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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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  • ...n that she was [[adopted]]. Her adoptive mother died when she was six. Her father remarried and he and her step-mother had two biological children, but the f ...s the three years it took for her to be able to assimilate and welcome her birth family into her life.
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  • ...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. Sherman was never really happy in the house, although he married his foster sister, and he always suffered from feelings of rejection, depre
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  • ...founder of the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS). His father and uncle had been arrested only days before he was born, his mother became His father and uncle escaped from jail and rejoined the family, who had fled to [[Illi
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  • ...birth mother but later went back to her adoptive family. She may also have later spent time in a children's home or "women's residence." She retired and in 1980 married the actor Fred Astaire (1899-1987), who was 55 years older than she.
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  • ...uring the following four years she gradually saw less and less of him, but married a well-to-do man who wanted Albert to be part of their family. ...her in 1993 with the help of the [[Child Migrants]]' Trust. Stanhope later married, had a family, and became a wealthy estate agent.
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  • ...father would join them when possible. But his father died less than a year later, before he could rejoin the family. The widow and her sons settled in the M ...irst class honors (magna cum laude) in 1915, then enlisted in the Army and married his childhood sweetheart. After the War he joined the team writing the monu
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  • ...noble landowner in [[Russia]] but his mother died when he was two and his father when he was nine. He was then raised by relatives, first a grandmother, who He married and had 13 children but his marriage was not happy and he was tormented by
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  • ...John Prescott, deputy prime minister of the UK (Prescott is not his birth father), and has two other sons. He and the Prescotts are now happily reunited, in [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...ble for [[adoption]] and may result in further investigations and delays. Birth parent(s) may not directly relinquish their child to an orphanage. Any [[r ...that the child return home when this becomes possible. In such cases, the birth parent(s) have rarely relinquished their [[Parental Rights|parental rights]
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  • ...but he had no children. Tawaia [[adopted]] the son, '''Baiteke''', of his father's second wife, Teaa, although it was given out that he was actually Tawaia ...the niece and [[adopted]] daughter of the previous uea, Kaiea III, and the birth daughter of Kaiea III's sister, Kinateo. Arirei is the first known female u
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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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  • ...ntified himself as one, and registered his son as a Native American on his birth certificate). ...tured by white soldiers, part of General Custer's troops, for whom his own father had acted as scout.
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  • ...immediately accede to the throne. The adoptee would cut all ties with his birth family. ...f Akalkot (carved out of the state of Satara, given to him by his uncle or father); and
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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.
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 06:54, 27 February 2018
  • ...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.
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 04:18, 4 March 2018
  • ...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.
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 06:31, 28 February 2018
  • ...mily. She [[adopted]] William Pitt Kalaho'olewa Leleiohoku II, who was the birth brother of King Kalakaua I and Queen Liliu-o-kalani. Queen Ka'ahumanu also [[adopted]] twin girls, the birth daughters of King Kamehameha II's French secretary. One of these daughters,
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  • Haynes was the illegitimate son of an African father and a middle-class white woman, born in Hartford, [[Connecticut]]. His pare ...tor to a white congregation, the first African-American ever to do so, and married one of his congregants, with whom he had 10 children.
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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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  • ...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.
    22 KB (3,493 words) - 04:20, 3 March 2018
  • ...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.
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 03:20, 5 March 2018
  • ...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.
    22 KB (3,495 words) - 03:23, 5 March 2018
  • ...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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  • ...e ship bound for [[Colombia]]. His mother died soon after arriving and his father killed himself soon afterwards rather than live as a slave. When he was two ...750s, but wasted it on women and gambling and later opened a grocery shop, married and had six children. He was a friend of the author Laurence Sterne.
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  • ...y the twin) of Tenskwatawa, and was born near Springfield, [[Ohio]]. Their father, Pucksinwa, died in the Battle of Point Pleasant against the white men in 1 [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
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  • ...t uea, but he had no children. Tawaia [[adopted]] the son, Baiteke, of his father's second wife, Teaa, although it was given out that he was actually Tawaia ...the niece and [[adopted]] daughter of the previous uea, Kaiea III, and the birth daughter of Kaiea III's sister, Kinateo. Arirei is the first known female u
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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.
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:37, 26 February 2018
  • ...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.
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:41, 26 February 2018
  • ...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.
    22 KB (3,498 words) - 04:44, 26 February 2018
  • ...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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