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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 90.

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

hey 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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Pearl Leventhall (later Rowlands)

Leeds, c.1914

Pearl was born in Leeds at the end of 1899 and died there in 1957.

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Dora Frieze (née Leventhall) and Hyman Paish Frieze

Leeds, c. late 1910s

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Ada Cohen (née Leventhall) and Barney Cohen

Nice, France, 7 May 1925

Inscription on reverse reads: "To Pearly & Ephraim from Barney & Ada with love. Nice, mai 7/25"

Probably taken in Leeds, c.1950s

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Wedding of Pearl Leventhall and Ephraim Mark Rowlands (né Rosenstein)

(back row, left to right)

Raie Rosenstein (later Rooms)

Ephraim Mark Rowlands (né Rosenstein)

(unknown Rosenstein cousin)

(front row, left to right)

Josie Cohen (later Conway, then Lindley)

Ronnie Cohen (later Conway)

Pearl Leventhall

Violet Cohen (later Conway, then Jackson)

Leeds, 24 June 1925