Migrants- Plomari
Family Name: | Trantallis |
Name: | Doukas (Louis) |
Year Of Birth: | 1935 |
Father' Name: | Panagiotis |
Mother's Name: | Maria Pitsiladis |
Siblings: | Irene (Sophiadellis), Pelagia (Roumeliotis), Daphne (Hiotellis) |
Year of Arrival in Australia: | 1954 |
Sponsor: | Doukas Trantallis (my cousin) |
Married: | Georgia Voutos (Katastari, Zakynthos) |
Children: | Maria, Madgalene, Panagiotis |
City of Residence: | Sydney |
Livelihood: | Small Business- shops, taxi |
Above Left: My parents, Panagiotis and Maria, with my sister, Daphne.
Above Right: I"I learnt the trade as a barber. My uncle, Vangelis Sanidas' dream was to bring me out
to Australia because Charlesville (in Queensland)- where he lived at the time) did not have a barber. Circa 1949
Above Left: "In 1959, I bought a fruit shop in Chinchilla (Queensland) off Jim Miller (a Kytherean). It was a town
of cattle stations and wheat farms". Louis Trandallis
Above Right: In the Mytilenian Brotherhood of N.S.W's Committee (1981). Louis is standing third from the right.
Louis held a position on the Committee for many years.
Above Left: With his wife, Georgia, at a Mytilenian Brotherhood of NSW Dance (2009)
Above Right: At the same Dance (as above) and with friends. From left, they are: Efstratios Tamvakeras, his cousin
Doukas Trantallis, Dimitrios Liakatos and himself.