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[Gasman]

Well it makes a change to hear about a Cypriot who doesn't know every detail of their ancestry dating back hundreds and hundreds of years!

[eleni]

Thank you for that, I have seen it before & it looks great fun..

Gasman.. well yes the family stories are there, but did they all come from the same villages? What dates? how many children in the family? I wonder how many really know. & not every family member has the same surname! lots have their fathers christian name, my husband surname is not the same as his cousins & their grandfathers name was different again, makes tracing them back as little difficult.

[SKI-preo]

plus I doubt the mouchtari's book details visit from the milk man.

[eleni]

[EricSeans]

Speaking of genealogy it would be good to find some way of tracing the previous owners of my place in Kyrenia before the TC owner. It was a 50-50 share between the husband Stelios Ioannou (?) and his wife Eleni Thermiotti according to a search document I got hold of from the tapu. Did GC women ever carry the name of their home village as a maiden name? I was told that she was from Thermia in Kyrenia. Would that have made her Thermiotti? Or is it just bad handwriting on the old document? Anyway I think he was from Larnaca. Any steers welcome.

[kurupetos]

Speaking of genealogy it would be good to find some way of tracing the previous owners of my place in Kyrenia before the TC owner. It was a 50-50 share between the husband Stelios Ioannou (?) and his wife Eleni Thermiotti according to a search document I got hold of from the tapu. Did GC women ever carry the name of their home village as a maiden name? I was told that she was from Thermia in Kyrenia. Would that have made her Thermiotti? Or is it just bad handwriting on the old document? Anyway I think he was from Larnaca. Any steers welcome.

Did you buy the house from the GC family or are you implying you are a carpet bagger?

[bill cobbett]

Speaking of genealogy it would be good to find some way of tracing the previous owners of my place in Kyrenia before the TC owner. It was a 50-50 share between the husband Stelios Ioannou (?) and his wife Eleni Thermiotti according to a search document I got hold of from the tapu. Did GC women ever carry the name of their home village as a maiden name? I was told that she was from Thermia in Kyrenia. Would that have made her Thermiotti? Or is it just bad handwriting on the old document? Anyway I think he was from Larnaca. Any steers welcome.

Did you buy the house from the GC family or are you implying you are a carpet bagger?

Sure our Eric is an honourable chap.

As to lady's taking on a village name as a nick .... may have been passed down from father's side. Don't think she would have acquired in her own (female) right. Sometimes happens that a chap in a foreign village takes on the old village name as a nick, which is then made into a surname (????????). May explain the popular surnames "Skallioti" (from Larnaca), Varoshioti (from Varosi), Paphiti etc.

[EricSeans]

Speaking of genealogy it would be good to find some way of tracing the previous owners of my place in Kyrenia before the TC owner. It was a 50-50 share between the husband Stelios Ioannou (?) and his wife Eleni Thermiotti according to a search document I got hold of from the tapu. Did GC women ever carry the name of their home village as a maiden name? I was told that she was from Thermia in Kyrenia. Would that have made her Thermiotti? Or is it just bad handwriting on the old document? Anyway I think he was from Larnaca. Any steers welcome.

Did you buy the house from the GC family or are you implying you are a carpet bagger?

Sure our Eric is an honourable chap.

As to lady's taking on a village name as a nick .... may have been passed down from father's side. Don't think she would have acquired in her own (female) right. Sometimes happens that a chap in a foreign village takes on the old village name as a nick, which is then made into a surname (????????). May explain the popular surnames "Skallioti" (from Larnaca), Varoshioti (from Varosi), Paphiti etc.

Cheers Bill. Seems like the wife's dad was from Thermia village right enough. If they're still around it would be good to get the old folks or at least family up. When the checkpoints opened there were some GCs looking around but I wasn't there at the time.

[EricSeans]

Speaking of genealogy it would be good to find some way of tracing the previous owners of my place in Kyrenia before the TC owner. It was a 50-50 share between the husband Stelios Ioannou (?) and his wife Eleni Thermiotti according to a search document I got hold of from the tapu. Did GC women ever carry the name of their home village as a maiden name? I was told that she was from Thermia in Kyrenia. Would that have made her Thermiotti? Or is it just bad handwriting on the old document? Anyway I think he was from Larnaca. Any steers welcome.

Did you buy the house from the GC family or are you implying you are a carpet bagger?

Would I be likely to condemn carpetbaggers and support UN resolutions if I was a carpetbagger myself? No, I bought it from the Turkish Cypriot who inherited it from his mother and father (the former chief of police for Kyrenia under the Brits) who bought it from a Greek Cypriot in 1957. Come and check it out and have a look at all the documents some time.

[SKI-preo]

Interesting what about people with surnames like: Afrikanos, Indianos, Arapakis?