridas was a partner in the local bus service in Sparta with a Kostakos from Agios Ioannis.  Aristidis had two children Fifitsa and George.  Fifitsa married and lived in Athens.  I forget her married name.  George married Mantoula (Adamandoula) and lives in his family home.  He was also involved in the bus service after Aristidis passed, but has since retired.  He had two children Aris and Roula who my mother baptized.  Aris lives in Athens and Roula lives with her parents.  She works in one of the banks in Sparta.  She is paralyzed from the waist down due to a motor scooter accident as a teen.  Their address is George Aridas, Agios Ioannis, Sparti 23100, Greece.
 
Now to get to my grandfather.  I don't know his first wife's name.  She bore him three children, Christos, Katina and Golfo.  Christos went to Russia to live with an uncle.  He died during the Russian Revolution, either in the Red or White Army.  He left a Russian wife and children.
During the Greek Civil War after World War II she wrote my grandfather to come to Greece.  Grandfather rejected her pleas because the Communists at that time vowed to send children to indoctrinate Greece to Communism.

Katina married Louis Vlahos (Ilias Vlachos) from Sparta and came to Springfield, Ohio.  She had four children, John, Michael, Lester (Eleftheris) and Maxine (Metaxia).  John Vlahos married Olivia a non Greek from Texas and became a playwright.  He did all the screen plays for "The 3 Mesquiteers"westerns in Hollywood before moving to Connecticut. He wrote plays for Studio One and Omnibus on TV.  He is deceased. His wife taught in college in Connecticut.  They had three children two girls and a boy.  Stephanie was one of the girls. I've forgotten the other's
name. Their son Michael Vlahos was a Washington Naval Intelligence spokesman on the news duringthe Falklands War.  Michael was killed in action in WWII and is buried in the American Cemetery in Belgium.  He was a navigator on a B17 bomber and never married.  Lester married Effie from Huntington, WV. and lived in Dayton, OH.  He had one son Lou.  Maxine married Nick Stamas from Dayton.  Both John and Maxine named their sons after their brother Michael, killed in WWII. She had twin boys Michael and Steven and a daughter Nikki.  Both Lester and Maxine are still living, both widowed.  I was close to the Vlahos family spending many years together visiting my Thea Katina.  Grandfather brought Golfo and his son Panagiotis, his son from his second wife to Springfield to live with Katina in 1921.  Golfo married a Pappas from Columbus and died there in childbirth in 1929.  The baby died also.  My mother, Frosine visited
her in Columbus thatyear.  I think Panagiotis lived with her and died from the Flu prior to my Mother coming to America.  Grandfather returned to Greece without Golfo and Panagiotis in 1921 or 1922, I'm not sure.

Grandfather had many children with his 2nd wife Eleni Karteroulis. Evangelis died in his youth, Vasilis, born in 1905, died while in the Greek Army.  My mother was born in 1908, Panagiotis in 1910 died in the US, Kosta in 1912 died in the 1950's from TB. He was a theologian and
never married.  Iphigenia died in infancy.  Anastasia was born in 1918. She married late in life to Spiros Pantazos and died in a Nursing home in Sparta several years back.  She sold the family home prior to passing. We visited Thea Tasia often during her lifetime. 

The records in Sparta and now in Mistra are all messed up. They didn't show my mother as Michael's daughter nor did they show he was married twice.  We, just this summer, corrected that.  We sent Mistra a copy of my mother's Greek marriage certificate that lists her as a
daughter of Michael Aridas.
 
By the way, I attended American University in my freshman year in 1948-1949 and watched Truman's inauguration that year.  I had an aunt Tasia Chaconas whose maiden name was Vouyaglis, I believe, from Agios Ioannis that I visited when in Washington.
 
If you have any further questions, please feel free to e-mail me.
George N. Revelos
PS   My father was from Kosma and Vrondama and the name in Greece is Rempelos.

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Mihael Aridas is named as Mihael MIHALAKAKOS in the marriage record of his daughter, Golfo, to Georges A. Messarhakis; Elen Liakakon is named as Golfo's mother. (Digital image in Golfo Aridas/Mihalakakos file; transcript in Golfo's marriage field).

Birth	1867	Agios Ioannis, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
Male Register	1867	Agios Ioannis, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
Marriage	31 Oct 1892	Agios Ioannis, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece - Eleni Dimitriou Liakakos
Marriage	7 Nov 1903	Sparta, Lakonia, Greece - Eleni V. Karteroulis
Occupation	1921	Laborer - United States
Immigration	30 Mar 1921	New York City, New York, United States
Town Register	1955	Agios Ioannis, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
Death	24 Mar 1959	Agios Ioannis, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
Alt name		Michalakakos
Alt name		Αριδάς / Μιχαλακάκος
FamilySearch ID		L8WC-TGB
Male Register		Agios Ioannis, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece
MRIN-Marriage ID		390

Spouse	Eleni Dimitriou Liakakos (1866 - 1959)
Child	Aikaterini Aridas Michalakakos (1897 - 1990)
Child	Gkolfo Aridas Michalakakos (1900 - )
Child	Christos Michail Aridas (1900 - 1917)

Spouse	Eleni V. Karteroulis (1878 - 1959)
Child	Evangelos Michail Aridas (1903 - 1912)
Child	Vasileios Michail Aridas (1905 - 1929)
Child	Effrosyni M. Aridas (1908 - 2009)
Child	Panagiotis Michail Aridas (1910 - 1928)
Child	Konstantinos Michail Aridas or Michalakakos (1912 - 1958)
Child	Ifigenia M. Aridas (1914 - 1914)
Child	Anastasia Aridas Michalakakos (1918 - 2000)

Father	Christos Michail Aridas (1840 - )
Mother	Gkolfo (1847 - )
Sibling	Marigo C. Michalakakos (1863 - )
Sibling	Alexis Christos Aridas (1869 - )
Sibling	Konstantinos Christos Aridas (1875 - )
Sibling	Anastasoula C. Aridas Michalakakos (1879 - )

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