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submitted by Alexandra Ermolaeff on 12.06.2003

Dimitri Aroney aged 20 in 1910

Dimitri Aroney (Theodoropoulos), son of Kosmas and Frosini (nee Papadopoulos), was born in the village of Aroniathika on the island of Kythera, Greece in 1890 and died in N.S.W, Australia in 1991, aged 100 years.

Dimitri migrated to Australia in 1906 at the age of 16, and from 1908 ran a restaurant with his brothers Peter (Panayiotis) and Jack (Ioannis) in Murwillumbah, N.S.W.

Dimitri went back to Greece in 1915 to serve in the Greek army during the Asia Minor War and returned to Australia in 1923 with his new wife Stamatia (also from Aroniathika, Kythera). They initially settled in Bundarra, N.S.W, where they ran a café and picture show.

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submitted by Peter Tsicalas on 01.08.2003

Mullumbimby Show 1941

Mr and Mrs A. Caponas with children Arna and Mina. Mullumbimby Show 1941
(Courtesy John Caponas)

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submitted by James Prineas on 05.06.2003

Dimitri and Eleni Prineas

Dimitri Prineas (Dimitrelou) and Eleni Haniotis (Aglacitis) at their wedding in Sydney in 1925.

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submitted by James Prineas on 07.02.2004

Haniotis in Sevastopol (Crimea, Russia)

In about the year 1880 a brother of my great-great-grandmother named Minas Aglacitis migrated from Friligianika to the city of Sevastopol in the Crimea, Russia. His nephew, Panayioti Haniotis, was sent to make his fortune with his uncle. I think this picture depicts Panayoti, his wife Despina, and uncle Minas.

Postscript by Sophia Zantiotis, cousin of the submitter:
My grandmother, Sophia, remembers them coming to visit her grandmother Sophia (Panayiotis' mother). She remembers being told they had a good business and were very wealthy. Our great-great-grandmother, Sophia, returned from visiting them in Russia filled with stories of how wonderful their house and kitichen were and that they had running water.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917 & Panayiotis death they lost everything. My grandmother Sophia tells me Despina came to Kythera and lived off her jewels.

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submitted by James Prineas on 08.02.2004

Wedding 1926

Eleni Haniotis (Aglacitis) and Dimitri Prineas (Dimitrelou), both from Mitata, were married in Sydney in 1926.

Backrow-from left:
1.could be one of Samios (Kouvardas) brothers.
2. Harry Samios.
3. Harry's brother.
4. Antony Prineas, the groom's brother.
5. Jack Cassimaty from Canberra.
6.James Prineas, 1st cousin of bride.
7. Costas ?, brides uncle.
8. ?
Second row-from left:
1.Nick Samios (Kouvardas) His mother is at the end of this row +his father is one of the famous Samios bros above.
2. ?
3. Arthur Psaltis, best man
4. James Prineas, the groom
5. Eleni Haniotis (Aglacitis), the bride
6. Wife of one of the Samios Brothers?
7. Little Nick Samios' mother.
Front row:
Children ?
Young woman seated: Maria, who married a "Pashali" from Woollongong. One of the small girls could be Poppy Samios (Nicks sister).

Does anyone know the names of the other people in the photograph?

Postscript by Sophia Zantiotis, cousin of the submitter:
"My grandmother, Sophia and her brother Jim (no. 6) were the bride's first cousins. Their mother Maria was the bride's father Brettos' sister.
The best man, Arthur Psaltis, was the husband of my grandmother Sophia's eldest sister Grigora Psaltis nee Prineas."