Diaspora Vintage Portraits/ People

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

This photo was taken in Armidale, probably in the 1920s. George Comino (Galanis) is seated 5th from the right.

Peter Comino Irene Calligeros (nee. Comino) George Comino nickname Galanis in Armidale: early 1940's

Manual Comino - Galanis taken in the late 20s or early 30's in Australia

1950's Wedding: George Poulos & Helen Comino back row: John Comino (Galanis), Vasilli Comino (Galanis), George Comino (Galanis), unknown, Maria Zandis, George Comino (Galanis), Irene Kalligeros (Vranas) nee. Comino (Gala...

The marriage of Maria and Peter Comino (Psilos) in the 1930s.

From left to right: John Malos, his sister Violet, their mother Mrs Malos, their father Mr Paul Malos, and Dimitri (Jim) Aroney. The family of Paul Malos, originally from Kythera, resided for many years in Mackay, North...

Manuel J Aroney with his parents Jim and Stamatia Aroney in the front yard of their home in Mackay, circa 1949-50

The Central Café, Mackay, North Queensland. Photo taken circa 1930. Pictured left to right: the café cook, Dimitrios Aroney, Andy and Peter Aroney, and the café waitresses