Migrants- Paleohori

 

Surname: Mouhtouris 
Name: Panagiotis
Year of Birth:  1933
Father's Name: Apostolos (Paleohori)
Mother's Name:   Maria Ahilara (Paleohori)
Siblings: Dimitrios, Evangelia (Skafida), Konstantinos
Year of Arrival in Australia: 1953
Sponsor:    Panagiotis Chrysomalos (Plomari) 
Married: Evangelia Halaka (Paleohori) 
Children:  Paradisia (Patricia), Maria, Apostolos, Christina 
City of Residence: Sydney
Livelihood: Small Business: The Elysian Cafe (Mendooran, New South Wales)

 

Above: My parents, Apostolos and Maria.

Above Right: In Hay, New South Wales, I worked atr the Garden of Roses Cafe for one year.

 

Above: Hyde Paek, Sydney. With my cousins, Dimitrios Karavas, and Stelios Karambasis. I am in the middle.

Above Right: On my wedding day in Parkes (New South Wales). Next to me is my wife, Evangelia.

 

Above: With my daughter, Paradisia, in Tottenham (central-west New South Wales).

Above Right: After thirty-eight years in Mendooran, where we worked the Elysian Cafe, we decided to leave the town and move to Sydney. The locals gave my wife, Evangelia, and me a farewell party in recognition of our contribution to the town. Our children, Patricia, Maria, Apostolos and Christina- as well as their partners, Bruce and Roger, and our grandchildren, Panagiotis, Thomas, Angela and Victoria- all came up for the occasion.