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ArchivesRe: Last name Cantu started in Italy.
in reply to a message by Evangelina Cantú Carreón
It's my understanding that my family migrated from Italy to Basque before migrating to Mexico. My great-grandfather was Policapo Cantu, and his wife was Guadalupe Trevino. My grandfather was Tomas Cantu, born in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, 1895. He and my grandmother moved to Mission, Texas, 1919 during the Mexican Revolution and eventually moved to Corpus Christi in the 1930s. My grandfather had brown eyes, but his father and some of my grandfather's siblings had blue eyes. As a child, I remember traveling to Monterey, Mexico, to visit my great aunts and uncles. They all had blue eyes.
My grandfather became a successful business owner in Corpus Christi and was a founding member of the Corpus Christi Mexican-American Chamber of Commerce. He owned a meat market. Fun Fact; The first Whataburger hamburgers were made with beef from my grandfather's market. I, too, have traveled to Cantu, Italy—a beautiful area near the Italian Alps.
My grandfather became a successful business owner in Corpus Christi and was a founding member of the Corpus Christi Mexican-American Chamber of Commerce. He owned a meat market. Fun Fact; The first Whataburger hamburgers were made with beef from my grandfather's market. I, too, have traveled to Cantu, Italy—a beautiful area near the Italian Alps.
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