George North

George Tramountanas was born in Athens, Greece in 1822. He was from a family of shipbuilders/seamen who lived on the Isle of Limnos, but also had family connections to Thessaloniki. It is believed that he had been to Australia on a previous occasion, before coming back with his brother Theodoros, arriving in Pt. Adelaide in 1842. George decided to stay here, but Theodoros journeyed on to Albany in Western Australia, never to be heard of again. The name Tramountanas means north wind from the mountains and before his marriage, George Tramountanas changed his name to George North.

On September 26, 1858, George North married Lydia Vosper, who had arrived from Devon, England, aboard the Caucasian in 1855. Soon after they moved to Port Lincoln where George found work building and repairing stone fences. In 1861 they are recorded living at Green Patch, just north of Port Lincoln, where their two sons George Henry (born in 1861) and Hero Clare (born in 1862) were born at their homestead. They moved again in 1869, purchasing an 80-acre (320,000 m2) block on Wine Shanty Road Little Swamp where George grazed sheep. In the mid-1870s George and Lydia purchased Lot: 24 in the new township of Bramfield, where they lived with their two young sons while George tended to his sheep on his nearby properties.

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