The Manifest of In-Bound Passengers (Aliens) for the SS Constitution, Class TOURIST, sailing from Cannes on November 21, 1951 and arriving at the Port of New York on November 30, 1951. Manifest No. 4-43, page 3. US Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service Form I-415.
The Jeannopoulos family appears on lines 3 and 4:
| Line | Family Name | Given Name | Age | Sex | Marital | Travel Doc / Nationality | Destination in US |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | JEANNOPOULOS | Ines Valda | 26 | F | M (Married) | I-752917 / French | 370 Fort Washington Ave, New York NY |
| 4 | JEANNOPOULOS | Eftichia C. | 1½ | F | S (Single) | USA 57 / Tunis · U.S. Citizen | Same as above |
What the manifest records
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Ines Valda Jeannopoulos — age 26, French national, traveling on French travel document I-752917. She had married John Lazare Jeannopoulos in Sousse, Tunisia c.1948 (where they ran a regional field hospital after John’s US Army WWII service) and was now arriving in the United States to join him for the postwar American chapter. Born Agnes Cicchinelli in St Albans La Roche, France on January 23, 1925 — she traveled under her adult French name “Ines Valda” on this manifest.
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Eftichia C. Jeannopoulos — age 1½, US Citizen, born in Tunis. This is Eftichia “Claudine” (later Boyhan, after her marriage to Patrick Boyhan) — the biological daughter of John Lazare and Ines, born in Tunisia c.1950, named after her paternal grandmother Eftyhia Karamitrou Yannopoulou. Her US citizenship at 1½ was acquired by birth abroad to a US-citizen parent (John Lazare, US-born in Soma 1911 and naturalized through Lazaros).
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Destination: 370 Fort Washington Avenue, NYC — the same Washington Heights address used by Constantine on his 1947 US Certificate of Citizenship. The Greek diaspora neighborhood where the family clustered through the postwar period.
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John Lazare himself is not on this manifest. He had returned to the United States separately — likely earlier with the US Army Medical Corps or via a different passage — and was already established at the 370 Fort Washington Avenue address awaiting Ines and Claudine’s arrival.
The Tunisia chapter resolved
This manifest is the documentary closing chapter of the Sousse, Tunisia 1948–1951 field-hospital years. Ines had no pre-existing Tunisia connection of her own — she followed John there at the end of WWII, where they married and ran a regional field hospital together. Their daughter Claudine was born in Tunis around 1950. Three months before her second birthday, Ines and Claudine boarded the SS Constitution at Cannes and crossed to New York to join John for the start of his Long Island ophthalmology practice.
Other passengers on this page
The page records 11 aliens and 3 US citizens total — Claudine was one of the three US citizens. The other passengers were a mix of French nationals (Di Gregorio, Jacquier, the Marceau family bound for Palm Beach, the Tessore family bound for Idaho), a Swedish couple (Lundberg, bound for Union City NJ), and a Texas-bound McGuire family. The US Immigrant Inspector — D. W. Cowles — signed off at 3:55 PM. The manifest passed border control as a routine postwar trans-Atlantic crossing.
