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	GENEOLOGY OF DRAKOS AND PAPOULIS FAMILIES

DRAKOS SIDE

Maria "Billikas" Born in 1848 (changed her last name to Billikas which was her step father's last name after her father O Vasillis tou Thodori. Her mother re-married “Billikas” and had a boy with him whom they also called “Billikas” who was killed by lightning working at the wheatmill)

Her nickname was "Kalima"  which means good mother and a term that was used for grandmother. She died in 1953 when she was 105 years old. Kalima never met her parents and was raised by her grandmother and step-father Billikas.

She married when she was 12 years old to Kostandinos Drakos.

The common ancestor that the Drakos’ from Parparia have is Ioannis Drakos, Dimitrios Drakos and Vasilios Drakos. They were the parents of Konstandinos (1853), Mihail (1870) and Ioannis (1873). We do not know if they were first or second cousins. We do not know if any of their relatives escaped from Chios during the holocaust. We do not even know (for now) if the name Drakos existed in Parparia before the holocaust.

Zolotas wrote that after the Holocaust, the town of Parparia had to be abandoned. The survivors had to go to Volissos and after a few years returned with people from Volissos to re-start the town. According to one source, in 1827, there were about 30 or so people in Parparia.

At first I thought that Konstandinos Drakos (1853) had brothers. However Mihail Drakos (1870) and Ioannis Drakos (1873) all named their first sons differently.

Konstaninos Drakos (1853) named his first son after his father Ioannis (1882)

Mihail Drakos (1870) named his first son Dimitrios (1895) after his father.

Ioannis Drakos (1873) did not register any sons and his father was Vasilios.

Konstandinos

Ioannis

Konstandinos (1853)

A) Papa Kostandinos tou Ioannou Drakos (born 1853 and died 1936 tou Agiou Andrea in Parparia. Was the son of Ioannis Drakos)- Presbitera Maria Billikas gave birth to 13 children only of which 6 survived.

The children between Kostandinos Drakos and Maria Billikas were:

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1) Papa Ioannis Drakos (born 1882 in Parparia) married Sofia Tsimis and they had 3 children who were:

a) Maria Drakos (born 1907- died 1967) who married Giorgis Heilas "Psomas" (born 1906- died 1996). Their children were:

1) Mihali who died when he was about 9 years old.

2) Paraskevi married Dimitri and had three children named Giorgo, Maria and Paminonta. I remember Paminonta when he came to work in Astoria.

3) Sofia married Petro Malafi and had two children Maria and Paraskevi. Maria married Nikos Goulas and had two daughters named Voula and Sofia . Paraskevi married Christos Stavropoulos and had 3 children, Themistocles, Petros and Marianna

4) Dimitri “Psomas” married Eleni Katsigiorgis and had two children named Maria and Giorgos “Psomas”

5) Gianni who died

6) Cleo married Stathi Krimintzis from Vrontado and had two children Thodori and Polikseni.

7) Anna (born 1942) who married Ioannis Hadjioannou from Athens and had three children named Giorgis, Stelios and Garifalitsa. Garifalitsa has a son Diamantis Eliana and Giannakis

8) Eleni married Giannis Thermenos and had two children named Kostas and Mixalis.

b) Manolis Drakos (born 1911) who married Niki from Chora. Their children were Gianni, Stavro and Cleopatra.

c) Kostandinos Drakos –born 1923- (who was born a twin-the other twin died) married Sofia Argenti and their children were:

1) Maria Drako

2) Giannis

3) Spiros

4) Nicolas

They also had a little girl named Cleo that died when she was 3 years old from eating dirt.

2) Papa Vasilis Drakos (born 1888 in Parparia) married Argyro Tsimis and their children were:

a) Papa Stelianos Drakos married Anna Louros who had a son Basilis Drakos.

b) Kostas Drakos married Maria Drakos and they had a son and daughter named Kostas and Vangelio.

c) Irene Drakos married Stelios Malafis and they had two boys Kostas and Gianni.

d) Ioanna Drakos married Nikolis Galanios "Nikolelos" and they had 3 children named Basilis, Maria and Argyro.

e) Angelos Drakos married Stella Parikos and they had no children.

f) Mihalis Drakos married Despina Galanios  and had 3 daughters named

Argyro , Maria and Dimitra .

3) Steliani Drakos (Galianos) married Giannis Galianos and they had 6 children. Steliani got married at the age of 16 and Giannis was 13 years old. Giannis was an only child and got married to Steliani because she had a lot of fields or Xorafia. On the day of the wedding Giannis Galionos was so scared that he ran up a tree to try to hide. Since Giannis Galanios was an orphan, Kalima gave him away at the alter. Their children were:

Kalliope Mihalis Eleftheria Anna Kosta Nikolas

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a) Kalliope Sr. married Dimitris Psilis and they had one child named 1- Athena.

Athena married Kosta Papoulis (O Klossos) and had two daughters named Kalliopi aka Popi (Klossena) and Ioanna.

Kalliopi married George Anastass (Greek from Egypt) and they have two boys and live in Long Island.

Ioanna married John Psillis (Tralalas) and they have two daughters and live in Long Island.

Kalliope Sr. later re-married Ioannis Heilas (Bobos) and they had two sons 2-Giorgi and 3-Nikoli. (Nikoli is a television reporter for the Greek Channel ERT). Giorgi is a ship mechanic.

(Kalliope Sr. in her old age became blind and was confined to a wheelchair. She lived in NJ. I remember driving my mother to visit her).

b) Mihalis married Demestini Linaris and they had 6 children. Gianni, Stella, Irakli, Eugenia, Antonis, and Kalliope.

1- Gianni had 3 daughters who were Despina, Eugenia and Stella.

a- Despina married John Tsoukalas and they have two children Markella and Irini.

b- Eugenia married Gianni Galianos (different Galianos family) and have 3 children Giorgo, Maria and Mihali.

c- Stella married Mihalis Potamousis and have 3 children, Evangelia, Iraklis and Ioanna .

2- Stella married John Tsimis and they have two children

a- Michael who married Donna Pollicastro and have two children Stephanie and John.

b- Denise married Brian Colleran and they have three children Jack, Julia and Kattie.

3- Irakli had

a- Despina who married Gianni Tzifas and had three children Vasia, Harri and Ioanna.

b- Michael married Theoni Panakos and had two children Yanna and Irakli.

4- Eugenia married Georgo Lambrianidis and they have two children

a-Gianni who married Vasiliki and they have two children Georgo and Eugenia.

b- Michael who married Maria and they have two children Georgo and Christo.

5- Antonis had two children

a- Michael and b- Despina

6- Kalliopi married Niko Louros (Mantzounis) and had two children.

a- Irini who has a daughter named Marina.

b- Vasili who married Krisi Tsimis and they have two children.

c) Leftheria married Georgos Maroulis and had two children Mihalis and Argiris (Jerry) – Leftheria also lived in NJ, I drove my mother there one time to visit her as well.

d) Anna married Dimitrios Katsigiorgis (born 1907)

and they had 3 children. Markella, Irini and Ipatia.

e) Kosta married Eleni Galianos (from another Galiano family) and had one son Gianni. Kosta later re-married with Despina Louros and they had two children Maria and Stella.

f) Nicolas married Therese Cartier from Canadá and they had 3 children named John, Nancy and Steve. Nicolis was in the Greek merchant marine during WWII. He was believed to have been killed when the ship he was on was torpedoed by Germans. After the war, the family found out that he had jumped ship in Canada and that he was still alive.

4) Kalliope (Louros)

Kallioppe married Mihalis Louros and they had three children who were:

a) Stelio (Was born in Parparia and became a U.S. Pilot in WW II. His plane was shot down and his body was never recovered).

b) Gianni

c) Kostas had two boys named Michael and Perry who lived in Long Island.

5) Stamatini (Papoulis) born 1897

Georgios Papoulis "Mouzouris" married Stamatini Drakos

and they had six children:

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The first child was

A) Michalis Papoulis born Sept. 1918 in Parparia.

Michalis Papoulis married Maria Tsimis and they had two children:

1) Georgios Papoulis married Markella and they had 3 children Maria, Mike and Sofia- who live in Astoria, NY.

2) Stratou (in photo with her parents when she was small) now lives in Crete married “Kritiko” and they have one daughter.

B) Maria (Katsigiorgis) born Dec. 1921 in Parparia.

Maria married Giannis Katsigiorgis "Psarianos" (born 1913) His brother Dimitrios married Anna Drakos (see above) and they had three children:

Markellos Katsigiorgis married Maria Frangoulopoulos (Frangos) and they had two children John and Katerina.

Anna (Tsimis) married John Tsimis (Misocartos) and they had two children Kathy and George who live in Astoria, NY.

Michalis Katsigiorgis married Lemonia and they had two children Mike and Maria who live in New Jersey.

C) Evangelia "Vangelio" (Potamousis) born 1925 in Parparia

Vangelio married Giorgios Potamousis "O Vilas" they did not have any children.

D) Giannis Papoulis After arriving to the US with his brother Thodoro, he started working as a mechanic. I remember him saying that you could give him any car in pieces and he could assemble it blindfolded.

Giannis married Afroula and they had one child

1-Stamatia married Mr. Pagiazitis from the town of Amades in Chios and they had 3 children, Evangelia , Elias and Yianni.

E) Theodoros Papoulis (born 03-28-1930 in Parparia and died 09-20-2004) After arriving in New York, he started his own hotdog carriage stand business. He helped many Parparousi who would first arrive to the US to get jobs working for him. His was active in the Parparia Society in the US for many years. He was infamous for his dancing especially Zebekiko.

Theodoros Papoulis married Anna Maravegia from Kefalonia and they had two children

1-George (1960) married Phyllis Casiorizzo and they had one daughter Joanna.

2- Andy (1963) married Kali Lipsanos and they had 3 children Teddy, Anna Irene and Christina Despina

F) Anna (Stefanidis) born April 1933 in Parparia and died June 2003

Anna (Stefanidis) married Dimitrios Stefanidis and they had two children: Anna got a job as a maid on a ship Captains house in Athens. She got her brothers Gianni and Thodoro jobs on the ship of the Captain, which helped them reach New York in the early 1960’s. After, her brothers got permanent status, they then returned her the favor and brought her to the US. Anna worked in the garment district as a sewer of fur coats in NYC for over 20 years with her sister Vangelio. The fingers in her hands had become disfigured from so much sewing.

1-Stavros married twice and had four children Anthony (with first wife Angela Nagikyan) and Dimitri, Anna and Evangelos (with second wife Janice Rodriguez)

2- Maria married Christo Savva (from Cyprus) and they had three children Anna, Paulina and Paul

6) Sofia Drakos (Born Nov 21, 1902 in Parparia). Sofia was a twin. Her other twin died at birth.

Sofia married Mihalis Psilis (born 1887 in Parparia) , nicknamed  "Kosin"  because he played cards.

Their children were:

a) Maria Tsantilas (born Jan. 1921 in Parparia) had two children Andreas and Despina .

Andreas married Loraine Lapierre and had two boys born in Canada named

Mihalis and Giannis

Despina married Fotis Tsamis and they had one boy named Mihalis .

b) Angeliko (Papadia) (born Nov. 1925) She married Papa Giannis Lillikas. She had two boys named Giorgis and Mixali. Giorgi married Anna Papoulis and they had two children Marina and Gianni. Mixali married Eleni Tsourougianno and had 2 children Angeliki and Gianni. She also had a daughter named Marma who had two girls named Angeliki and Maria.

c) Kostas (born 1924) (killed during WWII on nearby island Karpathos). In Karpathos they have a memorial shrine dedicated to him for his heroism during the battle that cost him his life against the Germans.

d) Andreas (born Nov. 1926). He had two kids Mihalis and Gianni.

e) Giannis (born Jan 1928)

f)  Basilis (born Nov. 1936)

Basilis married Stella Papoulis and had two sons named Mihalis and Nicolas

g) Giorgis born 1939 in Parparia.

Giorgis married Maria Papoulis and had two daughters Sofia and Eugenia who live in Parparia.

B) Dimitri Drakos had 3 sons named 1) Mihalis (1870)

2) Steliano (1880) and

3) Ioanni (1884).

1) Mihali Drakos (born 1870) married Maria Louros and they had 7 children.

a) Dimitri (born 1895) Dimitri (died in Macedonia in 1914)

b) Irini (born in 1896). She married Dimitris Koukounis (also born in 1896) and had 3 children Despina (born 1928-See also Papoulis section) Stella (born 1916) who married Gianni Potamousis (an only son) and Basili (born in 1918) who married Despina Potamousis (Her father was Papa Mihalis Potamousis). Dimitri Koukounis’ parents were Giorgios Koukounis (only son) and Despina Kayanta. Giorgios Koukounis’ father was Dimitri, since he named his son DImitri.

c) Nicolis (born 1899)

d) Stamatis (born 1901)

Stamatis Drakos was killed in the town of Kourounia when he and his brother Nicolis went to kidnap a female sheep herder girl that Stamatis had fell in love with. She had dared him to come take her from Kourounia. Stamatis took his brother Nicolas and they set off for Kourounia. When they got to Kourounia, however, they were discovered and chased out of town and hunted down. Supposedly. Nicolis hid in the grass, but Stamatis hid in a tree. When the townfolks from Kourounia saw his feet hanging from the tree, they shot him dead.

e) Christoforos (died as a baby)

f) Elias (died as a baby)

g) Elias (born 1907) He married Irini Tsourougiannos and they had the following children

1) Dimitra Dimitra married Dimitrios Tsimis and had two children a) b)

2)Stelio.Stelio married Dimitra Amargou and had 2 children Maria and Elia . Maria married Nasso and they have the coffee shop down in Zanakounda now and have three children .

3) Paraskevi 4) Mihali 5) Nicos

h) Modesto (born 1911)

i) Gianni

2) Steliano (1880) married Eugenia

3) Ioannis (Karagiannis) –born 1884 married Stratou Koukounis and had a girl named Maria. Maria married Gianni Tsoukala and they had 3 children Dimitri, Kosta and Paraskevi. Kosta married Kalliope Benetos (pizza).

C) Basilis Drakos married a girl from Trypes and had one son named Ioannis (1873).

Basilis was also killed. Basilis was killed by a Katsigiorgis. One day out near Pagousenna (Selada), one of the cousins or sisters of the Drakos brothers was milking a cow in the fields. An unknown Katsigiorgi, went and tried to have sex with her. When she resisted, she fled and told her brothers or cousins. They in turn found and beat Katsigiorgi, so bad, that he only escaped by playing dead. When he saw that the Drakos brothers left, he got up and went to Volissos where he got Turkish officers (Atzades) to help him to try to catch the Drakos’ that beat him up. A few days later in Zanakounda Basilis Drakos was with his family (alonizane). Basilis saw Katsigiorgis and the Officers coming from far away and tried to escape. They chased him to the sea where Basili then tried to swim to a nearby boat that was passing by. Katsigiorgis and the officers were now by the shore and yelled at the boat not to take him. The officers then started shooting at Basilis in the water. Basils started to dive under the water and to come up only for air. The officers kept missing and were about to give up when, Katsigiorgis took one of the guns from the officers, aimed and shot at Basilis killing him with one shot in the back of the head. Basilis’ son Ioannis married Anna Kayanta and had 3 daughters named Sofia, Maria and Areti. Sofia Drakos married Giorgis Lilikas tou Petrou (born 1890) and had three sons Papa Giannis Lillikas (born 1920), Petros and Basilis.

PAPOULIS SIDE

Mihalis Papoulis had at least two boys named A) Theodoros and B) Ioannis. The 2 brothers were probably born in the 1830’s. Mihalis Papoulis was probably a 1822 Chios holocaust survivor and was a young boy when it happened. He is the common ancestor of all the Papoulis families of Parparia today. We do not know if any of his relatives escaped from Chios or if they were all killed. We do not even know (for now) if the name Papoulis existed in Parparia before the holocaust.

There is another Papoulis named Konstandino who had Steliano in 1892. I am not sure if he was cousin or another brother of Theodoros and Ioannis. The first Papoulis name appears in 1859.

Zolotas wrote that after the Holocaust, the town of Parparia had to be abandoned. The survivors had to go to Volissos and after a few years returned with people from Volissos to re-start the town. According to one source, in 1827, there were about 30 or so people in Parparia.

A) Theodoros Papoulis married a Stamatini and they had four children named:

1) Mixalis Papoulis (1859)

2) Maria

3) Evgenia

4) Ioannis (born 1868)

B) Ioannis Papoulis married Maria and had:

1) Mixali “Gero Foustanas” (born1867) who married Maria Tsourougiannos .

2) Giorgis “Gero Mastrogiorgis” (born 1873)

3) Dimitri “Gero Kondakas” (1879) who married Gero Gla- Gla’s daughter Sofia Potamousis.

4) Vasilios (1885)

The first child of THEODOROS tou Mixali PAPOULIS was

Mihalis Papoulis who got married to Kalliope Tsoucalas who had 3 children.

Those children were:

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