Palavros Comino
Mary Andrew Theodore Palavros Comino mother Malamatania, Father Minas Comino Perligianika Kythera M...
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Because Kythera was settled in such a way that a few dozen original families spawned the majority of present-day Kytherians, almost every branch of every family had a "nickname" to distinguish it from that of others with the same surname.
The nicknames were sometimes simply the genitive form of a christian name (e.g. "Dimitrelou") or derived from the profession of an ancestor (e.g. "Miliotis" = "Miller") or even describe a physical attribute (e.g. "Koutsaftis" or "Tarzan").
This is the section of the website where you can view the island's nicknames and read about which surnames they are associated with and hopefully where they came from as well.
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Mary Andrew Theodore Palavros Comino mother Malamatania, Father Minas Comino Perligianika Kythera M...
View Full MessageThis is the nickname for my mothers family, they are from perlegianika.
View Full MessageAdditional information, which may be of interest to Komninoi, is that all original branches of the f...
View Full MessagePsilos, with the stress on the first "i", means flea. The reason my grandfather Evangelos Comino got...
View Full MessageGalacatou was the nickname of the family of my maternal grandmother Maria Mavromati (nee Comino). I...
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