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Richa Franks

Richa Franks[1]

Female - Yes, date unknown

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  • Name Richa Franks  [2, 3, 4
    Gender Female 
    Name Rachel Franks  [2
    Reference Number 443 
    _UID BB2B05868EA0491C8C1162B7A57B9ECF476D 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I443  aojd-demo
    Last Modified 11 Nov 2011 

    Father Jacob Franks,   b. 1687-1688, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jan 1769, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Bilhah Abigaill Levy,   b. 26 Nov 1696, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 May 1756, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Married 1712  New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Family ID F152  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Abraham De Fries,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Aft 1789  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Last Modified 11 Nov 2011 
    Family ID F175  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • (Research):AJLLJ Portrait Database 5 Aug 2011

      Previously identified as Phila Franks, the young woman represented in this portrait is now believed to be her sister Richa. Although fewer details are available from Richa's life than some of her siblings, we do find some descriptions of her from around this time in the letters of her mother, Abigail Levy Franks, to her brother Naphtali in England. For instance, in 1834 Abigail wrote her son, "Your Sister Richa has bin out of town this three weeks at huntington & Oyster Bay. She will Not be at home this fortnight. She has Learned to ride horseback and intends to come down in that Manner." Skeptical of her daughter's intentions to ride from their property on Long Island to Manhattan, she continues, "but I hardly believe She rides well enough to make a Jurney of fourty Mile."
      The following year she wrote, "Your sister Richa has begun to learn the harpsichord and playas three Very good tunes in a months Teaching." She then goes on to write, "Richa is Like'd by all that know her. And I hope she will Allways have that happyness."
      Like the rest of her family, Loyalists who found it uncomfortable or impossible to remain in America after the Revolution, Richa moved to England where she married Abraham de Fries. [9]

  • Sources 
    1. [S285] AOJD & Heritage Muse, Inc., David M. Kleiman, (AOJD-online.net. Heritage Muse, Inc. 165 West End Ave. New York, NY 10023 [email protected]).

    2. [S4] FAJF-Stern, Rabbi Malcolm Stern, (3rd edition updated and revised. n.c.: Genealogical Publishing Company for the American Jewish Archives, 1991.), PG. 75 FRANKS I (1) (Reliability: 3).
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    3. [S4] FAJF-Stern, Rabbi Malcolm Stern, (3rd edition updated and revised. n.c.: Genealogical Publishing Company for the American Jewish Archives, 1991.), PG. 75 FRANKS I (1) (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S3] AMLAJA, Judith E. Endelman, (unpublished manuscript), CHAPTER 5 PG 9 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S4] FAJF-Stern, Rabbi Malcolm Stern, (3rd edition updated and revised. n.c.: Genealogical Publishing Company for the American Jewish Archives, 1991.), PG. 154 LEVY I (1) (Reliability: 3).
      QUAY 3

    6. [S4] FAJF-Stern, Rabbi Malcolm Stern, (3rd edition updated and revised. n.c.: Genealogical Publishing Company for the American Jewish Archives, 1991.), PG. 154 LEVY I (1) (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S7] Adeline Moses Loeb & Carl M. Loeb, Kathy L. Plotkin, Margaret Loeb Kempner, etal (Reliability: 3).

    8. [S33] One World Tree (sm), Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.), REBECCFA FRANKS & HENRY JOHNSON (Reliability: 1).

    9. [S294] Loeb Jewish Portraits Database, (http://www.loebjewishportraits.com/home.html), FRANKS, RICHA (Reliability: 3).