Eva Steen

Timeline

• 1939 - Dr. RALPH STEEN— Miss EVA WOOLFSON The marriage of Dr. Ralph Steen to Miss Eva Woolfson will be solemnised at the Queen’s Park Synagogue, Lochleven Road, on Tuesday, May 30th, at 4.30 p.m.
• 1938 - Councillor Rosslyn Mitchell addressed a conjoint meeting of Ziona last week at the residence of Miss Eva Woolfson, 38 Mansionhouse Road. Miss Beatrice Rosefield occupied the Chair. : . Mr. Rosslyn Mitchell’s subject was “A Gentile looks at the Jewish Problem,” and in the course of his address, which was delivered with the speaker’s customary eloquence, he gave an account of the persecution and tribulations of the Jews throughout the ages. The Jewish race, he said, was the most unpopular in the world, and had always been so, as oppressions from the time of the Egyptian and Assyrjan Empires to the present day horrors now taking place in Germany, show, in spite of all their varied contributions made to civilisation and humanity.
• 1936 - GARNETHILL ZIONA At the meeting of the above group on Sunday last, Miss Eva Woolfson, who has just réturned from a visit to the United States, gave an interesting account of Zionist activities in America. Miss Woolfson visited the Zionist headquarters in New York and was very much impressed by the efficient organisation and magnificent achievments in Palestine of the Hadassah movement.
• 1936 - GARNETHILL ZIONA Miss Fanny Olswang, Chairman of Ziona Group 1., addressed the members of the Garnethill Group at a cultural meeting held on Sunday last at the residence of Miss Eva Woolfson. Miss Olswang spoke on the work of pioneer women in Palestine, of the hardships they endured, of their courage and bravery in the face of adversity, and how through their sufferings the foundations of present day Palestine had been built. Miss Olswang then read some very graphic adventures written by the women themselves, which experiences could not fail to arouse a feeling of admiration for those brave women.
• 1933 - Mrs. Ariel Bension addressed a conjoint meeting of Glasgow Ziona groups at the residence of Miss Eva Woolfson, 38 Mansionhouse Road, on Thursday, 26th March. Miss Marjorie M. Jacobs, M.A., presided.

Family

• Moses Woolfson (1842 - died 1929 in the Gorbals at 87.) m. Pesha Leah Woolfson (1853 - 1894)(known as 'Bessie', nee Tankel, mothers maiden name Jakobson/Jacobson). m. Zarra Woolfson (1852 - 1915) (nee Sussman, first marriage to a Yosif Wolf Gerber(1839 - 1891)) in the Gorbals, Glasgow in 1895
  • Philip Yisrael Shraga ben Moshe Woolfson (born January 15, 1879 - died: November 08, 1948 (69)) m. Clara Woolfson (Gerber)
    • Edward Woolfson (May 20, 1903 - June 05, 1982) m. Adele Woolfson (nee Gottlieb)
      • Michael Julian Woolfson (born 1936 in Pollok - ) Married Linda Miriam Woolfson (nee RASKIN in 1964 in Glasgow (South)).
      • Maurice Woolfson
      • Judith Benita Tankel (nee Woolfson, born 1934)
    • Joseph J Woolfson (born 1898, Gorbals, died 1987, Eastwood and Mearns, mothers' maiden name: Gerber) married Rose Woolfson (nee Lazarus) in 1924 in Milton.
      • Ida Joyce Caplan (b 1927, Cathcart) m. Montague A. Caplan, 29 June 1948 in Cathcart at Queens Park Synagogue.
    • Hyman Woolfson (1900 - 1983); m. Elfreda Woolfson (also 'Freda', nee Goldstone (1914 - 1988)).
    • Ethel (Ettie) Jacobs;
    • Matilda (Tilly) Bernstein;
    • Solomon (Solly) Woolfson (born 1907, died 1991 at 84 in Eastwood and Mearns.) m. Freda Cohen Woolfson (born 1912, died 2006 at 94 in Eastwood and Mearns)(nee Edwards) in Cathcart in 1933
      • Evelyn Thelma Berlow (born 1942, died 2021)
    • Louis Woolfson (1910 - 1993) Married Eileen Woolfson (nee Schottlander) (1916 - 2017 at 101 years in Eastwood and Mearns, mothers maiden name Joseph.);
      • Alma Rosalind Wolfson (nee Woolfson)(b 12 May 1942) Married Leslie Wolfson (born June 1929 in Pollokshields - died January 2016 at 86, Eastwood and Mearns).
      • Charles Alexander Woolfson (b 27 October 1946)
    • Abraham (Abe) Arnold Woolfson;
    • Eva Steen m. Ralph Steen/Romiel Steinacre in Glasgow in 1939.

See also

• Woolfson family