Diaspora Vintage Portraits/ People

Soko is a grand daughter of Lafcadio Hearn. She is visiting Greece at the moment (January, 2013). John (Yanni), who lives in Athens, and in Livathi, Kythera, has written an excellent life history of Lafcadio Hearn, (in G...

Owner of the Kempsey Macleay Talkies CINEMA. Father of prominent Kytherian solicitor Con Mottee, who was for a considerable period of of time, solicitor to the Kytherian Association of Australia. Matina Mottee (nee, Kass...

by: Adrian Mourby From: The Australian November 25, 2011 The former residence of writer Lafcadio Hearn in Matsue. Picture: JNTO These days the name Lafcadio Hearn is mostly known only to people who have read You Only Liv...

This is a photograph of my grandfather, Peter E. Kassimatis's sister Yanoula. She was from the village of Fratsia and her extended family is in Athens today. This was taken in 1926. I did not see this photo listed in the...

I have limited information about this photo. It is my grandfather, Peter Emanuel Kassimatis's, uncle's wife and daughter. Peter was from Fratsia. His mother's name was Stathoula Glitsos Kassimatis and his father's name w...

This photograph is of my grandfather's sisters, Rosa seated and Stamatina standing. It was taken in 1924 and mailed to my grandfather, Peter E. Kassimatis in the U.S. They were from the village of Fratsia.

This photograph was taken in Athens in 1916. It is a photo of my grandfather, Peter Emmanuel Kassimatis and his sisters Frosso and Maria. This was taken the same year he emigrated to the United States. They lived in the...

This photograph is of my great grandmother, Stahtoula Glitsos Kassimatis and her daughter Stamatina. They lived in Fratsia. This picture was sent to my grandfather, Peter E. Kassmiatis who emigrated to the United States...

I was thrilled last week to find this listed as one of the photographs that were restored as part of the Fatseas collection in 2008. Recently my father gave me some old family photos. I had scanned them a week before stu...

From a Christmas Card from the Kytherian Association of New York, sent to my grandparents, Yiannis and Maria Chlentzos, in Oakland, CA. Left to right: Ioannis Kassimatis Vasileios Baveas Nikolaos Kastrisios Ioannis Gavri...

Lafcadio Hearn's biography has been related extensively both on the Message Board, and as a separate entry in Vintage Portraits/People. His mother, Rosa Antonia Tessima Cerg Kassimatis (Cassimatis) was born in Kythera in...

Lafcadio Hearn 1850-1904 Rosa Antonia Tessima Cerg Kassimatis (Cassimatis) was born on Kythira Island, in 1823. She married the Irish Surgeon Charles Hearn and had three children to him. Rosa Kassimati Hearn's second chi...

James Daniel Hearn in Connecticut -- 1876 Rosa Antonia Tessima Cerg Kassimatis (Cassimatis) had three children to the Irish surgeon Charles Hearn. In 1856 before marrying Greek-Italian Giovanni Cavallini* of Cerigo Islan...

Not sure as to the last names of the men on the left. I think the man in the middle is Kassimatis. He was responsible for building the hospital over in Logothetianica by having fund-raising events in various US cities he...