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Abraham was born on 25 November 1842 in Amsterdam.  He was the son of a Rabbi, Tobias Eliesar Boas and his mother Eva Salomon-Levi. It was a family of distinguished Jewish scholars and ministers who had fled from Poland to Holland late in the seventeenth century. Abraham followed in the family’s footsteps and studied to…

Gabriel was born in London in December 1817, and emigrated with his wife Rosetta to Melbourne in 1853, settling in Adelaide the following year. He first opened a butcher’s shop in Currie Street, later moving to Hindley Street and in 1863 he moved into the wholesale meat trade.  In 1865 he joined M Bagot, a fellow…