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  • ...is power of attorney to individuals whom they trust, relatives, friends or acquaintances. ...vice provider]], you apply to be found eligible to [[adopt]] (Form I-800A) by the U.S. Government, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and
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  • ...the Mackenzies, but he remained in contact with them. When he was six the family moved to England, but they returned to the USA in 1820. ...tal problems and periodic drunkenness, and he was temporarily disinherited by his foster father.
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  • ...heRichYoungRuler.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''"Christ and the Rich Young Ruler" by Heinrich Hofmann, 1889'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...oseph the Carpenter]]''', but literally the son of God. He was referred to by his contemporaries as the son of Joseph, and the Gospels record that Joseph
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  • ...in Louisiana. He was orphaned at an early age, but was fostered by family friends. He worked his way through school and university. Family Friends or Acquaintances/
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  • ...he Society of Antiquaries from 1812 to 1846. From 1813 to 1855 he was more or less continuously in politics, in Parliament, and first as a diplomat (for Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and Adopted People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...579px|thumb|'''Statue of King Arthur, designed by Albrecht Dürer and cast by Peter Vischer the Elder, early 16th century'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.} '''''5th or 6th century'''''
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  • ...February, 16 October and 16 and 26 November. Her surname is spelled Bayul or Baiul, according to different romanizations. Her father abandoned the family when she was two. As a child she wanted to be a ballet dancer, but was over
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  • ...18 months old, and she spent the next two years in foster care with family friends, until she was able to rejoin her father and two older brothers in a counci ...kend classes at a drama school in 1982. She has appeared in Scrubbers, Nil by Mouth (winning Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival), Absolutely Fabulo
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  • ...d by his teacher, Philip Burton, who, although too close in age to the boy by a few days to [[adopt]] him, became his [[Legal Guardian|legal guardian]] a ...amous stage and film actors of the 20th century, but his life was saddened by several failed marriages (including two to Elizabeth Taylor) and drink prob
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  • ...|410x579px|thumb|'''''Cuchulainn Slays the Hound of Culain'' illustration by Stephen Reid from Eleanor Hull's The Boys' Cuchulain, 1904.'''<br />Source: ...ven pupils in each eye and 14 fingers and toes. He was sent to be fostered by the best men in Ulster, according to ancient Irish custom.
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  • ...and Alexandra was then separately [[adopted]] by a wealthy St. Petersburg family (sources differ). Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...r Genoa. When he was 10 a wealthy Genoese couple, who had become enchanted by the boy on their holidays, persuaded his parents to let them take him home ...or him to go to Rome to study, where he lived with a cousin from his birth family who was a priest.
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  • ...ys after he was born, and his busy father gave him into the custody of her friends, the extremely wealthy and powerful Democratic Party grandees, Averell and ...father and step-mother, but his father died in 1951. He grew up surrounded by the rich, famous and powerful, and made his own independent career as a ban
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  • ...ficer who won fame as the commander of the Essex during the War of 1812, a family friend to whom his father sent him after his mother died. ...agut was the first rear-admiral of the US Navy, a position created for him by Congress in 1862. In 1995 the US Postal Service honored him with a 32-cent
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  • ...Maori in Auckland which he replicated in their new home; one of his close friends was the Ngati Manu aristocrat Nepia Pomare. To solve the impasse Pomare adopted the Fowler boy and performed a purification ceremony on him, which applied
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  • ...she was about eight she was raised by a succession of other LDS families, friends and relatives. ...usband took a second wife and Fox was left largely on her own to raise her family. She ran a boarding house, then became a secretary in the Young Ladies' Mut
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  • ...allery_IMG_4392.JPG |410x579px|thumb|'''Portrait of William Lloyd Garrison by Nathaniel Jocelyn, oil on panel, 1833.'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...ekiel Bartlett of the town offered to foster William, and he found a happy family life with the Bartletts. For some years he lived alternately with them and
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  • ...ence of [[adoption]] to support this idea. The book's argument is rejected by most other scholars. [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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  • ..._John_Trumbull_1806.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...e boys were separated, with Alexander going to live with his best friend's family until he sailed for the American colonies in 1772.
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  • ...is father had also died by 1817. He was taken in by neighbors, the Wheeler family, who became his parents until 1823. [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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