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, Håkon 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,

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Abramovich, Roman

Abramovich was born in Saratov in southern Russia. His mother died when he was 18 months old, and his father was killed in a construction accident when he was four. He was first taken to li... [more]

Akabusi, Kriss

Akabusi was born an Igbo prince in Nigeria, but taken to England as a child, where he went into care when his mother returned to Nigeria. He spent time in a children's home and also had mul... [more]

Baiul, Oksana

Baiul was born in Dnepropetrovsk. Different sources give the year as 1977 or 1978 and the date as 26 February, 16 October and 16 and 26 November. Her surname is spelled Bayul or Baiul, acco... [more]

Child Migrants

These are the children sent from Britain and Ireland to colonies and former colonies with the express intention of helping to culturally swamp the native peoples by increasing the white pop... [more]

Chips, Horn

Horn Chips was orphaned as a young child and raised by his grandmother. Later he was adopted by the uncle of Crazy Horse. He had the gift of prophecy, could change the weather and find l... [more]

Danilova, Alexandra Dyonysievna

Danilova was born near St. Petersburg and both her parents died when she was three. She and her older sister were then brought up either by relatives, her godmother and foster parents, and ... [more]

Dodson, Patrick

According to the account given in chapters 11-13 of Chatwin's The Songlines, Dodson (called Dan Flynn by Chatwin) was a foundling, left in a store at Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia, by... [more]

Finch, Peter

Finch's mother was married, but his father may have been (some sources say definitely was) another man. He was kidnapped from his mother's care by his legal father when he was two and sent ... [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]

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]