General History

Sydney Morning Herald, December 9, 2009 page 10. Photo by Jack Patty 's son, Manuel Patty A newly reprinted book reveals the story of early Greek migrants in Australia, writes Anna Patty. The dockets at Aroney's Cafe in...

Greeks Regina D’Italia 1924 The list of passengers who embarked at Port Said Egypt on the Regina D'Italia. This list includes all nationalities. Some of the names included are those that survived the Smyrna 1922 incident...

Preserved by Marina S Pentes. The extensive presence of Kytherians in the Central West of New South Wales, centred on Dubbo, can be gauged from the vast number of advertisements in this booklet. Was an advertisement plac...

Nikos attended the Primary School in Pitsinianika, Kythera and the High School (Gymnasium) in Chora, Kythera. He left Kythera when he finished the Gymnasium, at the age of 18. Nikos went on to establish a succesful acade...

Gilgandra's Kytherian business history. 1910-2000 The Seven Ages of Man All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many par...

Mrs Crisannthe "Chris" Kelly, (nee, Georgopoulos) - (pronounced Yeoryopoulos) was born in Potamos, Kythera, on the 17th January 1910. Local identity Mrs Chris Kelly was guest of honour at a 90th birthday after­noon tea h...

The Gollan Milk Bar (85 Woodlark) George Sargent is now the longest running Greek proprietor in Woodlark, having taken up residence in 1936, but a relative youngster in the long run of Woodlark machinations. His shop is...

Kytherians at War Greek Australian VEMA TO BHMA 7/39 April 2002 ANZAC Day Feature Compiled (with the help of many others) and edited by Ann Coward No, this is not an article about feuding fami­lies. It is about Australia...

Odyssey Magazine, Vol. 7 No. 6 (July/August2000) Kythira has been dubbed "Kangaroo island" because of the large number of Greek-Australian women who have made their lives there. Anna Patty meets some of them and asks wh...

George Dimitri (Tzortzo) Poulos and Con Dimitri (Tzortzo) Poulos as young men in the 1950's. From an interview with Con Dimitri (Tzortzo) Poulos. "My father ran the Goulburn Cafe". (Now, (2005) a Chinese Restaurant (the...

From, Peter Vanges. Kythera. A History. 1993. Chapter 52 Kytherian Brotherhood of Australia (NSW) Committees, 1922-2005. Seventy years ago, the Kytherian pioneers in Australia saw the need to unite the Kytherian communit...

From, Peter Vanges. Kythera. A History. 1993. Chapter 52 Kytherian Brotherhood of Australia (NSW) Seventy years ago, the Kytherian pioneers in Australia saw the need to unite the Kytherian community within a formal assoc...

North Western NSW – Walgett Plains and Backa Beyond Bourke By common consent Bourke is where the line in the sand defines the start of the outback and where the locals boast that NSW’s highest official temperature of 51....

Lower New England Barraba The Barrabarians were civilized in late 1905 by a subtle new twist to the euphoric fragrance of frying onions, that great cooking smell, wafting out of a shop in Queen Street. Standing at the st...

The Hunter Region Cessnock Seventeen year old Mick Emmanuel Potiri led the Catering Corps into Cessnock in 1908 after a brief cadetship with his brother George on the Tablelands. Four and a half years later he passed com...

Mid North Coast Bowraville Looks like another rare town whose fortifications managed to hold out the encircling wagons of the Kytherians. Around 1914 a bloke named Arthur Kyriacos appears to have brought the first Greek...

The Clarence District Bellingen Athanasios Anastasios Samios came down from Murwillumbah in early 1908, by then an old experienced hand aged 20, and was possibly a waiter for someone or other until establishing/acquiring...

The Richmond District Alstonville Emmanuel Harry Mavris (Mavromikhail) acquired a cafe here in mid 1922, but who came before or after is still on the investigation list. He was 10yrs old when he left home in Piraeus, spe...