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submitted by Peter Makarthis on 21.08.2018
Man who found luck in the Lucky Country
(Transcribed from Australian Women’s Weekly, 30 Jan 1974)
Andrew V. Fatseas tells his story.
This story for Australia Day (1974) – the day marking European settlement in this country – tells what happened to a Greek migrant who arrived in 1924, 136 years after the first settler stepped ashore at Sydney ….. a ...
submitted by Peter Makarthis on 26.02.2019
‘Andrew’ Anargyros Vretos Fatseas
aka
Andrew Victor Fatseas (Andy)
1907 – 1998
“Whether in bliss or in distress, I never forget the land of my birth. After all, it was mother Greece who instilled into me those moral virtues, without which I would not have appreciated as fully as I do now what Australia has given to me.”
‘Andrew’ Fatseas, Australia Day 1974
Anargyros ...
submitted by vasiliki Theocharopoulou on 03.11.2017
ELENI PANARETOU-KOMINOU
Family
My grandfather, John Panaretos, returned from Australia in 1906. He married my grandmother, Eleni Katsouli, who died a year later, 17 days after the birth of my father, Dimitris. The orphan child was then breastfed by Irini Prineas. When my father was three years old, my grandfather remarried and had four children with his second wife. My father had a difficult childhood, always having to do ...
submitted by Kytherian Cultural Exchange on 16.02.2016
The Weekend Neos Kosmos, (Melbourne) Saturday 13th February 2016, Page 16 Author Melina Mallos has a winning formula for bringing children in touch with their cultural heritage that Cat while on holiday to her parents' birthplace ANASTASIA TSIRTSAKIS One can't think of the beautiful cobbled streets of the Greek islands without the meow of a cat springing ...
submitted by Peter Makarthis on 03.10.2013
A Greek Soldier is Buried (From “The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan Advertiser,” Thursday 21 June 1945) We take the following from the Lithgow “Clarion” of 1st May 1945:- “The funeral of late Mr. Simon Cordato, aged 65, of Main Street, Katoomba was held on Sunday afternoon. The service of the Greek Orthodox Church was held in St. Hilda’s Church of England by Rev. B. Christomes of Sydney. Almost one hundred of the Greek Community were present, and followed ...
submitted by Gaye Hegeman on 14.11.2012
Quiet day looking over some old Emails. My name is Theodore Panaretos, son of Minas Panaretos. My Grandfather, Theodore had children, Panagiotis, Alexandros, Minas, Aspacia, Maria, and Eleni. Granmother Anthe had lost a child upon leaving Smyrna during the Catastophe. I recall at the age of 12 or 14 being with my Grandfather at his death. I was born in 1928. I recall that they had put vedouses on his back to try and help him. Did not work --he passed. I had looked at the chart and found a ...
submitted by Anna Avgoustou on 16.03.2010
Stavroula (Violet) was born on January 13, 1928, in Potamos, Kythera. My father's name was Dionysius Theodorakakis and my mother's name was Marigo Mazaraki. I was the youngest of five, with four older brothers, Kiriakos (Kerry), Ioannis (John), Gerasimos and Manuel. Manual died as an infant at 6 months and Gerasimos at 20 years. My father (also known as Denny) spent many years in Australia, working with his nephews in cafes throughout country NSW. In Australia, they took on their family ...
submitted by Peter Makarthis on 25.04.2009
'Stan' Steleanos Gengos, son of Evangelos and Evangelia Gengos, born Aug 1919 in Sydney enlisted in the Australian Army May 1940. Private Steleanos Gengos 2/15 Australian Infantry Battalion was killed during the siege of Tobruk Libya 1 September 1942. Pte Steleanos Gengos is buried in the El Alamein War Cemetery. Steleanos Memorials are on the Commemorative Area of the Australian War Memorial Canberra ACT and Brisbane War Memorial. Rest in Peace Researched
William Gengos, born Inverell October 1916 the son of Vassilios and Calliope, Gengos died in the Tobruk area on 12 August 1942. Flying Officer William Gengos was the co-pilot of a Wellington Bomber - AD629 - set out from Kabrit Airfield Egypt on a bombing mission over Tobruk Libya. The aircraft was lost on the mission. The aircraft and crew were never found. William Gengos Memorials are located on his fathers headstone in Moree Cemetery (see under Gravestones) and the ...
submitted by The Australian Newspaper on 23.04.2009
one of only 9 applications from 962 submiiteed, gain funding. Leigh Dayton The Australian, April 23, 2009, page 6 article 1 Researchers race to develop bionic eye The scientific race is on for all or part of the $50.7 million allotted for research to develop a bionic eye. The goal of the research -- funded over four years as part of the Rudd Government's response to last year's 2020 Summit -- is to commercialise ...
submitted by Kytherian Cultural Exchange on 26.10.2008
as written by Katie Cassim - April 2002 CHARLES CASSIM - He was the eighth child and third son of a Minister in the Greek Orthodox Church. His Grandfather and his maternal Grandfather were also in the Church on the island of Kythera. His Father was also an Iconographer, a graduate of an Art School in Crete. In Kythera, the family owned property on which they grew vines, grapes and pears. They also had in the family two Chapels. Charles went to school in Potamos, ...
submitted by SUN HERALD on 10.08.2008
Sun Herald, Sydney, Australia, August 10, 2008. Louise Hall Health Reporter. AUSTRALIA'S first bionic eye will be implanted by two Sydney researchers. Using the same cochlear technology that allows the deaf to hear, the device aims to restore basic vision in patients with degenerative eye diseases, allowing them to walk without a cane or guide dog and differentiate between night and day. Minas ...
submitted by Gaye Hegeman on 06.02.2008
Theodoros George Andronicos Tested To The Very Extreme One hundred and ten years ago my grandfather, Theo Andronicos, left his home in the town of Potamos, to make the long voyage to Australia on an Orient Line steamship, the “Oruba”, disembarking at Circular Quay Sydney in July 1897. He was sixteen years old when he reached Australia. Grandfather neither returned to the island he called Cerigo, ...
submitted by Gaye Hegeman on 06.08.2007
We always knew that our grandfather had an older brother, Emmanuel who had lived and worked somewhere in New South Wales early last century. Because grandfather died in 1948, many years before my interest in family history began, all of this vital information literally went with him to the grave. My mother Rene (formerly Andronicos) remembered place names in association with her uncle, Casino, Kyogle and Coonamble, but nothing came of our enquiries with the respective local councils ...
submitted by Gaye Hegeman on 09.02.2007
The first member of Jim’s family, who ventured to a new life in Australia, was his father Andy (Anargrios) Panarettos. The exact date of his arrival is not known, but he came in the late 1800’s, before the turn of the century. He owned a cafe in partnership with his brother at Gunedah in New South Wales and after more than five years of residence, was naturalized in 1905. Not long after his naturalization, Andy who by this time was over thirty years of age, returned to ...
submitted by Vikki Vrettos Fraioli on 06.07.2009
Reprinted by permission, from the Desert Dispatch, Barstow, California Tuesday, August 10, 2004 Backward Glance by Steve Smith Meet Barstow's Olympian: Pete Clentzos Editor's note: This is the first of two parts. Recently I was watching the Olympic torch relay on TV when the torch was passed to Pete Clentzos. They briefly ran down his biography, mainly emphasizing that he, having just ...
I know of a Nickolas Stathis who lived in Ipswich and later West End. He had about...
Hi Ellisanna I think we are cousins my mother's family were also lazzaretti from Newport mother's name...
mmm translate-type-error happend... I ment bar Astikon! Excuse me : )
Hello, I'm Lien from Holland and searching for the picture I saw in bar Askiton in Potamos and was...
About 5 minutes into the program Ada Margariti, who is an Attorney at Law, speaks about how she came to...
Interviewed during his visit to Australia, 2013.
August 17, 2010 103.2 HOPE - radio station You’ve heard of PhDs in science, medicine and education but have you...
Brisbane kytherians at paliochora excursion ..exploring the wonderful site and seeing all the churches .. this one is called ' e...
Gorgeous Ruby! Ruby's father was Evangelo Megaloconomos born 7 September 1891, died 29 January 1983 Ruby was born 16 September...
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