Diaspora Vintage Portraits/ People

From the Voice of Kythera, newspaper, 1927. Nick G Marcello was born on the 15th August,1880, in Potamos, Kythera. He emigrated to Australia on the 6th November,1907 on the ‘Bremen.’ Ann Coward has revealed that Stamati...

From the Voice of Kythera, newspaper, 1927. Nick G Marcello was born on the 15th August,1880, in Potamos, Kythera. He emigrated to Australia on the 6th November,1907 on the ‘Bremen.’ Ann Coward has revealed that Stamati...

18/10/1916 – 27/3/2010 Cons father, Yeoryi Dimitri Tzortzopoulos was born in Karavas in 1869. His family parachoukli, or nickname was Hihlis. He married Olympia Tzortzopoulos, born in 1874, who was the daughter of the re...

The Tzannes family ("Pateros") photograph was taken in Kythera in 1928 and sent to the older sons Stratis & Jack who were in Australia. The final photo was spliced with Stratis & Jack (far right)added in Sydney and then...

From left to right : Theo Kalokairinos, Mr. Tzannes, and Theo's brother Minas. Theo and Minas,owned the Monterey Cafe in Gunnedah NSW and Mr.Tzannes was in Armidale NSW . Minas and Theo were brothers with the Bishop Gavr...

Stratis Tzannes (third from right) about to leave Greece for Australia with his bride Phofo (nee Panaretos) (third from left). Also pictured, Peter Crithary (left) and Phofo’s father Spiros Panaretos (second from left) F...

Spiros Panaretos and Eleni Gengos were married on Kythera in 1906. They had seven children, five of whom came to Australia. The second youngest Phofo married Stratis Tzannes from Livadi in 1939. Family name: Panaretos Vi...

From left to right: Manoli Travis, Maria Travis (nee Tzannes), Stratis Tzannes, Annetta Tzannes, Arhondo Tzannes (nee Panaretos), Manoli Tzannes and Kalomira Tzannes (their mother and mother in law) Family name: Tzannes...

From left to right: brothers Con, Jack, Charles and Stratis Tzannes. Stratis, the eldest brother, had arranged for three of his four surviving brothers to migrate to Australia. The fourth and youngest brother Dimitri rem...

When Stratis and Phofo (nee Panaretos) married they had to go to Athens to find a priest who would marry them because Stratis’ brother had earlier married Phofo’s sister and the Kytherian priests would not marry them. Fa...

Stratis (left) and Phofo Tzannes (nee Panaretos) as newlyweds in their first home on arrival in Australia from Greece. Family name: Tzannes & Panaretos Village of origin: Livadi & Potamos Photo taken: 1940

Peter (left) and his younger brother Andy. Leaning against a borrowed car in Glen-Innes NSW Australia. Family name: Panaretos Village of origin: Potamos Photo taken: circa 1943

Andy Panaretos (middle front), Peter Panaretos (the muscle man), Maria Freeleagus (nee Panaretos) (left), and Maria’s husband Kiriakos Freeleagus (right). Kiriakos Freeleagus was a member of the very prominent and prospe...

Peter Panaretos flexing his muscles in the 1940’s Peter Panaretos settled in Glen-Innes (near Armidale) in NSW, and took over the Peter’s store. He ran the business with his brother Andy (the 7th child of Spiros Panareto...

Spiros Panaretos in naval cadet uniform. Photo taken before he travelled to Australia circa 1895. Family name: Panaretos Village of origin: Potamos Photo taken: circa 1895 Spiros Panaretos born in 1876

Father Evangelos Crithary the priest of Karavas and his wife Stamatia (nee Panaretos). Family name: Crithary & Panaretos Village of origin: Karavas & Potamos Photo taken: circa 1908

Spiros Panaretos with his mother Maria (nee Marcellos) circa 1908. This photo was taken when he returned to Kythera from Australia. Family name: Panaretos Village of origin: Potamos Photo taken: circa 1908

Spiros came to Australia in the late 1890’s and built up the Peter’s stores in the New England District NSW. He regularly bicycled between them. He returned to Greece in 1906 to marry Eleni Gengos. He was dissuaded by hi...

Left to right: Spiros Panaretos, the youngest of four brothers, with his eldest brother Minas Panaretos. Family name: Panaretos Village of origin: Potamos Photo taken: circa late 1890’s

Left to right: Dimitris, Mihalis and Spiros Panaretos Family name: Panaretos Village of origin: Potamos Photo taken: circa 1908