Migrants- Vassilika

 

Family Name: Zafiriou 
Name: Nikolaos 
Year of Birth:      1941
Father's Name: Dimitrios (Vassilika) 
Mother's Name:   Vasiliki Zervou (Vassilika)
Siblings:  Emmanouil, Artemis (Arhonditsi), Georgios, Ekaterina (Pandeli) 
Year of Arrival in Australia: 1965
Sponsor:    Evlotina Agritou (Agiassos) 
Married:  Evlotina Agritou (Agiassos)
Children:  Vasiliki, Dimitrios
City of Residence: Sydney, Australia
Livelihood:  Small Business- dressmaking, and factoryhand, and waiter

 

 

Above: My mother, Vasiliki, at a young age. c1928

Above Right. Mytilene, 1932. A group of Vassilikians. My father, Dimitrios, is standing third from left, while his brother, Prokopios, is standing first from right. 

  

Above: My brother, Georgios (left) and me. c1952. 

Above Middle: With friends. L-R: Parthenis Alanis, myself and Nikolaos Kaniamos. 

Above Right: Athens. With Nikolaos Kalogirou (right). I lived in Athens since I was fourteen years old. 

  

Above: A portrait in the Navy. 

Above Right: With my fiance, Evlotina Agritou. This photograph was taken only hours after I arrived in Sydney. 

 

Above: Two photographs of where I worked over the years. On the left, I am working at British Motor Company- better known as 'Morris'- and I am on the left. On the right, I am working as a waiter at the Sydney Olympic Club. I am second from the right.  

 

Above: With my wife, Evlotina, our children, Vasiliki and Dimitrios, and my aprents, Dimitrios and Vasiliki. 

Above Right: Out in Athens at the Tsitsifoes Night Club. L-R: My brothers-in-law, Efstratios Pandelis and Georgios Arhonditsis; my sister, Artemis; my wife, Evlotina; myself; and my sister, Ekaterina.