submitted by Kytherian Association LIBRARY, Sydney on 07.01.2012
One of three photographs placed on deposit in the Kytherian Association of Australia, Library, Sydney, by Peter Christianos. Peter lived for many years at 22 Thomas Street Northmead 2132 NSW
submitted by Kytherian Cultural Exchange on 21.12.2011
at the Old-Timers book signing at Manilla on Friday 3rd December, 2011. Photo: Barry Smith Author: Sandy Thorne When Published: December 2011 Publisher: ALLEN & UNWIN Available: All good bookstores, and the web. Description: Format: Paperback - C format Pages: 336 Subject: Biography: general Kytherian Paul Summers (Kalokerinos) is one of the old-timers featured in this book. ...
submitted by Kiriaki Orfanos on 20.12.2011
Mary Patrikiou with her cousin Maria Comino in 1948 wearing traditional Kytherian dress called the Spaleta.
submitted by Kytherian Biographies Project on 20.12.2011
James Castrission. James Castrission was born, 14 March 1982. That makes him only 29 years of age in 2011. But in those 29 years he has crammed a “hell of a lot of living”. His heritage is Kytherian. His paternal grandfather was Jim Castrission, originally from Kastrissianika, and his paternal grandmother was Theothora Coroneos (Belo Kostandinos) from Potamos. Jim Castrission established the famous Niagara Café at Gundagai, in New South Wales. Jim would later sponsor ...
submitted by Kytherian Art World on 18.11.2011
Benefactor of Ten Years of Contemporary Art: The James C Sourris AM Collection - both the Exhibition, (November 2011- Feb 2012), and the book. Details about the book, and James C Sourris AM involvement in art: Author: Queensland Art Gallery When Published: 2011 Publisher: Queensland Art Gallery Available: Good bookshops. Queensland Art Gallery Store, or online: http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/ten_years_of_contemporary_art_the_james_c_sourris_am_collection/publication
submitted by Vasilia Uhrweiss (nee Margetis) on 08.12.2011
with their 1st and second born children: Theo, born 11 January, 1919, & George, born 20th May, 1921. Panagiotitsa's sister, Evangalia Margetis is seated on the left hand side. The photo was taken in either 1921 or 1922. (Georgopoulos is pronounced Yeoryo-poulos). Vassilli (Bill) originally owned the Athenian Restuarant in Castlereagh Street, Sydney, which he would later sell to the Karavousanos family. (Sarfiro, known ...
submitted by Vasilia Uhrweiss (nee Margetis) on 08.11.2011
and first born son, Theo. The photo was taken about 1919. (The surname is pronounced Yeoryo-poulos).
submitted by Vasilia Uhrweiss (nee Margetis) on 03.11.2011
Bretos Margetis, was featured in Life in Australia, and was a founding member of the Kytherian Association of Australia. Evangelia later married Sam Coroneo and moved to Grenfell.
From left to right: Bretos holding son George, standing next to his wife Theodora (nee Lianos). In front Diana and Socrates, younger siblings of Theodora.
Taken in Sydney in 1920's.
Taken in Sydney, in a natural enviroment.
From Left to Right: Minas Margetis, Bretos Margetis, George Margetis (father), and Dimitri (Jim) Margetis. Photograph c. 1903.
submitted by Angelo L Notaras on 24.10.2011
An Obituary for Mitchell Notaras *Variations of this Obituary have appeared in: The Kytherian, Newsletter of the Kytherian Association of Australia, September 2011 The Grafton Examiner, August 6th, 2011 The (Brisbane) Courier Mail, Friday October 14, 2011, page 105 The Sydney Morning Herald, Friday October 21st, 2011, page 14 Eulogy by his twin brother, ...
submitted by Kytherian Cultural Exchange on 12.10.2011
Photograph: Lafcadio Hearn and his wife Setsuko (or Setsu), in Kobe, with their first child, Kazuo, in 1895 Irish Times, Weds, October 12th, 2011 JOHN MORAN in New York NEW YORK’s Japanese community turned out in force at the Nippon Club in Manhattan last week for a lecture on the Greek-born Irish-American writer Patrick Lafcadio Hearn which was delivered by his great grandson, Bon Koizumi. Prof Koizumi and his wife Shoko travelled ...
submitted by James Victor Prineas on 12.10.2011
This biography is part of a collection from "Life in Australia" : The brothers Minas, Kosmas, Emmanuel and Ioannis Andronikou, sons of Damianos Andronikou, hail from Kythera and but a few short years ago settled in Sydney. They are the only Greeks who have devoted themselves to work of a purely commercial nature, under the name of “Andronicus Bros”, raising their tea and coffee business to a prominent position as well as the export and import of major products, ...
submitted by Kytherian Historical Record on 11.10.2011
(1894-1973), coffee merchant, was born on 23 October 1894 at Mylopatamo (Potamós), Kythera, Greece, youngest of eleven children of Damianos Nicholas Andronicus, fisherman, and his wife Vassiliki, née Karidis. The pressure of population on limited resources encouraged migration, as it had done in Greece for centuries. John followed five of his brothers to Australia, reaching Sydney in the Bremen on 10 November 1908. He went to school, initially with no knowledge of English, ...
submitted by Life In Australia on 11.10.2011
From Life in Australia, 1916. View / download a .pdf version of these pages here: Meimarakis_LIA_English_138-139.pdf Entry from Life in Australia (President of the Greek Community in Brisbane) Mild-mannered, straightforward, gentlemanly, full of patriotic sentiments and an inexhaustible source of charity, Mr Emmanuel
submitted by Kytherian Art World on 29.09.2011
standing before a large recumbent sculpture of Aphrodite. Emmanuel Andrew Cavacos was born in Potamos, Kythera, on February 10th, 1885. He emigrated to the United States of America, when he was sixteen years old, and settled in Baltimore, in the suburb of Hampden, where his brother Constantine was living. Another brother Theodore also chose to live in Baltimore. (Theodore was married to fellow Kytherian Pothiti Chlentzos). In Baltimore he formed a close friendship with Charles ...
Emmanuel Andrew Cavacos was born in Potamos, Kythera, on February 10th, 1885. He emigrated to the United States of America, when he was sixteen years old, and settled in Baltimore, in the suburb of Hampden, where his brother Constantine was living. Another brother Theodore also chose to live in Baltimore. (Theodore was married to fellow Kytherian Pothiti Chlentzos). In Baltimore he formed a close friendship with Charles Fitzpatrick, with whom he communicated for many years. Photographs and ...
Pauline (nee, Predelle) and Emmanuel Cavacos are on the left. Emmanuel Andrew Cavacos was born in Potamos, Kythera, on February 10th, 1885. He emigrated to the United States of America, when he was sixteen years old, and settled in Baltimore, in the suburb of Hampden, where his brother Constantine was living. Another brother Theodore also chose to live in Baltimore. (Theodore was married to fellow Kytherian Pothiti Chlentzos). In Baltimore he formed a close friendship with ...
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