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Strean, Bessie Miriam

Female 1904 - 1993  (88 years)


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  • Name Strean, Bessie Miriam  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
    Alt. Birth 13 Jun 1902 
    Montreal, QC, Canada 
    Born 25 Apr 1904  Montreal, , Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11
    Gender Female 
    Name Basha Strean 
    Residence 1911  Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: fille 
    Died 23 Jan 1993  Montreal, , Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 9, 10
    Buried Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, Outremont, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    Person ID I18271  Our Family
    Last Modified 21 Feb 2025 

    Father Strean, Max Marcus,   b. 24 Sep 1879, Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Apr 1935, Montreal, , Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Pearson, Rachel Leah Rochelle,   b. 13 Nov 1880, Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Feb 1970, Montreal, , Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 22 Feb 1898  Montreal, , Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16
    • ------ From Source Attached To: Marriage ------
      1898 B'nai Jacob Synagogue.
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    Family ID F6949  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Wolfson, Charles,   b. 25 Dec 1902, Vitebsk, Novosibirsk, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Aug 1998, Montreal, , Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 95 years) 
    Married 10 Jun 1934  Montreal, , Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 14, 15, 16, 17
    Last Modified 21 Feb 2025 
    Family ID F5586  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: fille - 1911 - Quebec, Canada Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Notes 
    • Bessie's dates of birth (25 Apr, 1904) and death appear on her gravesto ne in the Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery. However, on August 31, 1998, I fou nd her birth registration in the (re-registrations of) Montreal civil reco rds. It states: June 13, 1902.

      Was she also BASHA MIRIAM? Check Hebrew name on tombstone. No issue

      January 1995: MAXINE STREAN SIGMAN advised:

      JOAN STREAN has fragmentary notes of a conversation with BESSIE prior to h er trip to RUSSIA (with LESTER LAZARUS) a few years prior to BESSIE's deat h. The following towns were noted: Grodno, Bialystok, Sislovitch (now kno wn as Svisloch, Belarus [Abt. 75 km ESE of Bialystok]), Sohovolia (like ly Sukhopol, Belarus [20 km WNW of Svisloch, Belarus]) See Joshual PEARSO N's file for more detailed information about these towns.

      WolfSON family came from - Vitebsk, Belarus [221 NE of Minsk]

      PEARSON name was formerly PERETZ

      STREAN was STRANSKY
      Stanley Diamond Update - 03/13/2002

      Bessie's dates of birth (25 Apr, 1904) and death appear on her gravesto ne in the Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery. However, on August 31, 1998, I fou nd her birth registration in the (re-registrations of) Montreal civil reco rds. It states: June 13, 1902.

      Was she also BASHA MIRIAM? Check Hebrew name on tombstone. No issue

      January 1995: MAXINE STREAN SIGMAN advised:

      JOAN STREAN has fragmentary notes of a conversation with BESSIE prior to h er trip to RUSSIA (with LESTER LAZARUS) a few years prior to BESSIE's deat h. The following towns were noted: Grodno, Bialystok, Sislovitch (now kno wn as Svisloch, Belarus [Abt. 75 km ESE of Bialystok]), Sohovolia (like ly Sukhopol, Belarus [20 km WNW of Svisloch, Belarus]) See Joshual PEARSO N's file for more detailed information about these towns.

      WolfSON family came from - Vitebsk, Belarus [221 NE of Minsk]

      PEARSON name was formerly PERETZ

      STREAN was STRANSKY
      Stanley Diamond Update - 03/13/2002

      Bessie's dates of birth (25 Apr, 1904) and death appear on her gravesto ne in the Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery. However, on August 31, 1998, I fou nd her birth registration in the (re-registrations of) Montreal civil reco rds. It states: June 13, 1902.

      Was she also BASHA MIRIAM? Check Hebrew name on tombstone. No issue

      January 1995: MAXINE STREAN SIGMAN advised:

      JOAN STREAN has fragmentary notes of a conversation with BESSIE prior to h er trip to RUSSIA (with LESTER LAZARUS) a few years prior to BESSIE's deat h. The following towns were noted: Grodno, Bialystok, Sislovitch (now kno wn as Svisloch, Belarus [Abt. 75 km ESE of Bialystok]), Sohovolia (like ly Sukhopol, Belarus [20 km WNW of Svisloch, Belarus]) See Joshual PEARSO N's file for more detailed information about these towns.

      WolfSON family came from - Vitebsk, Belarus [221 NE of Minsk]

      PEARSON name was formerly PERETZ

      STREAN was STRANSKY

  • Sources 
    1. [S238] Stanley Diamond Update - 03/13/2002.
      Date of Import: Mar 14, 2002

    2. [S378] New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;), Year: 1939; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 6268; Line: 13; Page Number: 66.
      New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
      New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957


    3. [S1841] 1911 Census of Canada, (Name: Ancestry.com. 1911 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.;), Year: 1911; Census Place: Ste. Anne Ward, Montreal Ste Anne, Quebec; Page: 13; Family No: 112.
      1911 Census of Canada
      1911 Census of Canada


    4. [S621] Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc;).
      Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967
      Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967


    5. [S857] UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc;), The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists.; Class: BT26; Piece: 1337; Item: 8.
      UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960
      UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960


    6. [S239] Original Import into Legacy.

    7. [S1657] Original Source File.
      Date of Import: Jul 5, 1999

    8. [S1657] Original Source File (Reliability: 3).
      Date of Import: Jul 5, 1999

    9. [S238] Stanley Diamond Update - 03/13/2002 (Reliability: 3).
      Date of Import: Mar 14, 2002

    10. [S3] U.S. Public Records Index, Ancestry.com, (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007;) (Reliability: 3).

    11. [S171] Drouin (Reliability: 3).
      Entered by court decree, 1938

    12. [S48] Obit, for Elizabeth.

    13. [S172] Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;), Institut Généalogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Author: Gabriel Drouin, comp.
      Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968
      Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968


    14. [S171] Drouin.

    15. [S171] Drouin.
      record for "Albert", hard to decipher

    16. [S171] Drouin, Montréal (Jewish United Congregation), 1911.

    17. [S893] Stanley Diamond.