Migrants- Paleohori

Family Name: Markou
Name: Mersina
Life:   1946- 1997
Father's Name: Panagiotis (Paleohori)
Mother's Name:   Maria Halaka (Paleohori)
Siblings:  Sophia (Protogero), Irini, Georgios
Year of Arrival in Australia: 1955
Sponsor:    Kostantinos Markou Her uncle)
Married: Spyridonas Malamas (Paleohori)
Children:  Eleni, Maria, Irini
City of Residence: Sydney
 Livelihood: Small Business- shops

 

Above: Her parents, Maria and Panagiotis.

Above Right: Her mother, Maria (left), her maternal grandmother, Sultana Kamateros and her maternal auntie, Dimitra.

  

Above: Her father, Panagiotis, with his mother, Maria Markou (nee: Loupos)

Above Right: Sydney in the late 1950's; with friends. Mersina is second from the left.

 

Above: At the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church (Sydney), With her husband, Spyridonas, on their wedding day (1962).

Above: The Malamas family. With her husband, Spyridonas, and their daughters, Eleni, Irini and Maria.