Other or Unknown Reasons for Serial Placement
Abramovich, Roman, Akabusi, Kriss, Baiul, Oksana, Child Migrants, Chips, Horn, Danilova, Alexandra Dyonysievna, Dodson, Patrick, Finch, Peter, Fox, Ruth May, Garrison, William Lloyd, Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, Griffis, Joseph, Hĺkon of Trondhjem (under Norwegian Ruling Families), Hensley, Albert, Hoo-moo-thy-ah, Hoover, Herbert Clark, Jameson, Derek, Jones, Stewart Whyte McEwan, Juárez, Benito Pablo, Kitt, Eartha, Li Lu, Lin Huoping, Mason, Sophia Thomas, McAuley, Catherine, Monroe, William Smith, Morcom, Luke Sidney, Pascale, Lorraine, Rajaram II Raje Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1), Robbins, Harold, Rowell, Victoria, Schuon, Frithjof (under Honorific Adoption), Te Hau, Matiu Te Auripo, Tolkien, J.R.R., Trapp Family, Verdingkinder, Waaka, Te Kari, Ward, Glenyse, Weinstock, Arnold,
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Gaskell's mother died before she was one month old, and she was raised partly by an aunt, but her childhood was spent in a succession of families rather than with her father. She was a f... [more]
Griffis, Joseph
Griffis was born to a white father, a famous scout, and a mother who was half Osage (there is some dispute about this, but Griffis apparently believed he was a Native American, always ident... [more]
Hĺkon of Trondhjem (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
In the Middle Ages fostering was practiced between the great families of Norway, possibly as a means of cementing interfamily alliances or demonstrating reciprocal status relationships. Acc... [more]
Hensley, Albert
Hensley's mother died when he was a baby and he was fostered by his grandmother for five years, until she died. Then he went through a series of foster families for two years, before going ... [more]
Hoo-moo-thy-ah
Hoo-moo-thy-ah was born into a traditionalist Yavapai family in Arizona, just before the establishment of Ft. McDowell, built by the US government to subjugate his people. When he was about... [more]
Hoover, Herbert Clark
Hoover's father died when he was six and his mother when he was nine. He and his brother and sister were separated and raised by uncles. Hoover was sent from Iowa to live with an uncle in O... [more]
Jameson, Derek
Jameson was born to an unmarried woman and raised by Agnes Wren, who informally fostered a succession of homeless children. When he was seven or eight he discovered that one of the other pe... [more]
Jones, Stewart Whyte McEwan
Jones was born to an unmarried school teacher in Scotland before World War II. She could not keep him and he was adopted by an elderly single woman who had had a nervous breakdown, as part o... [more]
Juárez, Benito Pablo
Juárez was born to a poor Zapotec family in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca state, and was orphaned when he was three. He and his two sisters lived first with their grandparents and then with an... [more]
Kitt, Eartha
Kitt was given by her mother to another woman to raise on a South Carolina plantation. When she was eight she was sent to Harlem to another woman. She has never discovered who her parents w... [more]
