Individual Details

Birth

Birth year from Agios Ioannis town Register Family #369
Information from Joanna Lynard Burstein gives birthplace as Magoula.
The Town Register of Agios Ioannis gives birthplace as Agios Ioannis. However, the Papastrantos surname is not found in the Agios Ioannis Town Register or Male Register.

Woodlawn Cemetery book gives birthplace as Magoula.

Marriage

Metropolis of Sparta, Marriage Index
Book: Sparta,1894-1899; Page: 33 , Year: 1894, Entries: 415-427
Entry #423
License Date: November 12, 1894
Marriage Date: not given
Groom: Panagiotis G. Gavakos; father: G., village: Agios Ioannis
Bride: Panagiota Papasarantos; father: Theod., village: Magoula
Church Name: not given
First marriage for both bride and groom

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Photographed at the Metropolis of Sparta in Sparta, Lakonia, Greece by Carol Kostakos Petranek, July 2017

Immigration

"New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924
List 19
S.S. King Alexander
Sailing from Piraeus April 15, 1921, arrival Ellis Island May 2, 1921
Line 6: Gavacou, Panagiota; age 45, female, married; housewife; cannot read or write, nationality: Greek; race: Greek; last permanent residence: St. Ioannis, Greece; name and address of nearest relative/friend in country from whence came: none given; final destination: Baltimore, MD; paid for passage by self; has $350; has not been in US previously; going to: husband, Peter Kavacos, 511-513 W. Sarato St., Baltimore; does not intend to return to home country; will remain in US durably; good health; 5'4", brown hair and eyes, no identifying marks; born in St. Ioannis, Greece

Line 7: Gavacou, Stavroula; age 25, female, single, housewife, can read and write Greek, ationality: Greek; race: Greek; last permanent residence: St. Ioannis, Greece; name and address of nearest relative/friend in country from whence came: none given; final destination: Baltimore, MD; paid for passage by self; has $150; has not been in US previously; going to: same as above; oes not intend to return to home country; will remain in US durably; good health; 5'6", brown hair and eyes, no identifying marks; born in St. Ioannis, Greece

Line 8: Gavacou, Frossini; age 23, female, single, housewife, can read and write Greek, ationality: Greek; race: Greek; last permanent residence: St. Ioannis, Greece; name and address of nearest relative/friend in country from whence came: none given; final destination: Baltimore, MD; paid for passage by self; has not been in US previously; going to: same as above; oes not intend to return to home country; will remain in US durably; good health; 5'6", brown hair and eyes, no identifying marks; born in St. Ioannis, Greece

Note: admi. to husb. & father

Source: "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J6JS-738 : 2 March 2021), Stavroula Gavacou, 1921.

Source: "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J6JS-738 : 2 March 2021), Stavroula Gavacou, 1921.
Affiliate Film Number: T715-2960
Digital Folder Number: 007658668
Microfilm Number: 1754698
Image Number: 00304
Indexing Batch: P00017-7
Affiliate Film Number: 2960

Burial

Woodlawn Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
Gavakos, Panayiota, age 63
Name as shown onInterment record: Gavacous, Bertia
Section: New Greek Plot
Row G, Grave 48
Date of Interment: 30 Jun 31939, from Magoula, Sparta

Burial

Woodlawn Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
Gavakos, Panayiota, age 63
Name as shown onInterment record: Gavacous, Bertia
Section: New Greek Plot
Row G, Grave 48
Date of Interment: 30 Jun 31939, from Magoula, Sparta

Town Register

Town Register - Dimotologion
Agios Ioannis, Sparta, Laconia, Greece
General Archives of Greece, Sparta Office
Date of Registration: March 22, 1959

Family #369
Gavakos, Panagiotis; father: Vasileios; born 1871 in Agios Ioannis; permanent residence: Agios Ioannis; Greek Orthodox, Greek citizen by birth; citizen of this municipality by birth; registered in the Male Register of Agios Ioannis 2/1871; removed from record March 22, 1959 due to death; entry #5 in the year 1959

Gavakos, Panagiota; father: Theodoros Papastrantos; born 1875 in Agios Ioannis; permanent residence: Agios Ioannis; Greek Orthodox, Greek citizen by birth; citizen of this municipality by birth; removed from record March 22, 1959 due to death; entry #5 in the year 1959

Gavakos, Stavroula; father: Panagiotis; mother: Panagiota; born 9 September 1895 in Agios Ioannis; permanent residence: America; Greek Orthodox, Greek citizen by birth; citizen of this municipality by birth

Gavakos, Christina; father: Panagiotis; mother: Panagiota; born 28 May 1897 in Agios Ioannis; permanent residence: America; Greek Orthodox, Greek citizen by birth; citizen of this municipality by birth

Alt name

Spelling of name on Woodlawn Cemetery interment records: Gavacous, Bertia