My people left Lithuania and went to Africa

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Permalink Reply by Max Gerald Heffler on October 10, 2009 at 8:59pm

My grandfather first left Lithuania for South Africa (Johannesburg). He later migrated via Southhampton, England to the U.S. arriving at Ellis Island in New York and settling in Houston, TX. Family remained in South Africa. My wife's family also immigrated from Lithuania to Africa, some becoming farmers in Rhodeia/Zimbabwe.

Permalink Reply by Richie C. on October 10, 2009 at 9:07pm

Max,
With no personal connection at all, I think I could get so caught up in your family history!!

Permalink Reply by Robert Bayer on October 22, 2009 at 6:26am

my great uncle, Max Rose, settled in Oudshoorn south africa and raised ostriches.

Permalink Reply by Richie C. on October 22, 2009 at 11:10am

I can say that i HAVE eaten an ostrich burger!

Permalink Reply by Michael Leon Kantey on December 13, 2009 at 7:47am

my grandfather, Solomon Nathan Kanterowitz (which is how he himself spelled it), went to Johannesburg from Kovno in the 1890s, before buying a hotel in the Southern Cape (Garden Route) coastal town of Mosselbaai in the 1920s> Later he bacame Mayor of Mosselbaai, before moving to Cape Town in the 1930s, eventually dying there in the early 1960s.

Permalink Reply by Richie C. on December 13, 2009 at 8:51am

Very interesting, Michael. Were you able to trace his family back within Lithuania? There are still Kantaravicius in Lithuania today (and not too many of them, it seems), but I don't know if that's just the Catholic spelling.