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Sam Debovitch and Gerty Gutman

Leeds, c.1900

Gerty was born in Radom c.1881 and her family moved to Leeds in 1888.

Sam was born in Lithuania in 1879 and he and his mother moved to England in the 1880s.

Gerty and Sam married in Leeds in 1902 and moved to Sheffield, where they founded a large family.

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(left to right)

Gerty Debovitch (née Gutman)

Rose Debovitch (now Isaacs)

Mrs Isaacs (Rose's new mother-in-law)

Taken on the occasion of Rose Debovitch's marriage to Emanuel Isaacs, Sheffield, probably 1934

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The Debovitch Brothers

(left to right)

Nathan Dawson (né Debovitch)

Louis Debson (né Debovitch)

Harry Debson (né Debovitch)

Sydney Debson (né Debovitch)

Jacob (aka Jack) Debovitch

Joseph Dawson (né Debovitch)

Taken on the occasion of Harry Debson's wedding, Southport, 25 October 1950

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The Debson Family

(back row, left to right)

Maurice Jacob (aka Jack) Ballin

Michael Ballin

Louis Debson (né Debovitch)

Sydney Debson (né Debovitch)

Joseph Dawson (né Debovitch)

(middle row, left to right)

Edith Debovitch (née Fisher)

Daphne Debson (née Weinstock)

Emanuel (aka Manny) Isaacs

Frances Dawson (née Field)

Harry Debson (né Debovitch)

Ena Debson (née Huglin)

Miriam Debson (née Goodman)

Gerald Debson

Lily Freedman (née Debovitch)

Jacob (aka Jack) Debovitch

Nathan Dawson (né Debovitch)

(front row, left to right)

Cynthia Debovitch (later Davis)

Lionel Ballin

Ada Ballin (née Debovitch)

Rose Isaacs (née Debovitch)

Hannah Dawson (née Ballin)

Taken on the occasion of Harry Debson's wedding in Southport, 25 October 1950