The first from Patsourakos family who immigrated to Pylos was
Giorgis Patsouros (1800-1890) from Nomia. He went first to Konakia around 1830, as his wife was from there and had landed property near the Monastery of Aghios Georgios.
According to our family tradition, one day around 1840, Giorgis and his wife were cultivating their land and had left their newborn boy wrapped in a piece of cloth ("niaka") on a tree. Suddenly, they realize that a snake was approaching the baby, probably attracted by the smell of the maternal milk. They were terrified to such an extent that they both pleaded Saint George (Aghios Georgios) to : "make the snake go away from the baby and they would also go away from Konakia donating everything they had to the Monastery".
As of a miracle, the snake grew away from the baby and Giorgis, his wife and their boy, keeping their promise to their guardian Saint George, left Konakia, leaving their entire property to the Monastery and migrated to Pylos. Most of the members of the family currently residing in Pylos are his descendants.
Around 1870,
Panagiotis or Potis Patsouros (1858-1952) (with the nickname "Kaousis") from Nomia also migrated to Pylos. The rest of the members of the family in Pylos are his descendants.
Potis' grandfather,
Panagiotis Patsouros (1760-1825) had the nickname "Giatrakakos" ("Doctor"), annomination that still exists for his descendants.
The family tradition says that he acquired his nickname as follows: He was a practical doctor in Mani but also occasional pirate, like most Maniots at the time. In one of his pirate trips he was captured by the Turks and closed bound in a prison in Istanbul.
While «Giatrakakos» was in prison, the Sultan got sick from contamination of an abscess. All his physicians failed to heal him. At last they called Patsouros, as they have heard of his knowledge, and he (by chance?) succeeded to cure the Sultan. As a reward for the treatment of the Sultan he asked,-what else?- his freedom! So the Turks sent him to a deserted coast of Mani. From there, he returned to his village where he continued to exercise his medical profession. He was later killed in a vendetta in Nomia.
His valuable book "On diseases and injuries" was inherited by his grandson Potis and it was the only thing that he had with him when he migrated to Pylos.
