Summary

Invitation, in Greek and English, to the wedding of Eric and Faye Mangos in Melbourne on 2 June 1968. Fani Nitsou was born in 1945 in a village near Florina, Greece. In 1964 at the age of 18 she received an opportunity to migrate to Australia to live with distant cousins in Noble Park. She arrived in Melbourne aboard the RHMS Patris in March 1964; during the voyage she met fellow Greek migrant Iraklis Mangos. In 1967 she met Iraklis again they fell in love and in 1968 they married at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Richmond. They visited Greece in 1977 and have never regretted their move to Australia.

Physical Description

Wedding invitation, stiff cream paper folded twice. Paper has a textured finish. Front embossed in gold lettering 'Marriage' and image of a wedding couple and a bird holding an invitation. Inside has text on English and Greek

Significance

The Mangos family collection explores the migration experiences of two Greek people who arrived during the high point of Greek migration to Australia after World War II. The Australian Greek population doubled to 140,000 between 1961 and 1966. Their meeting on the ship and subsequent marriage is a classic migration narrative, as is the theme of chain migration which runs across three generations. It also enables the telling of the pre-migration experiences which partly resulted in the family relocation.

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