Individual Details
Panagiotis Ioannis Papagiannakos
(1871 - )
From Peter Konstantinos Pappas to Carol Petranek phone conversation, June 2016: There was a Panagiotis Papagiannakos from Magoula [was he born in Magoula or Ag. Ioannis??]. He had 2 sons: Ioannis and Dimosthenes. Ioannis had a luxury restaurant in Sparta. He had 2 sons: Panagiotis who lives in Toronto, Canada and Vasilis who is a cvil engineer living in Sparta and is still there (2016). He is very highly educated and works for the government.
Dimosthenes had two sons: Nikos who owns the movie theater in Sparta; and Panagiotis who lives in Athens; and his son is Tasos who lives in Germany.
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In July 2014, Carol Petranek and Gregory Kontos met Eugenia Papagiannakos Kyriakoulias who lives across the street from Peggy & Ioanna Kostakos in Agios Ioannis. Eugenia said that Panagiotis (married to Polyxeni Kavalari) had a brother, Nikolaos, and that Nikolaos married a Georgia Zeis from Africa. Nikolaos & Georgia had Aristedes born 1901; he is Eugenia's father. [NOTE: This Georgia Zeis is not correct; it is Georgia Piperis per Father Eugene Pappas]. Panagiotis and Nikolaos had more brothers, but she does not know how many. The surname originally was Giannakos. Papaioannou was a different family - this name is found in the Dimotologion and Mitroon Arrenon.
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Name from Anastasios (Tasos) Papagiannakos, email to Carol Petranek, November 27, 2011.
"My great-grandfather (Panagiotis Papagiannakos) is the brother of James Pappas' father Nikolaos . I still don't know who their father was."
Name from Anastasios (Tasos) Papagiannakos, email to Carol Petranek, November 27, 2011.
"My father is Nikon Papagiannakos (born 1938); my grandfather was Dimosthenis Papagiannakos (born 1908) and my grandmother was Hariklia Kamposouli (born 1908) from the village of Anavriti. These three together with my father's brother, Panagiotis Papagiannakos, immigrated in USA at 1956 (I found out this information 3 months ago searching at ancestry.com – I attach the file). They lived and worked in Brooklyn NY and then in Stamford, Connecticut, where they established Pappa’s Pizza (1960), which was later sold to Filimon Sgouris and still exists http://www.originalpappaspizza.com/home.html#aboutss. The family returned back to Sparta in 1969, where they built the biggest cinema of the city, Cine Anesis.
My father got married in Sparta (1974) and returned in New York together with my mother, where they lived for three years. My brother Dimitrios was born in New York (1975) and when my parents realized that my mother was pregnant to me, they decided to return to Sparta forever (1977). During that period (1975-77) my father visited one of his uncles who was living in Brooklyn (James Pappas). Searching in your site I found out that person http://www.onefamilycircle.com/getperson.php?personID=I332&tree=PK. James Pappas was excited with the fact that my brother had the same name with him (our US passports have the Pappas surname, although our Greek passports write Papagiannakos). Trying to find the connection with his family I discovered that my great-grandfather (Panagiotis Papagiannakos) is the brother of James Pappas’s father Nikolaos http://www.onefamilycircle.com/getperson.php?personID=I283&tree=PK. I still don’t know who their father was. If you have that information, please share it with me."
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Dimosthenes had two sons: Nikos who owns the movie theater in Sparta; and Panagiotis who lives in Athens; and his son is Tasos who lives in Germany.
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In July 2014, Carol Petranek and Gregory Kontos met Eugenia Papagiannakos Kyriakoulias who lives across the street from Peggy & Ioanna Kostakos in Agios Ioannis. Eugenia said that Panagiotis (married to Polyxeni Kavalari) had a brother, Nikolaos, and that Nikolaos married a Georgia Zeis from Africa. Nikolaos & Georgia had Aristedes born 1901; he is Eugenia's father. [NOTE: This Georgia Zeis is not correct; it is Georgia Piperis per Father Eugene Pappas]. Panagiotis and Nikolaos had more brothers, but she does not know how many. The surname originally was Giannakos. Papaioannou was a different family - this name is found in the Dimotologion and Mitroon Arrenon.
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Name from Anastasios (Tasos) Papagiannakos, email to Carol Petranek, November 27, 2011.
"My great-grandfather (Panagiotis Papagiannakos) is the brother of James Pappas' father Nikolaos . I still don't know who their father was."
Name from Anastasios (Tasos) Papagiannakos, email to Carol Petranek, November 27, 2011.
"My father is Nikon Papagiannakos (born 1938); my grandfather was Dimosthenis Papagiannakos (born 1908) and my grandmother was Hariklia Kamposouli (born 1908) from the village of Anavriti. These three together with my father's brother, Panagiotis Papagiannakos, immigrated in USA at 1956 (I found out this information 3 months ago searching at ancestry.com – I attach the file). They lived and worked in Brooklyn NY and then in Stamford, Connecticut, where they established Pappa’s Pizza (1960), which was later sold to Filimon Sgouris and still exists http://www.originalpappaspizza.com/home.html#aboutss. The family returned back to Sparta in 1969, where they built the biggest cinema of the city, Cine Anesis.
My father got married in Sparta (1974) and returned in New York together with my mother, where they lived for three years. My brother Dimitrios was born in New York (1975) and when my parents realized that my mother was pregnant to me, they decided to return to Sparta forever (1977). During that period (1975-77) my father visited one of his uncles who was living in Brooklyn (James Pappas). Searching in your site I found out that person http://www.onefamilycircle.com/getperson.php?personID=I332&tree=PK. James Pappas was excited with the fact that my brother had the same name with him (our US passports have the Pappas surname, although our Greek passports write Papagiannakos). Trying to find the connection with his family I discovered that my great-grandfather (Panagiotis Papagiannakos) is the brother of James Pappas’s father Nikolaos http://www.onefamilycircle.com/getperson.php?personID=I283&tree=PK. I still don’t know who their father was. If you have that information, please share it with me."
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Events
Families
| Spouse | Polyxeni D. Kavvelaris (1878 - 1951) |
| Child | Marigo P. Papagiannakos ( - ) |
| Child | Aikaterina or Ecaterina P. Papagiannakos (1902 - ) |
| Child | Panagiota Papagiannakos (1906 - 1999) |
| Child | Ioannis Panagiotis Papagiannakos (1906 - 1994) |
| Child | Dimosthenis Panagiotis Papagiannakos (1910 - 2005) |
| Father | Ioannis Papagiannakos (1842 - ) |
| Mother | Giannoula (1847 - ) |
| Sibling | Ilias Ioannis Papagiannakos ( - ) |
| Sibling | Nikolaos Ioannis Papagiannakos (1867 - 1933) |
| Sibling | Christos Ioannis Papagiannakos (1869 - 1924) |
| Sibling | Aggelo I. Papagiannakos (1882 - ) |
Notes
Birth
Birth year calculated from 1898 marriage record; he was age 27Marriage
Metropolis of Sparta, Marriage IndexBook: Sparta,1894-1899; Page: 138, Year: 1898, Entries: 78-90
Entry #87
License Date: February 5, 1898
Marriage Date: not given
Groom: Panagiotis Papagiannakos; no father listed; village: Agios Ioannis
Bride: Polyxeni Kavvelaris; father: Dimosthenis; village: Sparta
Church Name: not given
First marriage for both bride and groom
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Photographed at the Metropolis of Sparta in Sparta, Greece by Carol Kostakos Petranek, July 2017
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Sparta Marriages 1835-1935
Marriage: Sparta, Greece (Σπάρτα, Ελλάδα)
Groom Name: Παναγιώτης Παπαγιαννάκος (Panagiotis Papagiannakos), age 27
Birth: Αγ Ιωάννης(Ag Ioannis)
Father: Παπαγιαννάκος ( Papagiannakos)
Bride Name:Πολυξένη Καββελάρη (Polyxeni Kavvelari), age 20
Birth: Σπάρτη(Sparti)
Father: Δημοσθένης Καββελάρη (Dimosthenis Kavvelari)
Ordinal Number: 87
Marriage License Date: Feb 5 1898
Source: Metropolis of Sparta; accessed from MyHeritage on April 6, 2022
Parish Voter Lists
Parish Voter ListsVillage: Magoula, Lakonia, Greece
Year: 1927
Name: Panagiotis Papagiannakos
Father’s Name: not given
Age: 60
Serial Number: 181
Record ID: MS30081
Image ID: MS0838
Record Type: Parish Voter Lists
Source: Metropolis of Sparta and Monemvasia, Licenses Folder,accessed from GreekAncestry.net on August 15, 2020
Residence
Tasos Papagiannakos has the family living in Magoula.Endnotes
1. Metropolis of Sparta, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece.
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- Mitropolis of Sparta, Marriage Index Book: Sparta,1894-1899; Page: 138, Year: 1898, Entries: 78-90
- Mitropolis of Sparta, Marriage Index Book: Sparta,1894-1899; Page: 138, Year: 1898, Entries: 78-90
3. Metropolis of Sparta, Sparta, Lakonia, Greece.

