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Rebecca Isaacs (Abrahams)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: London, England, London, England, United Kingdom
Death: August 27, 1912 (89)
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Place of Burial: Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Barnett Abrahams and Elizabeth Abrahams
Wife of Alfred Isaacs
Mother of Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs; Caroline Carrie Isaacs; John Alfred Isaacs and Hannah Isaacs
Sister of Coleman Abrahams; Woolf Abrahams; Elizabeth Abrahams; Michael Barnett Abrahams; Rachel Abrahams and 1 other
Half sister of Louis Barnett Abrahams; Michael Barnett Abrahams and Priscilla Jacobs

Immigration to Australia: 10 Sep 1854 with spouse
Ship: Queen of the Seas from Liverpool to Melbourne
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About Rebecca Isaacs

  • Rebecca Abrahams was born in London on 11 May 1823. Alfred Isaacs had been born in what was then Russian Poland. A tailor, he left Russian Poland and settled in London in the 1840s. He married Rebecca Abrahams on 29 August 1849 and they migrated to Victoria, departing from Liverpool in June 1854 and arriving in Melbourne in September 1854, on board of the "Queen of the Seas", where they moved into a cottage and shopfront in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne where their son Isaac Alfred Isaacs was born on 6 August 1855. Their son Isaac Alfred Isaacs became a Justice of the High Court of Australia [1906 - 1930], Chief Justice [1930 - 1931] and then became the first Australian born Governor-General of Australia [1931 - 1936].
  • http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/isaacs-rebecca-14106 Isaacs, Rebecca (1823–1912) Our Melbourne correspondent telegraphed last night:—The death took place to-day of Mrs. Rebecca Isaacs, widow of Mr. Alfred Isaacs, of Auburn, and mother of Mr. Justice Isaacs, of the High Court bench, who is now in Sydney. Mr. John A. Isaacs, solicitor, of Melbourne, is another son, and Mrs. S. Harris and Miss Carrie Isaacs are daughters of the deceased lady. With her husband, Mrs. Isaacs came to Australia in the early part of 1854, and settled first in Melbourne, where Mr. Justice Isaacs was born. The family afterwards removed to the North-Eastern District, where the other three children were born. The two sons, Mr. Justice Isaacs and Mr. J. A. Isaacs, afterwards, represented that district in the Legislative Assembly.
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Rebecca Isaacs's Timeline

1823
May 11, 1823
London, England, London, England, United Kingdom
1855
August 6, 1855
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1861
1861
Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia
1863
February 6, 1863
Yackandandah, VIC
1912
August 27, 1912
Age 89
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
August 27, 1912
Age 89
Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia
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Yackandandah, VIC, Australia