I am looking for any information about the Tsalikis Family from Chios . Dimitrius settled in the UK where his name was changed to Zalick . I have been told the Tsalikis family owned the village where they lived including the Church .
Dimitrius is registered in the UK as Demetric on his marraige certficate his fathers name was George both were Seamen MS .
Thanks
michelle

Hi Michelle,
my dad's name was Demitri, and his father's name was
George Tsalikis, as far as I know they came from the island
of Samos. I don't know if there is any link, or what you are looking for, but I thought I'd send you this post to see what you think.

Regards Mary

My Grand dad was Demetrius from the Island of Chios, not sure when, beleave to be late 1800 my father was born in 1913, we were from Newport Wales, as most Greece we travel I live in El Cajon California USA, left Newport in 1975,,
Check back I will get with my sister and get you some name,
my father was Peter Pandalis.

My name is Kathy and my father.... Demetrios Tsalikis is from Chios. We do not know anyone else from Chios (other than his brother) with that last name-- and we visit Chios very often. I am excited to possibly find relatives!? My father is from the town of Vrondatos... but I know nothing about owning a town or church. I would be very interested in hearing from you.

hello i have a picture of demetric .
i have tried emailing you but your emails are locked .
i am also related to demetric he married mary matilda jeffries aged 26 in 1905 .
if anyone would like a picture email me at welsh_bull33@hotmail.com . maybe you have a simular picture .

I am doing the Zalick family tree, Demetri was born in Chios in 1884 and ran away to sea aged 12. He ended up in Newport, where descendants of the family still live. Demetri married Mary Matilda Jefferies and had 11 children, one dying in infancy.

Hello,

Just to add that my Tsalikis family comes from the Cyclades island of Sifnos/ Siphnos, going back at least 3 generations. They were ship owners and merchants. Btw, does anybody know if the name "Tsalikis" has any meaning in any language? Why was it changed to "Zalick" in the UK (which does not sound Greek at all, but not English either??).

the surname was changed because when my great granfather moved to the uk . british people could not say Tsalikis
so to make it easy he changed it to zalick.
he to was a sea man but he was said to have come from chios .

Even today, in the UK people cannot say "Tsalikis" so I definitely believe that!

Also the English today think that "Tsaliki" (the female surname) is Romanian or Polish, which is pretty annoying as far as I am concerned. This is why I found it interesting from your messages that not only "Tsalikis" became "ZaliCK", changing the spelling completely, but also, as the user Michelle Martin writes, the name "Demetrios" instead e.g. of "Dimitri", became "DimitriC".

This to me is a kind of Slavic-isation, to say so, of our original family name. This makes me wonder 1) what was in the mind of the UK officers who made the change and 2) whether, at the end of the day, if surnames can suffer such arbitrary changes, they are a reliable indicator of family ties or ethnicity (I now tend to think not).

Finally, yesterday I found this piece of information about the use of "Tsalikis" . Have a look at Angelos Levidis and Dimitrios Levidis!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levidis_family