Migrants- Paleohori

 

Family Name: Ganosis
Name: Dimitrios
Year of Birth:   1956
Father's Name: Georgios (Paleohori)
Mother's Name:   Irini Kourahani (Stavros)
Siblings:  Grigorios, Despina (Pavlidis)
Year of Arrival in Australia: 1973
Sponsor: Pandelis Koutsouradis (Paleohori)
Married: Efstathia Verdi (Ambeliko)
Children:  Irini, Ekaterina
City of Residence: Sydney
 Livelihood: Market Hand- Flemington Markets

  

Above: My father, Giorgos, with his sister-in-law, Persephone. The photograph was taken just before Persephone was migrating to Australia in the early 1950's. 

Above Right: As a young boy.


  

Above: The family business, a general store. My grandfather, Grigorios Ganosis- who was a casualty of war in Asia Minor- had a license to buy tobacco in our village. He opened this business in the mid 1930's, and it stayed in the family until the late 1980's.

Above Right: Outside Plomari's High School with my cousin, Spyros Zadellis. This photograph was taken just before I migrated for Australia. Circa October 1973.

   

Above: Dancing at the panygiri of Agios Pandeleimonas at Plomari. From left, we are: Panagiotis Caldellis, Emmanuel Savvas, myself and Grigorios Protogiros (and his uncle).Circa 1973

Above Right: Taken on the same night as the left photograph. From left, we are: Stella Malamas, myself, Vina Koutsouradis, Ioannis Psarianos, Grigorios Protogiros, Dimitrios Koutsouradis.