Birth Sibling(s) Remained With or Returned to Birth Family, Page 2

Ellison, Edward Pohau

Ellison was descended on both sides from Maori chiefs and also from English whalers and farmers. He was the 11th of 12 children, and was given to his father's cousin Harirota Eyes and her h... [more]

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Faka'osilea, Lorris

Faka'osilea was born Lorris Bristow and given by her parents to her mother's childless sister and her husband to raise. She was brought up at Ngaruawahia, center of the Maori King Movement,... [more]

Gardiner, Wira

Gardiner is the third of 18 children. After a "juvenile raid" on a department store in Rotorua he was made a ward of court at the age of 10 and put into his grandparents' custody ... [more]

Garrison, William Lloyd

Garrison was born, his parents' fourth child, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. His father deserted the family before he was three (he never saw him again) and after a few years, when his moth... [more]

God's Wife

Prior to the XXIst Dynasty of ancient Egypt the title God's Wife was given to Pharaoh's wife. During the XXIst Dynasty it was transferred to Pharaoh's daughter, who was consecrated as an ob... [more]

Guang Xu (under Chinese Qing Dynasty)

For nearly 200 years the Qing dynasty practiced a form of adoption to secure orderly succession to the throne when the emperor was childless. It was instituted by the Yong Zheng Empero... [more]

Hakiwai, Reremoana

Hakiwai was the fourth child born to a farming family at Manutuke. As a baby she became the tamaiti whangai of Tamati Pewhairangi of Tokomaru Bay, where she stayed until she was sent to a b... [more]

Harrison, Pakariki

Paki Harrison is the eldest of 21 children, and was a tamaiti whangai (foster child) of his grandparents until he was 17 or 18. He comes from a long line of Maori carvers and began carving ... [more]

Houdini, Harry

Houdini was born in Budapest, Hungary, the son of a Jewish rabbi and his wife. The family immigrated to the USA when he was four, and settled in Appleton, Wisconsin. The family was so poor ... [more]

Hura, Maata Te Reo

Hura was one of seven children of Te Urumanaao Ngapaki and Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana at Orokeinui, Waipu block. Until she was 14 she was the tamaiti whangai of elderly relatives named Wiremu... [more]

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