Diaspora Vintage Portraits/ People

see a chapter of Cassimatis family history in the oral history section. A chapter of Cassimatis family history

See a chapter of Cassimatis family history in the History - Oral history sub-section.

Peter Venardos - parachoukli - Yaloupos aged 82, in his lounge room, Gunnedah, NSW, Australia, April, 2004. Peter Venardos, was born in Ayia Anastasia, Kythera. He left as a 12 year old, migrating to Australia. Like so m...

Peter Capsanis - From, Images of Home, Muvri Xenetia Peter Capsanis "Old Peoples' Home", Potamos, Kythera, 1990. Born in 1906, Peter left Kythera for Australia at the age of fifteen. After undertaking cafe work in such t...

Dr John Malos 1927-1995 Brought up in Mackay, North QLD. John Malos beame an internationally reknowned physicist. For more detail on his life-history refer to section - People - sub-section - High Achievers, at kythera-i...

Frank Zantiotis, Brisbane, Australia This photographic portrait is held at the National Library of Australia, along with an ORAL HISTORY interview. Go to, http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an11206296 There are numerous Kytherian...

Sydney NSW Australia c 1925 includes 'Beatty'Calliope Phacheas/Fatseas - back row left side of photograph. The brothers Panagiotis and Theophanis Leousi formed this musical group c 1920. The Leousi brothers, Theodore and...

Sophia Phacheas(nee Deftereon),George Phacheas and child 'Beatty'Calliope Phacheas Kurri Kurri NSW c1908

The Minoan Bronze Head from Kythera in the Altes Museum in Berlin. A great place to view the rest of Greece!

Taken c 1880 - does anyone recognize the uniform. Sons of Emmanuel and Caliope Phacheas(Fatseas) George Phacheas 1855-1942 Peter Phacheas 1860-1934 Village unknown

Born Kurri Kurri NSW 1904-daughter of George and Sophia(nee Defteron)Phacheas. Married Theo Psaros 1927.d 1979

Peter Phacheas (b c1861) a pioneering Kytherian who opened the first oyster saloon Inverell 1899 - Son of Emmanuel and Calliope Phacheas

c 1927 Theo Psaros(b1898) son of Dimitris Psaros Skouladrianika.Married Calliope(Beatty) Phacheas Lived at Inverelll NSW Australia.

Lafcadio Hearn's biography has been related extensively both on the Message Board, and as a separate entry in Vintage Portraits/People. His mother, Rosa Antonia Tessima Cerg Kassimatis (Cassimatis) was born in Kythera in...

Lafcadio Hearn 1850-1904 Rosa Antonia Tessima Cerg Kassimatis (Cassimatis) was born on Kythira Island, in 1823. She married the Irish Surgeon Charles Hearn and had three children to him. Rosa Kassimati Hearn's second chi...

James Daniel Hearn in Connecticut -- 1876 Rosa Antonia Tessima Cerg Kassimatis (Cassimatis) had three children to the Irish surgeon Charles Hearn. In 1856 before marrying Greek-Italian Giovanni Cavallini* of Cerigo Islan...

Anna Papadopoulou, now Kominou, with her husband Peter and children Kali-Kay (in fathers arms), Georgia-Gina and Nikos-Nick, in Warialda New South Wales. Their youngest child, Maria, was to be born a year later.

Anna Papadopoulou, now Anna Kominou, on her engagement to Peter Kominos in Australia at the age of seventeen, Peter being twenty four. Her sister also married a Kominos, however he and Peter were not, it seems, related.

Anna Papadopoulou begins her life in Aroniadika, here at the age of two (right) with Mother Kali Papadopoulou (previously Galani) and sister Chrissa.

Maria kindly allowed me to publish this photo in the interest of identifying the culprits. The very handsome bloke sitting on the ground at left is the spitting image of my yet unborn father. His father, George Spiro Tsi...