He was a bright and lively child with wide interests from an early age. In 1859 the family moved to Yackandandah in north-eastern Victoria where Isaac attended in turn a small private school and the state school. She was an ambitious and dominating woman who exercised a very strong influence over her first-born. Rebecca, who was London-born, had a powerful mind, wide-ranging intellectual interests, and the capacity to understand and discuss complex matters. He married Rebecca in 1849 and they migrated to Victoria in 1854, arriving in September. Alfred Isaacs had been born in what was then Russian Poland, which he left in the 1840s and settled in London. Two sisters and a brother survived infancy. Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs (1855-1948), governor-general, judge and politician, was born on 6 August 1855 at Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, eldest of six children of Alfred Isaacs, tailor, and his wife Rebecca, née Abrahams. National Archives of Australia, A8746:KN9/7/79/7
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