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- Gaskell's mother died before she was one month old, and she was raised partly by an aunt, but her [[Category: Other or Unknown Reasons for Serial Placement]]1 KB (147 words) - 06:34, 27 February 2018
- ...; but his influence on English literature, particularly through the Beggar's Opera, has been considerable. Bear, Richard. "The Beggar's Opera: John Gay: Transcribed, with an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography1 KB (190 words) - 06:04, 1 March 2018
- ...ee sons born in Philadelphia to Jewish immigrants from Minsk. Their father died in 1918 in the flu pandemic. When their mother remarried her new husband in ...d the idea, and The Producers, 1968, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, became an instant and permanent cult comedy classic and won Brooks an Oscar; the B4 KB (583 words) - 04:17, 5 March 2018
- ...ee sons born in Philadelphia to Jewish immigrants from Minsk. Their father died in 1918 in the flu pandemic. When their mother remarried her new husband in ...d the idea, and The Producers, 1968, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, became an instant and permanent cult comedy classic and won Brooks an Oscar; the B4 KB (585 words) - 03:47, 5 March 2018
- ...muel_Goldwyn_001.jpg/392px-Samuel_Goldwyn_001.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''1914 or earlier'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...ess. As a movie mogul he worked hard for a number of charities. In 1947 he became the only Hollywood producer to publicly condemn the witch-hunts US House of1 KB (207 words) - 16:43, 14 May 2014
- ...rmers near Johannesburg, and had two born-to children. His adoptive father died when he was eight. His relationship with his mother was never very satisfac [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]2 KB (222 words) - 05:00, 27 February 2018
- Another source says that his mother died when he was five. His alcoholic father sent him and his three siblings to l [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]2 KB (218 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2014
- ...s mother moved to London to remarry. He probably never saw his father, who died/was murdered before 1907. ...erican culture and in 1906, aged 17/18 he emigrated to [[Canada]] where he became a fur trapper. He married five times, not always bothering to divorce his c4 KB (576 words) - 06:28, 28 February 2018
- Hoover's father died when he was six and his mother when he was nine. He and his brother and sis ...sion on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. In 1921 he became secretary of commerce under Harding and held the same post under Coolidge.2 KB (347 words) - 07:00, 28 February 2018
- ...born in [[Germany]] to 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] [[Category: Late or Traumatic Learning of Adoption]]2 KB (232 words) - 18:19, 28 May 2014
- ...d also died by 1817. He was taken in by neighbors, the Wheeler family, who became his parents until 1823. ...ay Saints]] (Mormons) in 1831. From 1832 he held offices in the church. He became an apostle at the age of 30. In 1838 he was excommunicated, but was reinsta3 KB (416 words) - 20:18, 3 March 2018
- He became archbishop of Seville in about 600, succeeding his brother. He was famous f [[Category: Adoptees/Fosterees from Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Birth Families]]2 KB (304 words) - 01:49, 1 March 2018
- ...and Anna Ivanovna's nephew. She died the following day, and the baby Ivan became Czar of all the Russians. [[Russia]] was effectively ruled by his mother, ...ren were born, but Ivan was separated from his parents in 1744. His mother died in 1746.3 KB (379 words) - 01:50, 1 March 2018
- ...ackson.jpg/413px-Stonewall_Jackson.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''General Jackson's "Chancellorsville" Portrait, taken at a Spotsylvania County farm on April 2 ...and little Thomas was sent to live with relatives. His mother in any case died in 1831, leaving Thomas an [[orphan]] at the age of six, to be raised by a2 KB (336 words) - 17:22, 14 May 2014
- Jenkins' birth parents both died when he was young in Liverpool (father in 1887 and mother in 1888) and he w [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (153 words) - 20:27, 2 June 2014
- ...a young child and brought up by his grandparents, but his grandmother also died when he was a boy. He contracted tuberculosis as a child and as a teenager ...rk. He also became a communist and later went to live in the USSR where he became an associate and translator of Lenin.2 KB (253 words) - 19:49, 19 March 2018
- ...she began to have visions. In 1206 she was professed as a nun. In 1230 she became superior of the convent but there was considerable opposition, and she was [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]1,019 B (141 words) - 18:27, 28 May 2014
- ...randmother, when he was not at boarding school. Very soon after his father died his mother remarried, but it was a disaster and she and the children ran aw ...o become one of the greatest poets of the English language, even though he died very young.2 KB (258 words) - 06:11, 1 March 2018
- ...d by her parents, although she returned in a year or two, while his father died in the war. ...dained as a Lutheran pastor, and trained at the seminary in Tübingen, but became sidetracked by mathematics and astronomy (he also had disagreements with so3 KB (517 words) - 05:54, 1 March 2018
- ...when he was four. His father, a policeman who had been a member of Hitler's SS, was a violent man who abused the boy so badly that he was taken to an [ ...ed and he was himself was seriously wounded. He escaped to [[Algeria]] but became disillusioned in 1977 and left the movement, providing anti-terrorist infor2 KB (243 words) - 06:33, 28 February 2018
- ...uppertsdorf [[orphanage]], and spent the rest of his childhood in children's homes. ...as caught and sent to prison for a short time, and when he was released he became a media celebrity and opened a gallery of forgeries in Stuttgart and anothe2 KB (327 words) - 04:15, 3 March 2018
- ...en. His father deserted the family while he was still young and his mother died in 1890, leaving his sister to raise the family. Young Frank was placed in [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (175 words) - 07:07, 27 February 2018
- ...e, 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. ...ophet Joseph Smith's home. Smith's martyrdom in 1844 only strengthened Lee's commitment. He took another five wives following the 1843 promulgation of t4 KB (602 words) - 06:03, 1 March 2018
- ...leaving her in Britain with a relative who ran a girls' school. Her father died soon afterwards and she did not see her mother again until she was 15. Her story, at great variance with the Thai version, became famous in the book Anna and the King of Siam and the musical The King and I2 KB (304 words) - 16:15, 15 May 2014
- ...rktown (1781), George and Martha adopted his six children (that is, Martha's grandchildren), including young George [[Washington]] Parke and Nelly Custi ...ok of recipes and formulae which in many way parallels the work of Britain's Mrs. Beeton.3 KB (393 words) - 06:27, 27 February 2018
- Lloyd's parents died when he was nine and he was then raised by relatives. [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (149 words) - 20:54, 20 May 2014
- ...of his childhood was spent in a succession of foster homes and/or children's homes (sources differ) and he was very unhappy. He ran away several times, [[Category: Parent(s) Left Home, Leaving Child Behind]]2 KB (288 words) - 06:38, 28 February 2018
- His 60-plus books include Of Human Bondage, Razor's Edge, The Narrow Corner, Catalina, The Magician, The Casuarina Tree and The ...Lorin. Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham. ([[New York]]: St. Martin's Press, 1992)1 KB (186 words) - 17:16, 17 June 2014
- ...rotestantism, although she returned to the Catholic church just before she died a few years later. ...testants, but McAuley converted both of them to Catholicism. When Callahan died in 1822 shortly after his wife, she was left his entire fortune.2 KB (308 words) - 16:03, 19 May 2014
- Gelderman, Carol W. Mary McCarthy: A Life. ([[New York]]: St. Martin's Press, 1989) [[Category: Multiple or Unspecified]]2 KB (269 words) - 20:45, 28 May 2014
- McCarthy's mother died when he was 10 and his father when he was 14. Relatives then sent him to bo ...ed in the NZ Army, where he was appointed a military judge, and in 1956 he became a civilian judge, presiding at the trial of the last man to be executed in1 KB (200 words) - 17:04, 17 June 2014
- McKenzie's mother committed suicide and his alcoholic father was unable to care for hi [[Category: Parental Illness (Mental or Physical), Addiction]]2 KB (246 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2018
- ...432px-Steve_McQueen_1959.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''McQueen in ''Wanted: Dead or Alive'', 1959'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...ful for its help in turning him around. (He frequently visited it after he became famous, and left it $200,000 in his will.) He joined his mother in [[New Yo3 KB (405 words) - 03:56, 5 March 2018
- ...iously as bank clerk, farm laborer and teacher, before going to sea at 19 (or 18). ...sas found the entire incident corroborated in Typee oral history. Melville's other novels include Omoo, and Moby-Dick, often considered the finest novel2 KB (310 words) - 20:20, 13 May 2014
- Memminger was born in [[Germany]]. His father died soon after his birth and his mother and grandparents emigrated to the USA s ...] state legislature, 1836-52 and 1854-60. In 1854 he reorganized the state's educational [[system]]. During the Civil War he served as a delegate to the2 KB (316 words) - 03:57, 26 February 2018
- ...d side-kick of Syr Wynff ap Concorde the Boss. He was raised in a children's home in Llan Ffestiniog, North Wales, from the age of six until 17. He and [[Category: Parental Illness (Mental or Physical), Addiction]]1 KB (210 words) - 20:59, 28 May 2014
- Monaghan's father died when he was four, and he and his younger brother were put into care by thei ...g pizza parlor in 1960 for $975, which became the foundation of his Domino's Pizza franchise empire.2 KB (260 words) - 04:14, 5 March 2018
- ...s, but Bill lived first with his father's brother and then with his mother's brother, Pendleton Vanderver, who was also a considerable influence on his ...d a team of dancers and also played music on local radio stations. In 1934 or 35 they were sponsored by a laxative manufacturer to go on tour, but Birch3 KB (436 words) - 04:32, 5 March 2018
- Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island and her mother died when she was two. Her father left her to be raised by very strict grandpare ...join her father and step-mother, but it broke down, due to the step-mother's cruelty. Her early years and love of PEI shaped her literary life: her most2 KB (312 words) - 19:06, 3 March 2018
- He became an entertainment and media tycoon. He and his wife founded the Miss World p Who's Who, 1997951 B (131 words) - 06:38, 27 February 2018
- ...as born Kaj Harald Leininger Petersen on the island of Lolland. His father died in 1899 and his mother in 1903. He was then adopted by the Munk family. [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]2 KB (220 words) - 04:10, 3 March 2018
- ...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 adopt ...er company, from which he made a large fortune. In 1876 he married Bennett's daughter, Mary. Principal beneficiaries of his philanthropy were The Citade2 KB (276 words) - 03:55, 24 February 2018
- ...na and orphaned as a child. His father was murdered in 1867 and his mother died the next year, and the sadness and unhappiness of his childhood colored his [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (179 words) - 20:38, 21 May 2014
- ...no interest in the now destitute child, and she was fostered by her father's cousin, Lady Betty Fownes, although she spent most of her time at boarding ...and gossip (they dressed in men's clothing) were soon overcome, and Butler's independent income enabled them to be local benefactors of the poor and to3 KB (391 words) - 05:09, 4 March 2018
- Pryse's mother died when he was four and his father when he was 11. He and his four brothers an [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (196 words) - 20:24, 2 June 2014
- She became an actress herself, appearing (as Katherine DeMille) in 27 films from 1931 [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]1 KB (154 words) - 18:42, 28 May 2014
- ...bridge, near Edinburgh, the son of a well-to-do lawyer and businessman. He became an orphan when he was six, and was then raised by his much older brother. A [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (173 words) - 16:37, 22 May 2014
- ...s Hospital, Carsharlton, then transferred six months later to St. Lawrence's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his life. During the first few Roberts listened to Deacon's dictation and repeated it to Sangster, who wrote it down in longhand. After3 KB (475 words) - 19:53, 13 May 2014
- Rousseau's mother died a few days after he was born (in [[Switzerland]]) and he was then raised by .... He ran away from his apprenticeship to an engraver after three years and became secretary and companion to a wealthy and sympathetic woman.3 KB (388 words) - 05:29, 1 March 2018
- ...en she was seven her father committed suicide, after losing all the family's money to a confidence man, and Julia and her older sister discovered his bo [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (167 words) - 04:07, 3 March 2018