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Leah Leventhall (née Samuel(s)) - back

Hanna Samuel(s) (née Schelinski) - left

Amelia Rebecca (aka Becky) Leventhall (née Ark) - right

Amelia Leventhall (later Brown) - front

Outside the Leventhall family home, 80 Grafton Street, Leeds

c.1920

Hanna was born in Germany or Prussia c.1833 and her husband, Heinrich, came to London in 1849.

The couple had a number of children there in the 1850s and 1860s, before they moved to Leeds

sometime between 1872 and 1881. Hannah died in 1925, aged about 92.

Leah was born in London in 1863 and married Joseph Leventhall in Leeds in 1886.

They had nine children in 15 years, before Joseph's death in 1901 from appendicitis. Leah died in 1922.

See evidence of Heinrich's arrival in London in 1849

See more photos of the Leventhall family

Read transcriptions of Joseph Leventhall's naturalisation papers from 1895-6

Read about the death of the young Sophia Leventhall in 1905

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Joseph Samuel(s)

c.1910

Joseph was born in Leeds in 1861 and died there in 1927,

having worked his whole life in the cobbling trade with his sister, Rachel.

This appears to be a pen-and-ink drawing, probably drawn from a photograph. It is encased in a gold-coloured frame, approximately 1 cm deep, with a plastic and velvet back. On the base is a small ring, suggesting the frame was intended to hang on a wall. However, the drawing was put into the frame upside down, so the ring is at the bottom.

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Rachel Samuel(s)

With her nephew Henry Leventhall (left) and Pearl Rowlands (née Leventhall, right)

Leeds, 1938

Rachel was born in Leeds c.1867 and died there in 1942,

having worked her whole life in the cobbling trade with her brother, Joseph.