Individual Details

Birth

Mitroon Arrenon - Male Register
General State Archives of Greece, Sparta Office
Village: Agios Ioannis
Year - Line # - Surname - First Name - Father's Name - Death.
1864 - 3 - Gavakos - Panagiotis - Ioannis

Birth year estimated from passenger ship manifest - age 35 in 1899

Male Register

Mitroon Arrenon - Male Register
General State Archives of Greece, Sparta Office
Village: Agios Ioannis
Year - Line # - Surname - First Name - Father's Name - Death.
1864 - 3 - Gavakos - Panagiotis - Ioannis

Alternate Birth

Listed in newspaper as enrolling in military service in 1886.
ΠΑΡΑΡΤΗΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΦΗΜΕΡΙΔΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΕΩΝ (Newspaper of the Government)
Νομος Λακονιας (Prefecture Lakonia)
Επαρχια Λακεδαιμονος (Province)
Διμος Σπαρτης (Municipality of Sparta)
Year: 1886; Issue: 371; Number: 77026; Line # 23
Name: Gavakos, Ioannou Panagiotis [Ioannis is his father's name]

A man enlisted in the military at age 18.
Birth age calculation: 1886 minus 18 = birth year of 1868

Marriage

Metropolis of Sparta, Marriage Index
Book: Sparta,1889-Jan. 1894; Year: 1892, Entries: 70-79
Entry #78
License Date: April 18, 1892
Marriage Date: not given
Groom: Panagiotis Gavakos; father: Ioannis; village: Agios Ioannis
Bride: Aikaterini Kakri; father: Konstandinos; village: Magoula
Church Name: not given
Book is curled and cannot read which marriage this is for groom; first marriage for bride

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

Marriage

Metropolis of Sparta, Marriage Index
Book: Sparta,1889-Jan. 1894; Year: 1893 , Entries: 348-375
Entry #368
License Date: November 13, 1893
Marriage Date: not given
Groom: Panagiotis Gavakos; no father listed; village: Agios Ioannis
Bride: Theoni Maniatakou; no father listed; village: Parori
Church Name: not given
Third marriage for groom, first marriage for bride

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

Immigration

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Roll T715, 1897-1975; Roll 0057; image 491 of 530
S.S. “La Gascogne” sailing from Havre, April 15, 1899; arriving at port of New York, April 23, 1899; sheet number 325; List No. I.,image 491 (S.S. LaGascogne starts on image 403 and goes to 530; Greek passengers start on page 409)
 
ON THIS SHIP:  Traveled together, on same manifest,  possible extended family members: Panagiotis Gavakos, Yoanis Kostakos (my grandfather);Politois Kanakacos; Calliopi Kanakacos; Jean Panagakos; Alicios Panagakos;Panagota Heliopoulo
 
 
Line 1.  Panagotis Gavakos, age 38, male, married; labour; can read and write, nationality: Greek;last residence: Piree; seaport for landing: New York; final destination: NewYork; has ticket to final destination; paid for passage himself; has $10; wasin US 10 years from 87-97; going to join his nephew.
Supplement to Manifest, sheet 326:  color: white, Nativity: country: Greek;province: Greece; mother tongue: Greek; subject of what country: Greek; religion:Greek Orthodox

Death

Civil Register of Death
Registry Office of Magoula, Sparta, Lakonia, July 2019
Book Β, Agios Ioannis Deaths
Page 75; Number: 19
Name of Deceased: Pan. I. Gavakos

In Agios Ioannis, today, Saturday, July 11, 1942 at 2:00 p.m. in the Registrar's office for Agios Ioannis appeared before me, Ioannis Katsikopoulos, Registrar of town of Agios Ioannis of Dimos Sparta of Eparhias Lakedaimonos, Ioannis Stavropoulos, age 36, shoemaker, resident of Agios Ioannis, and announced that in Agios Ioannis on Friday, April 10, 1942 at 10:00 p.m., died Panagiotis I. Gavakos, resident of Agios Ioannis, born in Agios Ioannis, age 78, farmer, Christian Orthodox, Greek citizen, written in the Mitroon Arrenon of Agios Ioannis, son of Ioannis Gavakos, farmer, resident of Agios Ioannis and of Stamatiki; and is the spouse of Theoni of Kyriakakos.
The death was certified by Doctor Nikolaos Seremetakis ; cause of death: __
Joint and present, we have read and verified this statement of the declarant, Ioannis Stavropoulos.
Signature of declarant
Signature of registrar
[record extracted and digital photo by Carol Kostakos Petranek, July 2019]