Individual Details
Dimitra Makris
(Bef 1885 - Abt 1936)
Events
| Birth | Bef 1885 | Of Amykles, Lakonia, Greece | |||
| Immigration | 1906 |  | |||
| Death | Abt 1936 | Of Amykles, Lakonia, Greece | | ||
| FamilySearch ID | GCGF-9N7 |
Families
| Spouse | Nikolaos Demas (1880 - 1939) |
| Child | Georgia N. Demas (1905 - 2000) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Stavroula N. Demas ( - 1907) |
| Child | George Nicholas Demas (1909 - ) |
Notes
Immigration
Written by Anastasia L. Topping and posted on FindAGrave:The immigration history of Georgia's family is difficult to trace, at best. Her father, Nikolaos Georgios Demas (also found as Dimas, Dimos, Dames, and other variations), initially, it appears, came to the United States around the turn of the centuryby himself. On (what appears to be either his third or fourth trip from Greece to the United States) August 27, 1905, he and his eldest daughter, Vasiliki (who later adopted the given name of Sylvia), arrived at the port of New York. Nikolaos is reported to have gone back to Greece sometime in 1912 as is Vasiliki.
On November 7, 1906, the mother of Georgia -- Demera (aka Demetroula) Makris Demas, is shown, via the S.S. LaBretagne, arriving at the port of Ne York with Vasiliki and also her younger daughter, Georgia. While it is possible that Vasiliki went back to Greece between 1905 and 1906, it is HIGHLY unlikely and more likely that Demetra gave the names of both of her children for some reason.
Only Nikolaos, Georgia's father, and her uncle Peter Demas, were found to be living in Steubenville, Ohio during the taking of the 1910 Census. It would appear that the rest of the family had moved back to Greece by that time.
Nikolaos, with his daughter Vasiliki, arrived for a second time at the port of New York on September 7, 1915. Demetra and her two other children--Georgios and Georgia--arrived on October 5, 1920 at New York via the S.S. Megali Hellas.
It is unclear to me, at this point, as to whether the mother and father of Georgia Demas Karangelen (and her siblings) stayed in the United States or moved back to Greece permanently. The last account of either being mentioned in a written document appears to be their son's, Georgios' wedding to Helen M. Kappas in a 1933 newspaper article (Cincinnati, Ohio), which only mentions Georgios' father and not his mother. It would have been highly irregular for a parent to not have been included in that type of article had she/he been alive at the time of the announcement.
Genealogical Compilation & Comments by
Anastasia L. Topping (Αναστασια Λ. Ποπιτζη)
22nd of December, 2020, 6:26 p.m.