Migrants- Agia Paraskevi

 

Family Name: Paparellis
Name: Mihail  
Year of Birth:   1929
Father's Name: Ignatios (Agia Paraskevi)
Mother's Name:   Sofia Marzela (Agia Paraskevi)  
Siblings:  Anastasia (Psomadelli)    
Year of Arrival in Australia: 1967
Sponsor:    Epinondas Zontanos (Agia Paraskevi) 
Married:  Ekaterina Kafes (Agia Paraskevi) 
Children:  Anna, Sofia  
City of Residence: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Livelihood: Factory Hand

  

Above: With my sister, Stasa, as young children. Our father, Ignatios, is hiding behind the chair. 

Above Right: A portrait. 

  

Above: Apokries Carnavale in Agia Paraskevi with ‘horianoi’. I am in the middle.

Above Right: With my friends. I am third from the left, while Ioannis Kafes is first from the left. 

 

 Above: Two photographs of me at the ‘panygiri’ of Agios Haralambos. 

 

Above: A portrait taken during my National Service.

Above Right: Agia Paraskevi. L-R: my wife, Katina, Dimitra Paparelli, my daughter, Anna, myself, my daughter, Sofia, Eleni Paparelli and Mihalis. We are celebrating the panygiri of Agios Haralambos in 1964. 

 

Above: With my wife, Katina (Ekaterina).

Above Right: In my vegetable garden at our home in Seven Hills.