Migrants- Agiassos

 

Family Name: Smyrnios
Name: Irini 
Year of Birth:   1938
Father's Name: Nikolaos 
Mother's Name:   Evlotina (Hatzisavva) 
Siblings:  Efstratios, Maria 
Year of Arrival in Australia: 1956
Sponsor:    Efstratios Smyrnios (my brother)
Married: Dimitrios Liakatos (Agiassos)
Children:  Maria, Efstratios 
City of Residence: Sydney
Livelihood:  Small Business- service station

  

Above: My mother's family. From left, they are: my mother's sister, Theophili; her father, Nikolaos; my mother, Evlotina. Sitting is her mother, Maria.

Above Middle: My mother, Evlotina, with myself, my brother, Efstratios, and my sister, Maria.

Above Right: With my brother, Efstratios.

 

Above: Our social group (1956). Standing from left are: Peter Demirgellis, Efstratios Smyrnios, Dimitrios Liakatos (my future husband), Efstratios Sousamlis and Grigorios Simellis. Sitting are: Maria Savvas, myself and Hariklia Savvas.

Above Right: My brother, Efstratios, who was only fourteen when we migrated to Australia.

 

Above: With my husband, Dimitrios Liakatos.

Above: At our family business- our service station in Marrickville, Sydney.