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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...]] 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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