Migrants- Paleokipos
Family Name: | Bloukou |
Name: | Amanthia |
Year of Birth: | 1939 |
Father's Name: | Neoklis (Paleokipos) |
Mother's Name: | Maria Roditou (Paleokipos) |
Siblings: | Efstratios, Nikolaos, Eleni (Koukari), Konstantinos, Calypso (Malanga), Adrianna (Papadimitriou), Evdoxia (Alexandris) |
Year of Arrival in Australia: | 1963 |
Sponsor: | Konstantinos Bloukos (my brother) |
Married: | Petros Gavanas (Papados) |
Children: | Elli, Georgios |
City of Residence: | Sydney |
Livelihood: | Small Business- Service Stations |
Above: My parents, Neoklis and Maria, on their wedding day.
Above Right: A photograph of me as a young girl.
Above: Working on our family's argalio.
Above Right: With my sisters on Eleni's wedding day. L-R: Eleni, Calypso, Adrianna, Evdoxia and me.
Above: Ayr, North Queensland, 1963. With my sister Adrianna's children, Dimitrios, Panagiotis and Nikolaos.
Above Right: Hyde Park, Sydney, 1963. With Stella Kouvangeli and her son, Panagiotis.
Above: With my husband, Petros Gavanas, on our wedding day.
Above Right: With my husband, Petros, and our two children, Elli and Georgios. The photograph was taken in Ayr, North Queensland, where we ran a Golden Fleece service station for three years.
Above: At my grandson Zachary's baptism: with my husband, Petros, Amanthia; my daughter, Elli- who is holding my grandson, Zachary; and my son-in-law, Kostas.
Above Right: Another photograph from my grandson Zachary's baptism: with the proud godparents- my son, Georgios, and daughter-in-law, Cathy- with my grandchildren, Petros, Efstratios and Alexandros.