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Finn Mac Cumhal

Finn was the last and greatest leader of the Fianna. He was born named Demna, the son of Cumhal Mac Baiscne, who was killed by the Sons of Morna. His mother, Muirne, sent him away to the ca... [more]

Fish, Laura

Fish is a transracial adoptee, of Guyanese and Jamaican parentage. She has been in contact with her birth parents since 1989. Her first novel is Flight of the Black Swans (1995). In 2001... [more]

Fisher was born in a prison, where his mother was an inmate; his father died before he was born. He spent two years in an orphanage before being adopted by a family who physically and verbal... [more]

Fisher, Florence Anna

Fisher (she has reverted to her birth name) spent 20 years, from the age of 22, searching (successfully) for her birth parents in the face of nearly total official and family opposition. H... [more]

Fitzgerald, Ella

Fitzgerald's birth parents both died when she was a child; she never knew her father and her mother died about 1935. Some sources state that she earlier ran away from her abusive step-fathe... [more]

Ford, Gerald R.

Ford was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. His parents separated a few weeks after he was born and were divorced when he was two. After his mother remarried he was adopted by his step-father, Ger... [more]

Forman, Miloš

Forman was born Tomas Jan, one of three sons, in Cáslav, now in the Czech Republic. When he was nine his parents were arrested by the Gestapo, and both soon died in concentration camps. The... [more]

Foundlings

Foundlings are children abandoned, almost always by their mothers, soon after birth. There is rarely any intention that the child should die, but the mother is usually in such a mental stat... [more]

Fowler, Percy Leo

Fowler was born into a Lancashire family and emigrated with them to New Zealand in 1910. After several years in Auckland, the family homesteaded a 50-acre block of land in the Bay of Island... [more]

Fox, Ruth May

Fox was born to a married couple who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) five months after her birth. Her mother died in 1855 and her father was then sent... [more]

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