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• Barbara Strozzi and Adoption
  ...known citizen of Venice, and it is generally thought that he was her birth father. In any case, he [[adopted]] her, named her his heiress, and had her educat ...for her music but for her position as leader of the salon surrounding her father; a not entirely respectable reputation, and she had four children by unknow
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• Jonathan Swift and Adoption
  ...en he was a year old he was kidnapped by his nurse and not returned to his mother for three years.) He did not see her again until 1688. [[Category: Parent(s) Left Home, Leaving Child Behind]]
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• John Thomson and Adoption
  ...Irish mother in Salford, England. She placed him for adoption and returned to Ulster, and he was [[adopted]] as a baby by Andrew and Marita Thomson. He g ...However one of the British gutter press newspapers took it upon themselves to do this in 2003, and published the results without his consent, which great
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• Grahame Thorne and Adoption
  ...ating experience, especially finding out that it had been common knowledge to everyone else. [[Category: Late or Traumatic Learning of Adoption]]
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• Trapp Family and Adoption
  ...be free to travel with his work as an engineer. She continued to visit her father until he died when she was nine. ...but mentally unstable and who abused her physically. After school she went to a teachers' college, but after a radical religious conversion she entered a
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• Heinrich von Kleist and Adoption
  ...py. Aged only 14, he enlisted in the Prussian army in 1792 but in 1793 his mother died, leaving him an orphan at 15. His lack of a proper Prussian devotion to discipline, order and "correctness," and his aimless lifestyle after leavin
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• Edgar Wallace and Adoption
  Wallace was born to an unmarried actress and fostered by a Billingsgate Fish Market porter and his wife when ...reer 25% of all books sold in Britain were by Wallace, and his total sales to date are over 25,000,000.
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• Paul Watton and Adoption
  Watton was born to Pauline Tilston, a young unmarried hairdresser, in Chester, England. She placed him for adoption when he was t He joined the British army and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Royal Military Police, serving in the
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• William R. Waters and Adoption
  ...began to study part time, gaining his first degree that way. He continued to study, gaining three more degrees, including a Ph.D. in 1976. ...ly, although he was raised quite near to where they lived and his adoptive mother knew their names.
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• Bruce Welch and Adoption
  Welch's mother died when he was five and he was raised by his aunt. ...ter winning a talent contest in London the following year, they were asked to join Cliff Richard's backing band, The Drifters, which later became The Sha
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• Marcus Whitman and Adoption
  ...e was eight and his mother sent him and his four brothers and sisters away to be raised by relatives. He was away for 10 years. ...t very successful as missionaries, and in time transferred their attention to assisting white settlement in the area.
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• Binjamin Wilkomirski and Adoption
  ...n orphaned by the Nazi Holocaust and one of the few hundred young children to survive the death camps. ...rland]], fostered and ultimately [[adopted]] by a Swiss family who refused to discuss his traumatic past with him.
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• Tecumseh and Adoption
  ...rs to be raised by relatives, including Chief Blackfish, who also fostered or [[adopted]] several white captive children. ...ership: that no individual or even tribe could alienate land to the whites or own land individually.
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• Tenskwatawa and Adoption
  ...white men (1774) before they were born and their mother left them in 1779 to be raised by relatives, including older brothers and sisters (one of whom w ...pan-tribal nation, stretching from the western slopes of the Appalachians to the Pacific coast, in 1808.
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• Albert Hensley and Adoption
  ...en. He ran away from home in 1888 to attend school (his father was opposed to white men's education), where he stayed until 1895. [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
  2 KB (251 words) - 03:41, 24 February 2018
• Zora Neale Hurston and Adoption
  ...n in the all-Black and Black-governed town of Eatonville, [[Florida]]. Her father, a carpenter and minister, and his wife had eight children. ...hool to [[adopt]] her. This did not happen, but at 13 she went to be nanny to her brother's children.
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• Pei Te Hurinui Jones and Adoption
  .... His father deserted the family shortly after he was born and he was sent to be the [[Tamaiti Whangai|tamaiti whangai]] of his aged great-great uncle, T ...knowledge and [[genealogy]], which he came to love and dedicated his life to recording. After leaving the farm in 1920 he became an interpreter for the
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