Migrants- Agia Paraskevi

Family Name: Soropou 
Name: Maria
Year of Birth:   1960
Father's Name: Pater Ignatios (Agia Paraskevi)
Mother's Name:   Elati Emmanouil (Agia Paraskevi)  
Siblings:  Efterpi (Marinou), Ourania, Georgios 
Year of Arrival in Australia: 1977
Sponsor:    Andonios Voudouris(her fiance) 
Married:  Andonios Voudouris (Agia Paraskevi) 
Children:  Athanasios, Marianthi, Elati (Alana) 
City of Residence: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Livelihood: Small Business- Florist

 

 

Above: Portraits of my grandfather, Pater Dimitrios (left), and father, Pater Ignatios (right)

 

Above: With my mother, Elati. 

Above Right: With my mother, Elati, my paternal grandmother, Mary, and my paternal aunt, Maritsa.

   

Above: Off to school. with my siblings. L-R: Efterpi, myself, Ourania and Georgios.

Above Right: End-of-year school activities in primary school.  

 

Above: With Mary Komninaka (right). 

Above Right: With my uncle Nikos Soropos outside Kostas Soropos' baraber shop in Agia Paraskevi. 

Above: School excursion. I am second from the left. c1966.