Rebecca Levy Tobias

Rebecca Levy was born in Liverpool and, in her late teens or early twenties, she married fellow Liverpudlian Tobias Tobias. Around the time that their fifth child was born, Tobias left for New York where he was joined by the rest of the family four years later. Two more, American-born, children would follow. Of the seven Tobias children, four would marry children of Harmon and Frances Isaacs Hendricks: Fanny Tobias married Uriah Hendricks in 1826, Harriet Tobias married Henry Hendricks in 1829, Henry Tobias married Roselane Hendricks in 1839, and

Isaac Alfred Tobias married Hermione Hendricks in 1847. Daughter Amelia married painter Jacob Hart Lazarus who painted many of the portraits in this collection.

Rebecca Levy Tobias

c. 1870