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Re: Last name Cantu started in Italy.
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I find this very interesting
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Part of my family in Monterrey Mexico, part in San Antonio Tx. The Cantu Treviño, children, one of which is my Grandmother is blond hair blue eyed as well as my father and his siblings. Dad had dark hair blue eyes. Most of my cousins and Great cousins have blue or green eyes. Late 1800’s a Juana Cantu married Fernando Treviño Treviño. In Monterrey. Anyone related to this Cantu family?
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My Grandfather and his entire family were born in Monterrey MX, we also have family in San Antonio. Most of our family have the green eye trait.
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my family is from General Teran NL Mex
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You are probably related to me. My father Cosme Sanchez Cantu was from Gen Teran NL too. His mother Juana Cantu married
Antonio Sanchez in 1910. My grandmother Juana Cantu's parents were first cousins Jose and Victoriana Cantu.
Unfortunately, my grandmother's parents disapproved of the marriage. My father said he never met his grandparents, although he knew who they were, as he often saw them shopping in General Teran. I have seen pictures of my grandmother
Juana Cantu. She was a tall women with green eyes and white skin. email: icantu896@gmail.
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Hello, I'm actually assisting my wife Cynthia Hernandez Conant, who is the daughter of (Antonio Cantu) of Dallas Texas, who was born in Monterey Mexico, and also Antonio' mother was a Trevino.
I will get more info regarding her Cantu bloodline, she will be very interested to learn more about her family, ad she knows very little information..
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Hi, I am from Monterrey. My father´s name is Fernando Cantú Treviño and as you mention, the physical characteristics in the family are the same you mentioned. He was from a little town called Mamulique, in Salinas Victoria, Nuevo León, México.
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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.
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Wow crazy! My grandpas (moms dad) name is Fernando Treviño Cantu!
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I'm 99.9 % sure my wife's Biological father Antonio Cantu was from Mamulique, he was definitely born in Monterey Mexico, and his mother's maiden name is Trevino. You could be my wife's prima. I will talk to her and get more information, because I am also a research person for my family, who live in Texas ,Louisiana, and California. My wife's name is Cynthia Hernandez/Conant. Her mom's last husband ,adopted my wife ,and gave her the last name of Hernandez, but she is actually ( Cantu)..
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My mother's last name is Cantu and she was born in San Juan Texas but raised in General Bravo N.L. We were raised in Pharr, Texas which is the Rio Grand valley in Texas, millions of Cantu's there....I lived in Spain for 16 years and never saw a Cantu. The name does not exist in Spain, it is from Italy...
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You are absolutely correct. There are no Cantu’s in Spain because they fled. They were Jewish and were persecuted for their religious beliefs. When I was in Madrid I went to a place that sold coat of arms for surnames and they told me Cantu would not be found in Spain because it was not a authentic Spanish surname. They settled in Italy when they fled their mother land then some settled in Spain briefly than fled to Mexico settling in Tamaulipas and Nuevo León, Mexico. That’s what my research shows.
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Very interesting, have you found any other information
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My name is Ambria Cantu and I'm from San Antonio
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