Diaspora Vintage Portraits/ People

My Grandparents Agapi and George Lianos, early in their married life, with Emmanuel and Stavroula The Life story of George and Agapi Lianos The Lianos Comino Odyssey My Grandparents were Agapi and George Lianos from Kyth...

The Lianos Comino Osyssey My Grandparents were Agapi and George Lianos from Kythera,Greece. Papou was born on the 9th June1873 in the village of Liananika to Emmanuel and Relia, farm owners. He was the only son and had f...

The man who Hellenised Australia's flying icon Harry Corones, in his forties, is standing second from the right, in the back row. Other persons in the front row cannot be identified. Do you know them? In the back row Lef...

in Canberra. Theodora is on the far right. Elena 4th from the right. 2nd from right: Mrs Harry Notaras 3rd from right: man unknown, (can you help identify him?) Far right: Mrs Aspacia Sophios. (Alex Sophios's mother) I h...

I have written the Life Story of my father, which features in the Notable Kytherians section. My father was a Founding Member of the Kytherian Association of Australia in 1922. He was also on the organising Committtee of...

My father Bretos Margetis was named after his grandfather, who is pictured here with his daughters,and was probably born about 1850. His son George married Vasilia Galanis and they had three boys, Bretos, Dimitri and Min...

Can you help, by identifying the person standing next to my father in these photographs? I have written the Life Story of my father, which features in the Notable Kytherians section. My father was a Founding Member of th...

Photograph taken in Greece, when my father Bretos was about 14 years of age (approx, 1902), just prior before Bretos's departure for Australia. I have written the Life Story of my father, which features in the Notable Ky...

The photograph was taken in 1930 in Athens. Mr Panarettos had at least two daughters, one of them would go on to marry Zacharios Simos, of Paragon Cafe, Katoomba, fame. (This is not Mary). Another, Arianthe would go on t...

He may be holding a tortoise, but Takis does not act slowly when it comes to promoting Lafcadio Hearn's life and legacy around the world.

......owner of the Sydney Cafe, and long standing Treasurer of the Kytherian Association of Australia in the 1920's and 1930's. Emmanuel Mavromatis (the family name was changed to Mathers), served as the Treasurer of the...

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...

Chrissie was left ophaned and destitute after the death of her father. My grandfather, Emmanuel Mavromatis, assisted her and her mother to migrate to America, where the family had a number of relatives.

Back Row, Left to Right: Andrew Comino (who had 4 daughters) Harry and Agape Samios (who had a daughter Poppy) Harry Corones, notable Kytherian from Charleville. Date: in the 1920's(?)

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...

The entry for the Kritharis and Tzorztopoulos brothers on Page 147, Life in Australia, (1916), which includes Theo Crithary reads: Kritharis & Tzortzopoulos brothers 1) Theodoros Kritharis, (Theo Crithary) 2) Theodoros T...

Page 147, Life in Australia, (1916). 1) Theodoros Kritharis, (Theo Crithary) 2) Theodoros Tzortzopoulos, (theo Poulos) 3) Minas Tzortzopoulos, (Mick Poulos) 4) Panagiotis Kritharis (Peter Crithary) View / download a copy...

Seated: Theothoros (Theo) Tzortzopoulos (left) and Minas (Mick) (Poulos) (right), and two other young men - currently unamed? The dedication on the back of the photograph may indicate who these two unidentified men are?...

The family that established a coffee dynasty. From, Hugh Gilchrist. Australians and Greeks. Vol I: The Early Years. p. 203. "...From the Kythiran village of Mylopotamos came seven Andronikos (the surname spelt "Andronicu...