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  • ...Johann Ambrosius and Maria Elisabeth Bach. His mother died in 1694 and his father in 1695. The nine-year-old [[orphan]] and his brother Jacob were then raise Bach married twice and had 20 children, a number of whom also became famous musicians an
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  • ...re when she was five and she emerged at the end of the war. Unusually, her father survived the war. [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]]
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  • ...o be raised by her grandparents in [[Alabama]], although she still saw her father sometimes. ...n and off stage; she had problems with alcohol and drugs. Although she was married to John Emery for four years, she was bisexual. Her last years were spent i
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  • ...became HIV+ during a period when he was actively homosexual, but was also married and had a family. He died of AIDS. [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
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  • ...n. Her mother (also a ballerina) remarried and she was adopted by her step-father, a dentist. ...cipal ballerina with the Royal Ballet since 1990. Her [[Birth Father|birth father]], John Crittle, was a fashionable tailor, whose clients included The Beatl
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  • ...he identifies himself as Japanese, but has never had any contact with his father. ...s were divorced before he was born, and his mother, actress Sharon Thomas, married the film director Christopher Cain, who adopted Dean.
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  • ...d her early life in romantic inventions, but the facts seem to be that her father was a wastrel and a vagabond, her mother died in 1895, and Gabrielle and a [[Category: Child Abandoned or Rejected by Birth Parent(s)]]
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  • ...died aged 25 and she was fostered by an aunt for a short while, before her father took her and her brother to Washington state. He died soon afterwards, and She married and had two children born to her, and then she and her husband adopted thre
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  • ...modern-day prophet through, among other events, a visitation from God the Father and [[Jesus]] Christ.'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...ption]]," was usually practiced between adult men, but if the new son were married it included his wife (or wives, since the church at this time permitted pol
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  • ...n 1988 showed that every third adult fiction book borrowed was by her. She married but never had children. [[Category: Raised With Birth Parent Without Knowing]]
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  • ...rs, case workers and agencies. For the most part, a traditional adopter is married and healthy. However, there is an increasing number of non-traditional adop ...known about an adoptee's birth mother or father or stating that the birth father was unknown at the time of [[adoption]] can be hurtful and make the child f
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  • ...ally he became head of Current Affairs for the BBC in Northern Ireland. He married an American who could not live in the UK, so he emigrated to the USA where ...ther in the dust jacket photograph, and she contacted him. He now uses his birth name.
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  • ...niels to a married couple. When she was five or seven (sources differ) her father abandoned the family for another woman. Her mother moved with the three chi [[Category: Child Abandoned or Rejected by Birth Parent(s)]]
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  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] [[Category: Mother Married, but Not to Father]]
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  • ...[[Washington]] became step-father to Jacky and his sister Patsy, and years later, after Jacky was himself killed at the Battle of Yorktown (1781), George an ...E. Lee, the Confederate general, who also lived in Arlington House. Nelly married George [[Washington]]'s nephew, Lawrence Lewis, and they lived at Woodlawn
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  • ...was in fact the son of Madame de Tencin and General Destouches-Canon. His father soon reclaimed him, placing him for fostering with a glazier's family named [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]]
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  • Dahlberg was the son of a married hairdresser who had been kicked out of the house before he was born by her [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...n poverty. Eugène and his sister, Hortense were adopted by their new step-father. ...Grand-Duke of Frankfurt, Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince of Eichstadt. He married Auguste-Amélie de Wittelsbach and they had seven children.
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  • ...rty. Hortense and her brother, Eugène, were [[adopted]] by their new step-father. Already, in 1802, she had been unhappily married to Napoléon's brother, Prince Louis, and they were made King and Queen of
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  • ...less couple in Lancashire, England. In spite of the fact that his adoptive father died when he was seven, he still had a happy childhood with his mother and In his 20s he traced his [[Birth Mother|birth mother]] and found that his Armenian grandfather had done the same work, wo
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  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] [[Category: Mother Married, but Not to Father]]
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  • ...s]] (Mormons) five months after her birth. Her mother died in 1855 and her father was then sent away on church work, so until she was about eight she was rai ...followed her father to America, eventually settling in [[Utah]], where she married in 1873 and had 12 children. Her husband took a second wife and Fox was lef
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  • ...was born to an unmarried woman and spent 10 years in an [[orphanage]]. She married in 1907 but did not begin to paint until one of her sons died of influenza. [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...]]. His mother married Robert Gingrich, and he was [[adopted]] by his step-father.
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  • ...tly after his mother moved to London to remarry. He probably never saw his father, who died/was murdered before 1907. ...6, aged 17/18 he emigrated to [[Canada]] where he became a fur trapper. He married five times, not always bothering to divorce his current wife, and had four
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  • ...ribbean island of Nevis. Not long after his mother moved in with his birth father, James Hamilton abandoned the family on St. Croix. They then went to live w [[Category: Mother Married, but Not to Father]]
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  • He married Megara, daughter of King Creon, but went mad (the madness was sent by Hera) [[Category: Adoptees/fosterees Who Are or Were Also Birth Parents]]
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  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] [[Category: Mother Married, but Not to Father]]
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  • ...a married couple. 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 In 1997 he traced his father in [[Germany]] and met him in 1998.
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  • His father was Anton Ulrich, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1714-74), and Anna Iv [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...staying with his now-widowed adoptive father. He chose to remain with his father. [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...nciled by the explanation that Joseph's mother (whose name is unknown) was married twice. Her first husband would have been Heli, who died childless. Under Je ...t. [[Mary the Virgin]]'s husband and [[Jesus]] Christ's foster or adoptive father he had a considerable role in the formation of Christianity and thus the co
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  • ...him to boarding school, but he didn't like it and soon ran away to sea. He later returned to England and became a ward of his uncle, [[Moses]] Kean, who was ...finally collapsed on stage, playing opposite his son, and died two months later.
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  • ...e raised by her parents, although she returned in a year or two, while his father died in the war. ...cceeded as imperial mathematician in 1601. He recalculated the date of the birth of [[Jesus]] Christ to 4 BCE, which is still the accepted date. In 1612 he
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  • ...are both [[adopted]] (I have no confirmation, but I believe they are also birth brothers). ...ng Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy, Captains and the Kings, Mame, and Only with Married Men.
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  • Langstone was the fourth of five children. His father deserted the family while he was still young and his mother died in 1890, l ...d in Parliament, but not continuously, until 1949, in the Labour party. He later also ran several times, unsuccessfully, as a Social Credit Political League
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  • ...d and cruel and her father, whom she loved, died when she was 10. Her step-father sexually abused her and tried to murder her when she disclosed the [[abuse] She married Norman Lear, a television producer (All in the Family), but they divorced a
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  • ...[[Washington]] became step-father to Jacky and his sister Patsy, and years later, after Jacky was himself killed at the Battle of Yorktown (1781), George an ...E. Lee, the Confederate general, who also lived in Arlington House. Nelly married George [[Washington]]'s nephew, Lawrence Lewis, and they lived at Woodlawn
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  • She was married once, for a short time, to Goffredo Alessandrini, and had one child, by Mas [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...born into a comfortably well-off merchant family in [[New York]], but his father went bankrupt and insane, and died when he was 12 (other sources say 14), l ...he Typee people, then "notorious cannibals." He was adopted by a chief and married his daughter, Pe'ue.
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  • ...hen returned him to the god Dionysus, who looked on Silenus as a surrogate father, and was rewarded with the near-fatal gold wish. When this backfired, Diony [[Category: Adoptees/Fosterees from Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Birth Families]]
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  • ...lived in a series of nine more foster homes and an [[orphanage]] until she married for the first time at 16 in order to get out of the care [[system]] which h [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...ed; the other that he was raised by his father and a housekeeper until his father's death, when he went to the [[orphanage]]. He was fostered in 1860 and ado ...'s rice and lumber company, from which he made a large fortune. In 1876 he married Bennett's daughter, Mary. Principal beneficiaries of his philanthropy were
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  • ...sle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...immediately accede to the throne. The adoptee would cut all ties with his birth family.
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  • [[Pregnancy]] and birth are a challenge for any woman. When it's a teen [[pregnancy]], the challeng ...to end the [[pregnancy]], [[surrender]] the baby for [[adoption]], or get married - choices not as commonly faced by pregnant adults. And while all pregnant
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  • ...d when he was nine. His mother and he then moved to [[California]] and she married actor Max Palmer and he had an otherwise happy and privileged childhood. He has no interest in tracing his birth family.
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  • ...naki district of [[New Zealand]] in 1874, probably in retaliation when her father disturbed a sacred burial ground after being warned not to do so, but also ...again until she was a mature woman, and did not know she wasn't a Maori by birth, although she was conscious of looking different from other Maori.
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  • ...Brooklyn to a US Army lieutenant and his wife, James and Anne Wagner. Her father died in a plane crash when she was a baby. Her mother remarried, another Ar Her step-father [[adopted]] her. She was not told about her birth father until she was a teenager.
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  • ...Two previous children had been taken by their grandparents to be raised; a later fourth child was also [[adopted]] by "strangers." Rowson's adoptive mother ...ed him to contact her, and he has (as of mid-2001) met two brothers. Their birth mother had died some years before. He has found that although he has striki
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  • ...r, Dorothy. Helen died in a fire in 1929, and he married again four months later. His new wife, Claire Hodgson, a widow, also had a daughter, Julia, and the Stevens, Julia Ruth. A Father's Love: Babe Ruth's Daughter Remembers. (Chicago: Triumph Books, 2001)
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