Can anyone link into this family, originally from Zagare and spread in England, South Africa and now New Zealand.
Ber Zavel Ber, Bear, Milton,  Kalusky, Aronson, Lazerson, Lessik/Lissak/Lessik
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From: Dr Chris Milton <chris.milton@ xtra.co.nz
To: craig.coussins@btinternet.com
Sent: Wednesday, 15 July, 2009 1:56:08 AM
Subject: Ber of zagare

Dear Craig,

I am writing just on an off chance that you know or may come across a branch
of my family in researching yours.

I know that the surname "Ber" is not uncommon but who knows there might be a
link. I see that one of your forebears (no pun intended!) was an Abraham Ber
whom I imagine might have come from Zagare. My great great grandfather was
Ber Zavel Ber and he came from Old Zagare. He was born in about 1830 - 1840,
was a tailor, and left Zagare in the early 1880s settling for some years in
Manchester. Some of the family went on to South Africa and Ber Zavel Ber
(also known at times as Samuel Bear, Solomon Beare and affectionately in the
family as Berazava) went on to Johannesburg where he died sometime between
1916 and 1919 (different family accounts give different dates). Ber Zavel
Ber was married to Ita Ber (nee Aronson) and they had at least 7 children:
Tirza Bassa Ber (later Lazerson, who settled in Manchester before the rest
of the family and achieved greatly in the textile/lace industry), Feiga Ber
later Lesik/lessik, Sarah Ber later Ginsburg, and unknown daughter Ber who
ran away and died in childbirth in Paris, Harry Beare, Chaim Beare and my
great grandfather Jack Beare (originally Jacob Ber, later John Frank Beare).

If you have or should come across any connections I would really appreciate
if you could let me know.

Just so you know I live in New Zealand but was born in South Africa. I am a
Clinical psychologist & Jungian Psychoanalyst. I am a member of JGSGB and
enjoy your contributions to Shemot.

Kind regards
Chris Milton

Hi Chris.
Very  nice to hear from you.

My tree would probably have some connection with your side of the family but I would not know at this stage where that would be. Here is the menu page where you can browse around the information I have on Zagare , photographs of Zagare and some family information. www.coussins.org/Menu.htm <http://www.coussins.org/Menu.htm>  
South Africa and New Zealand have a family connection as many of us, including myself, seem to go there at some stage. I emigrated to SA when I was 18 but left to first go to Israel and the back to the UK when I was in my early 20's
 
However, my great Uncle Hyman did go to New Zealand to meet family members in or around the early 1920's and , as a tailor, found a position there but his wife did not want to leave her family in Glasgow,
 
The Manchester RaKussins became well established but I would not at this stage know if  the family Ber and Beare would be linked by this stage. Maybe they were., Until we have other family trees to read from that would be hard. We could only link back through the trees if we could find them. I am sure that Abraham Ber is the common link.
 
You can find trees here: http://www.coussins.org/Family/Coussinstree.htm <http://www.coussins.org/Family/Coussinstree.htm>  

There is more information including the Leeds and Manchester trees here:
www.itsourfamily.co.uk <http://www.itsourfamily.co.uk/>  

On a different note, my great uncle was head of Psychology at Brighton University so apparently near your  profession.


I will let you know if we are fortunate in finding the link to Ber Chris. It all depends on finding the trees and I have to wait until someone else makes that link. Meantime, with your permission., I am  making a possible links page outlining the similar kinds of material that you have given me and hopefully these snippets will give someone a key to a link that opens up a tree connection to each other. There are people all over the world working on their family trees and they may find that missing link.
Kind regards,
Craig.