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• Richard Burton and Adoption
  ...er, Philip Burton, who, although too close in age to the boy by a few days to [[adopt]] him, became his [[Legal Guardian|legal guardian]] and gave him hi ...tury, but his life was saddened by several failed marriages (including two to Elizabeth Taylor) and drink problems. His films included My Cousin Rachel,
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• Robert C. Byrd and Adoption
  ...]. He graduated from high school first in his class but was too poor to go to university full time. ...ayed in the Senate after 40 years until he passed away in June of 2010 due to health issues..
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• John Callahan and Adoption
  ...then had five birth children. He felt an outsider in his family and began to abuse alcohol. ...yndicated cartoonist, famous for his wicked sense of humor and willingness to tackle taboo subjects and sacred cows.
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• Morris Cerullo and Adoption
  ...him to Heaven, where he met God face to face and was told he would be able to foretell the future. ...de him controversial, he has a world-wide following and regularly preaches to congregations of tens of thousands. He heads two organizations: Morris Ceru
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• Eric Clapton and Adoption
  ...nmarried girl of 16 and a Canadian soldier, and raised by her parents. His mother left home, returning in 1957, but for some years the fiction was maintained He got his first guitar when he was 14 and went on to become one of the world's greatest rock musicians, in the Yardbirds, Cream
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• Brian Connolly and Adoption
  ...s named Mark, and there was also a cousin named Mark McManus - who grew up to become the actor who played Taggart in the British television detective ser [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]
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• Catherine Anne Cookson and Adoption
  ...asting shock, leading a nervous breakdown in her thirties. But she went on to become one of the most successful novelists of all time. Goodwin, Cliff. To Be a Lady: The Story of Catherine Cookson. (London: Arrow, 1995)
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• Bernard Cornwell and Adoption
  ...on afterwards he was adopted by the Wiggins couple from Essex who belonged to the fundamentalist separatist sect, The Peculiar People. They adopted five ...to the USA where he had to become a writer, something he had always wanted to do anyway, because he was refused working permit. His first book won him a
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• Eric Robertson Cullen and Adoption
  ...fism. (He was adopted at birth because his mother was unmarried and unable to care for him; his achondroplasia was not diagnosed until he was seven.) ...hen work dried up in his teens, instead of becoming depressed he went back to school and college, graduating from Glasgow College in social sciences. Soo
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• Edward Dahlberg and Adoption
  ...rn by her husband for being unfaithful. He and his older brother were sent to a Jewish orphanage, but he absconded. His experiences there influenced his [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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• Joseph John Deacon and Adoption
  ...d to Queen Mary's Hospital, Carsharlton, then transferred six months later to St. Lawrence's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his life. During ...e age of 10, also with severe cerebral palsy, and was the only person able to understand Deacon, because of his severe speech impairment. The third membe
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• James Byron Dean and Adoption
  ...randparents, where he stayed until 1949. He then returned to live with his father in Los Angeles and started university. In the early 1950s he began to get acting jobs and soon became one of the best-known actors in the country
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• Anthony Douglas and Adoption
  Douglas was born to an 18-year-old unmarried girl in the northeast of England and placed for adoption in London as a bab ...of the Association of Directors of Social Services. In April 2002 he moved to become the director of social care for Suffolk County Council. He is also (
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• Peter Oelrichs Duchin and Adoption
  ...beneath her. His mother died only six days after he was born, and his busy father gave him into the custody of her friends, the extremely wealthy and powerfu ...47 he went back to live with his remarried father and step-mother, but his father died in 1951. He grew up surrounded by the rich, famous and powerful, and m
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• David Glasgow Farragut and Adoption
  ...ing the War of 1812, a family friend to whom his father sent him after his mother died. [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
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• Olive Fremstad and Adoption
  ...]] there by an American family of Swedish heritage and emigrated with them to the USA when she was 10. ...he family moved to Minneapolis. She was excellent at the piano, but turned to singing in her teens. She studied in [[New York]] and Berlin, and made her
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• William Lloyd Garrison and Adoption
  ...to a carpenter, and tried several other trades. Finally he was indentured to a newspaper owner when he was 14 and quickly learned the printing trade and ...decades fighting slavery, dedicating his journalism and publishing skills to the cause. He founded the Liberator, a famous abolitionist paper, in 1831 a
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• Madge Gill and Adoption
  ...spent 10 years in an [[orphanage]]. She married in 1907 but did not begin to paint until one of her sons died of influenza. ...cognized as a major figure in Brut painting ([[ART|art]] without precedent or tradition; [[ART|art]] by "outsiders").
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• Kenneth Grahame and Adoption
  ...lings to live with relatives. There was a trial year when he tried again to raise them himself, but it failed and the children never heard from him aga ...gh an important financial figure and head of the Bank of England from 1898 to 1908, he is most famous as the author of The Wind in the Willows, first pub
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• Larry Grayson and Adoption
  ...other died when he was six and he was then raised by his two sisters (born-to daughters of the Hammonds). ...st touch with his working-class roots or his home town, where he continued to live until his death from a burst appendix.
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• Michael Haas and Adoption
  Dr. Haas was born to an unmarried woman in Detroit, [[Michigan]], and raised in Los Angeles, [[California]]. ...ho their birth parents are. As an adult he traced his [[Birth Mother|birth mother]], but she had already died, and he has also traced other members of his bi
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• Joseph Peter Hyde and Adoption
  ...When he was one or two his mother died of cancer and his father, unable to cope alone, left him in an [[orphanage]]. After a few months he was adopted by a In 1997 he traced his father in [[Germany]] and met him in 1998.
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• Jakko M. Jakszyk and Adoption
  ...England. His mother emigrated to the USA and had another child by the same father, before marrying another man. ...doptive mother was herself abandoned in an [[orphanage]] as a child by her mother.
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• Stewart Whyte McEwan Jones and Adoption
  ...equirements and he was adopted again, by a Scottish-Welsh couple who moved to North Wales, where he grew up as a Welsh-speaking boy. ...staying with his now-widowed adoptive father. He chose to remain with his father.
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• Edmund Kean and Adoption
  ...9px|thumb|'''Edmund Kean as Sir Giles Overreach in Massinger's ''A New Way to Pay Old Debts'', b. 1816'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} Kean was the son of a poverty-stricken actress, Ann Carey, who more or less abandoned him on the streets, and (probably) an architect's clerk, Edm
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• John Keats and Adoption
  ...ew husband. Their grandmother took [[custody]] of the children, and Keats' mother did not reappear until 1809. He grew up to become one of the greatest poets of the English language, even though he di
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• Frances Lear and Adoption
  ...loved, died when she was 10. Her step-father sexually abused her and tried to murder her when she disclosed the [[abuse]]. ...lish the influential feminist women's magazine, Lear's Magazine, from 1988 to 1993.
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• John Doyle Lee and Adoption
  ...died when he was three, and his father was an alcoholic. At seven he went to live with an uncle's family, and stayed with them until he was sixteen. ...of plural marriage, and was part of the flight to Winter Quarters and then to [[Utah]].
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• John Winston Lennon and Adoption
  ...estart the marriage, and unwanted in the new family of his mother and step-father, he was raised by his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George, who were childless. A you ...red rock 'n' roll music. He met Paul McCartney in 1957, who introduced him to George Harrison. The band evolved into The Beatles (via Johnny and the Moon
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• Hugh Leonard and Adoption
  ...fe, Nicholas and Margaret Keyes and raised in Dalkey. He won a scholarship to grammar school and then worked in a film rental office and the Irish Land C ...rd, in 1956, was successful. In the 1960s he moved to London, but returned to live in [[Ireland]] in 1970 after a change in the tax laws. He is the most
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• Anna Magnani and Adoption
  ...er to her own mother to raise. She grew up in the slums, and was desperate to escape into film acting. She attended the drama academy there, but her care ...in all, and was one of the few European female stars of the 1950s and 60s to be famous as a straight actress, not primarily a sex symbol. Her last major
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• Desmond McDaid and Adoption
  ...was nine, when he was shipped, without his mother's knowledge or consent, to [[Australia]] as one of the [[Child Migrants]]. He spent the rest of his ch He was apprenticed to a tool-maker and eventually owned his own tool-sharpening company.
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• Richard B. McKenzie and Adoption
  ...start in a supportive, nurturing environment. Most of the children went on to university and successful adult lives. [[Category: Parental Illness (Mental or Physical), Addiction]]
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• Steve McQueen and Adoption
  ...432px-Steve_McQueen_1959.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''McQueen in ''Wanted: Dead or Alive'', 1959'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...t after he became famous, and left it $200,000 in his will.) He joined his mother in [[New York]], but the [[reunion]] was not successful and he briefly work
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• Mici Plwm and Adoption
  ...some local prejudice against the "children from the home," but it was hard to maintain normal sibling relationships in a home with 40 children. Their father lived in the same village and they saw him every week and the family has al
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• Phillip Middlemiss and Adoption
  ...went to the Daily Mirror newspaper with her story, but Middlemiss refused to comment. [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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• Thomas Monaghan and Adoption
  ...ater he was sent to live on a farm because of problems between him and his mother. He owned the Detroit Tigers baseball team from 1984 to 1992.
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• Marilyn Monroe and Adoption
  ...h her mother, but did not know who she was. Then she went to live with her mother, who soon became mentally ill and was hospitalized, whereupon Monroe was ad ...s and an [[orphanage]] until she married for the first time at 16 in order to get out of the care [[system]] which had so seriously failed her. In one of
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• Lucy Maud Montgomery and Adoption
  ...ce Edward Island and her mother died when she was two. Her father left her to be raised by very strict grandparents while he moved west and started a new ...ved to join her father and step-mother, but it broke down, due to the step-mother's cruelty. Her early years and love of PEI shaped her literary life: her mo
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• Brian Moore and Adoption
  ...er]] a dentist. He was adopted as a baby. His adoptive family has two born-to children and four who were adopted. ...nown he was adopted and in 1994 he traced and met his [[Birth Mother|birth mother]] and brother.
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• Andrew Buist Murray and Adoption
  ...sed by his father and a housekeeper until his father's death, when he went to the [[orphanage]]. He was fostered in 1860 and adopted when he was 17 by [[ [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
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• Irene Paulger and Adoption
  ...Hepetipa. She stayed there until 1947, when poor health forced her to move to Auckland. She became deeply attached to and involved in the Maungpohatu community and the surrounding Tuhoe tribe,
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• Dana Michelle Plato and Adoption
  ...t make the transition to adult acting. She was the second child of a young unmarried birthmother who relinquished her for adoption as a baby. She was [[adopted] ...lso for forging a Valium prescription, and her drug problem eventually led to suicide by an overdose in 1999.
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• Ernie Roberts and Adoption (see Deacon, Joseph John)
  ...d to Queen Mary's Hospital, Carsharlton, then transferred six months later to St. Lawrence's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his life. During ...ith severe [[Cerebral Palsy|cerebral palsy]], and was the only person able to understand Deacon, because of his severe speech impairment. The third membe
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• Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adoption
  Rousseau's mother died a few days after he was born (in [[Switzerland]]) and he was then rais ..., and then gave him to the [[custody]] of his aunt and uncle, who sent him to boarding school.
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• Martin Rowson and Adoption
  ...later fourth child was also [[adopted]] by "strangers." Rowson's adoptive mother died when he was 10. ...blings, his religion and politics are poles apart, but they are still glad to have found each other.
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• William Tecumseh Sherman and Adoption
  ...s to be raised by an aunt and William to be fostered or [[adopted]] by his father's prosperous friend, Thomas Ewing, who named him after Chief Tecumseh. ...suffered from feelings of rejection, depression and alienation, which led to him being accused by some of insanity.
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• Robyn Smith and Adoption
  ...r adoptive family. She may also have later spent time in a children's home or "women's residence." She became a jockey in 1969 and in 1973 became the first woman to win a major race in the USA (riding North Sea in the Paumonok Handicap at A
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• Percy LaBaron Spencer and Adoption
  ...ather died when he was 18 months old and his mother left home, leaving him to be brought up by his uncle and aunt, a poor farming family in [[Maine]]. Hi ...error. He joined the Navy and learned telegraphy and after discharge went to work for the Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company in Boston. He had already
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• Albert Stanhope and Adoption
  ...y saw less and less of him, but married a well-to-do man who wanted Albert to be part of their family. ...hipped him to [[Australia]], without her knowledge or consent and contrary to her specific written instructions when she placed him in care. He was then
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