The first known Greeks to Arrive in Australia came in 1829.
The seven Greeks were convicted of piracy by a British naval court, and were sentenced to transportation to the penal colony of New South Wales. They were later pardoned.
Two of the Greeks, Ghikas Bulgaris, known as Jigger Bulgari, and Andonis Manolis, stayed in Australia. Jigger Bulgari married an Irish woman, and they had many children together.
Jigger is buried at Nimmitabel
Pioneer Cemetery. And Andonis Manolis' grave is in the cemetery at Picton.
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| Ghikas Bulgaris, known as Jigger Bulgari, Nimmitabel Pioneer Cemetery. |
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| The grave stone of Antonios Manolis, at Picton's cemetery, NSW |
The first known free Greek settler to Australia was Katerina Georgia Plessos (1809–1907), who came to Sydney with her husband, Major James Crummer, in 1835.
The
couple met on the island of Kalamos, where Crummer was the island's commandant. Katerina, the niece of a friend of Lord Byron, was a refugee from the Greek wars of independence.
