"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity." Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro Publio Sestio There are many categories in this section - they are now visible in the navigation on the left. By choosing any one of them you can view the entries, and by clicking on the add to... links at the top right of each category page, you can easily submit your own entry. Please note! There are dozens of historic and fascinating photographs to be found in the Kythera Cultural Archive section of this site.
submitted by Gaye Hegeman on 12.07.2008
Without the love and care of her immediate family and a network of aunts, uncles, great-aunts and great-uncles and their children, the transition that Chris had to make when she migrated to Australia at the age of fourteen would have been very hard indeed to accomplish. Towards the end of her last year at primary school her aunt and uncle, Frosso (Efrosine) and Paul Satouris who lived in the New South Wales country town of Cowra, invited Chris to live with them. They were able to offer her a home, ...
submitted by Gaye Hegeman on 26.03.2008
The Australian part of George Comino’s story began in 1954. He vividly remembers the day, 1st April 1954 when he stepped off the ship the Fairsea at Circular Quay Sydney. He was met by his brother Peter who was his sponsor. Peter had driven all the way from the Southeast Queensland town of Laidley in his brand new Holden sedan car. For the first four months after his arrival George worked with his brothers in their Café, the Central Café at Laidley. When the drapery shop next door to the ...
submitted by James Victor Prineas on 18.03.2008
The Australian part of George Comino’s story begins in 1954. He vividly remembers the day, 1st April 1954 when he stepped off the ship the Fairsea at Circular Quay Sydney. He was met by his brother Peter who was his sponsor. Peter had driven all the way from the Southeast Queensland town of Laidley in his brand new Holden sedan car. For the first four months after his arrival George worked with his brothers in their Café, the Central Café at Laidley. When the drapery shop next door to the ...
submitted by Gaye Hegeman on 19.11.2007
While I was living in Melbourne during the 1980s I enrolled in a Greek language course with the CAE. Our teacher was Nina Black a well known personality in the Greek community as well as in the wider community. It was through her that I learned her brother-in-law, Jim Panos was Kytherian and that he lived in Hobart. When I explained that I also had Panaretos forebears she immediately claimed me as a relative! My sister and her husband lived in Hobart too. So when I flew over to Tasmania to spend ...
submitted by Toni Risson on 31.10.2007
Daughters of Aphrodite: Cafe Brides Chapter 5, Aphrodite and the Mixed Grill. Kytherian-born, George Kentrotis, left Fratsia in 1925, when he was 21. He returned from Australia at the age of 53 to find a wife. Vasiliki was a beautiful 25-year-old from Fratsia. She had an aunt who used to tell people’s fortunes by tipping the dregs of their coffee cups out onto a saucer. Vasi recalls that when she was a teenager, her aunt ‘read’ her cup and told her that ...
submitted by Peter Makarthis on 15.06.2007
Sunday Sensation Not something new on the menu of S.Peter & Co Cafe in Otho Street on a Sunday afternoon in January of 1925 but an event more closely related to the fabled bull in the china shop. On this occasion a horse through the café. This report is taken from The Inverell Times of Tuesday 6th January 1925. Sunday Sensation HORSE BOLTS THROUGH SHOP REMARKABLE FEAT A mild sensation was created in ...
submitted by Gaye Hegeman on 08.03.2007
In August 2005 when we travelled to Kythera to attend the "Discover your Roots" event at Hora, we stayed in the village of Fratsia. It was our habit most evenings to wander down to the main square to buy a cool drink or have a light meal. There was always someone new to meet. "Come and meet Harry" someone said, "he is from Brisbane too!" Every year in April Harry flies to Kythera to spend the summer in the house where he was born. The rest of the year he resides in Brisbane ...
submitted by Alfred Vincent on 23.08.2006
An Interview with Nicholas Laurantus. By, Takis Constantopedos, & Alfred Vincent Περιοδικό, Tο Γιοφύρι, 3-4, (Σύδνεύ, 1978) The periodical, The Yofiri, 3-4, pp. 15-17, Sydney, 1978. The original inteview was conducted in both Greek and English, and written up in both Greek and English. In the words of the interviewers this was done to capture the authentic essence of Laurantus's character. Here, the Greek text ...
submitted by Clarence River Historical Society on 30.05.2006
“the sparks from the magnesium were a real hazard” "My recollection of the Relay was that I replied to an invitation in the newspaper to participate by the old Orara Shire Council, (now Ulmarra Shire) and the conditions were that we should be able to run a mile in six minutes. I was duly selected to participate, but due to a misunderstanding I was allocated Dirty Creek Range, a steep climb on the road, the crest of which was the Orara ...
"Even today I realise the honour the Council placed on me to carry the Torch. My involvement with the Olympic Torch Relay commenced in early 1956, when Councils ‘YiI asked for potential runners who could run one mile in under six minutes to nominate. At the time I was involved in various sporting organisations, firstly the Woolgoolga Surf Life Saving Club which in the summer months I competed in beach sprinting, swimming and rowing. In the winter I played rugby ...
submitted by Jim Comino on 19.03.2006
Papa always had photos of Anna /Helen/ the daughters of Mary his Sister who theo and Andrew bought out from Kythera and they worked in his shopin Merriwa until theo introduced Helen to Con in Oberon and Anna to Theo Coronios in Scone. These girls Mother Mary [Theo and Andrews sister] was married to Panayiotis Mavromatis, who passed away in Tottenham, where he was in some sort of partnership in a business there. Theo Comino and Andrew fought a bitter court case over this which cost them some ...
submitted by Kythiraismos, Newspaper on 25.02.2006
APRIL 2003 Edition number: 247 From the archive of the newspaper "Kytherian Idea"* *Original name of "Kythiraismos", Newspaper. FROM THE NEWSPAPERS ARCHIVE ENGLISH SECTION A Remembering from Kythera's occupation (An article from the recent editon of the Greek Orthodox Archiocese of Australia) Kythera is an island that divides the Ionian, Aegean and Cretan seas in the southernmost part of the Peloponnese. ...
submitted by Pat Heaney on 19.11.2005
1. I recall that Peter had the cafe during the war. I am sure he had it in 1940. It became the Victory Cafe after the War. 2. Peter was extremely generous. He was always good to us as kids. If we needed to, he would let us book things up and pay him later. 3. I would often see swagmen at the back of Peter's shop. He would give them a free feed. Peter was always kind and generous. 4. I remember Peter, one time, becoming very excited. He had just ...
submitted by Marion Brown (nee, Johnson) on 14.11.2005
As told to George C Poulos, Friday 4th November, 2005. I was born on the 22nd January, 1921, in Cumnock, in New South Wales. My father was Bill Johnson. Our family moved to the Gilgandra district when I was 4 years of age. Initially we lived out on the land - near Curban. When we moved into Gilgandra, our family lived in a house opposite the old school. I married Albert "Bertie" John Brown, and we came to own 3 bakeries in Gilgandra. One was located in ...
submitted by Archie Kalokerinos on 03.10.2005
From the book MEDICAL PIONEER OF THE 20TH CENTURY CHAPTER 3 MEDICAL SCHOOL The relaxation of entry requirements into the faculty of medicine resulted in a record number of enrolments. Three hundred students, more than twice the usual number, crowded into the lecture theatres of the Old Medical School and hoped to eventually be tagged with the title of ‘Doctor’. There were, however, some major hurdles to overcome. Six years of study would ...
From the book MEDICAL PIONEER OF THE 20TH CENTURY CHAPTER 1 MY FATHER AND MOTHER According to family folklore, my father’s family originated in Constantinople, about 1500 AD. During the next 400 years there are records of Kalokerinos men in Crete and the little island of Kythera that is situated between Crete and the mainland of Greece. Movements seemed to be random in nature but were probably initiated by three factors -business, trade ...
submitted by George Poulos on 29.09.2005
As a young man in his 20's. Taken whilst he was acting as a groomsman at his Uncle Dimitri's wedding. Theothosios Triunduphilos Koroneos, Theo Corones, was born in Karavas, Kythera, on the 29th January 1926. He died in the North Queensland coastal town of Bargara, on the 13th September 1998. His parents were Triunduphilos Theothosios Koroneos Belos from Karavas, and ...
submitted by Joyce Wrigley on 15.09.2005
This is my account of a night (24th February) during the Gilgandra flood of 1955. It was written on the 23rd of February, 2005. I am 86 years old. Can't believe it is now 50 years since we had that awful flood - not easily forgotten. It was my husband Leo and my 15th wedding anniversary. It had been raining for over a week with hardly a break, and now there was a couple of fine days to try and catch up on our jobs. The police had heard of a big ...
submitted by Stella Aird (nee, Kelly) on 08.12.2006
My first memories of the shop were growing up with lots of people around all the time – the watchdogs we had ( which would jump the back fence every time there was a storm) and of course sitting on top of the woodheap to watch the movies (for free) as we got older. The other thing was that we shared a common lane with the Western Stores and there were stables at the back on the riverbank where the country folk used to bring their horse and sulkies into town and leave them out the back in the ...
submitted by George Poulos on 07.12.2006
in the other Kytherian Cafe. When I was young, I spent a great deal of time working in the Gilgandra Fruit Mart. Gilgandra Fruit Mart, 1960's, complete with milkbar, counter, and stools Every so often I would feel like a milkshake. I was allowed to make one, and drink it whenever I liked. Which I often did. But I always felt ...
Hi Harold (distant cousin!) Vikki is correct. Velio married Angelo Chlentzos 'Bylos' on 30 Aug 1923 in...
Hi Harold, You should be able to connect with many of your relatives here and on Kythera...
My wife and I intend to visit Kythera from Australia in August 2024. We hope to see...
This is a section of a set of maps of the Ionian Islands, item ref: MR 1/2037/48 held at the...
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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