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Emmanuel : Biographies : Gregory Emmanuel "Nisiotis" (1875 - 1977)
Gregory Emmanuel "Nisiotis" (1875 - 1977)
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Surname: |
Emmanuel "Nisiotis" |
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Name: |
Gregory |
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Middle name: |
none |
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Father: |
Emmanuel "Nisiotis", Constantine |
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Mother: |
Paleologou, Eleni |
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Birth: |
October 5, 1875 - Tenedos, Ottoman Empire |
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Death: |
May 24, 1977 (102 years old) - Athens, Greece |
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Siblings: |
Anthi (b.1854), Nicholas (b.1855), Anna (b.1861), Afroditi (b.1866), Marigo (b.1869), Haralambos (b.1873), Evgenia (b.1877) |
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Spouse: |
Perrou, Irini D. |
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Marriage: |
September 20, 1920 - Tenedos, Ottoman Empire |
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Children: |
Eleni (b.1922), Constantine (b.1923), Dimitri (b.1924), Nicholas (b.1925) |
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This is Grandfather Gregory, the seventh of eight children. He attended the Grand National Academy in Istanbul, graduating in 1894. Sailed to Romania on the family's sailing ship, the Agia Trias, to sell a cargo of wine. In the early 1900s he left Tenedos and worked as an engineer for the Suez Canal. He was one of the first Greek settlers in East Africa (early 1900s), when Tanzania was still a German colony called Deutsch-Ostafrika. There he became involved in a transportation venture (c. 1908) using a steam locomotive (Tinga-Tinga) to haul cargo between Voi in Kenya and Moshi in Deutsch-Ostafrika. When that venture failed he worked as a subcontractor on the Dar-es-Salaam - Kigoma railway line in 1919. He bought the Lambo and Chombo farms near Moshi, Tanganyika, 1920. That same year he married Irini D. Perrou (she was 24, he was 45 years old) and built his house at Chombo. He went on a short trip to Greece in 1937, to visit his wife and children, who were there since 1933 so the children could attend school. In 1955 he was awarded the Silver Cross of the Order of King George the First. He became president for life of the Hellenic Expatriate Community of Tanganyika. Grandfather retired in 1960 and moved to Athens, Greece, in 1964. He passed on in Athens, in 1977 at 102 years of age. To read about the derivation of his surname see the story.
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