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Rosa Toscano Marriage Records
Sebastiano Straniero was born in Militello, Sicily around 1886. He arrived in America around 1909.
On November 24, 1918, he married Maria DePasquale.
Less than two years later, 34-year-old Maria, pregnant with their first child, contracted a bacterial infection of her uterus and died on July 22, 1920.
The unborn child did not survive.
A year later, Sebastiano married Rosalia "Rosa" Toscano. Rosa was born in Sicily in 1898.
She was pregnant with their first child when Sebastiano was murdered. To read about the sensationalized newspaper coverage of this tragic event, click here.
On October 14, 1922, the widowed Rosa gave birth to what would have been their first child, Sebastiana "Ann" Straniero.
Sebastiano had a younger brother named Nicolo Straniero who was born in Militello on April 1, 1893.
He came to America in 1914. Four years after Sebastiano's murder, Nicolo married his dead brother's wife. He and Rosa were married in Manhattan on April 25, 1926.
He bacame Ann's father. Nicolo and Rosa had seven more children: another daughter and six sons.
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