Emigrants of the Pnevmatikos Family
Members of the Pnevmatikos Family from Berbati who emigrated to the U.S. In total five members of the Pnevmatikos family emigrated to the U.S. between 1903 and 1912.
Pnevmatikos Demetrios A. “Botzios” (1890-1970)
1st Voyage
Stated Age: 16
Arrival Date: April 10, 1903
Ship of Travel: SS Sicilia
Port of Departure: Piraeus (Greece)
Final Destination: Chicago, IL
Contact person in the U.S.: His uncle Theodoros Goritsas
At Ellis Island, he went through S.I. (Special Inquiry). Maybe he was sent back.
2nd Voyage
Stated Age: 19
Arriva Date: March 13, 1906
Ship of Travel: SS Hudson
Port of Departure: Le Havre (France)
Final Destinaton: Chicago, IL
Contact person in the U.S. : His cousin Thomas (Anastasios) Chokas
Eventually, he returned to the village.
Pnevmatikos Vasilios M. “Koutsovasilis” (1886-)
Stated Age: 20
Arrival Date: September 10, 1906
Ship of Travel: SS La Bretagne
Port of Departure: Le Havre (France)
Final Destination: Norfolk
Contact person in the U.S.: His cousin Christ. Koutsouris
Eventually, he returned to live in the village. He married Chrysavgi P. Boziki and had three children.
Pnevmatikos Athanasios A. “Botzios” (1889-)
Stated Age: 20
Arrival Date: July 13, 1909
Ship of Travel: SS Alice
Port of Departure: Patras (Greece)
Final Destination: Chicago, IL
Contact person in the U.S.: His brother Demetrios Pnevmatikos
He travelled together with his sister Sophia. The Ship manifest states he had been in the U.S. between 1903-1908. There is no record of what became of him.
He immigrated to the U.S.
Pnevmatikou Sophia Α. “Botzena” (1885-)
Stated age: 22
Arrivall Date: July 13, 1909
Ship of Travel: SS Alice
Port of Departure: Patras (Patras)
Final Destination: Chicago, IL
Contact person in the U.S.: Her brother Demetrios Pnevmatikos
She immigrated to the U.S.
She traveled together with her brother Athanasios. On December 26, 1909, she married Christos A. Belesiotis “Kitsogatsis” in Portland, Oregon. They had one daughter.
Pnevmatikos Ioannis A. “Botzios” (1893-)
Stated Age: 17
Arrival Date: July 8, 1912
Ship of Travel: SS Macedonia
Port of Departure: Piraeus
Final Destination: Portland, OR
Contact person in the US: His brother in law Christos Belesiotis
He probably immigrated to the U.S. There is no record of him.
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