Busy Bee Cafe Gunning. c.1936.

Owned by Chris Coroneos.

The children in the photograph are second eldest son, Charles, and only two daughters, Anne (elder), and Matty (youngest daughter).

Chris Coroneos (Christoforos Dimitriou Coroneos) Melasofaos married Melba Comino (Melpomeni Kosmas Kominos) in Goulburn, NSW, on the 3rd July, 1924. A photograph of the wedding party can be viewed at Photography Diaspora, subsection, Weddings and Proxenia. A copy of their wedding certificate can be viewed at History, subsection, Documents.

Soon after they moved to the small town of Gunning, in southern NSW.

They bought the Busy Bee Cafe. They worked hard in the Cafe from 1924 to the end of 1951, when they retired to Sydney because of Chris's ill-health.

Two of their sons carried on the business until 1959 (Charles and George).

They had six children, James, Charles, Annie, Matty, George and Peter.