Single Adopters or Fosterers
Andal, Beley, Ennis, Brooks-Randolph, Angie, Brown, Leslie Calvin, Caprotti, Gian Giacomo, Chips, Horn, Cullen, Countée, Culpepper, Daunte, Day, Sabrina Sidney (see Hannibal, Abram Petrovich), Grahame, Kenneth, Grey Owl, Henson, Matthew Alexander, Jameson, Derek, Jones, Stewart Whyte McEwan, Juárez, Benito Pablo, Julian the Apostate (under Roman Empire), Kean, Edmund, Kitt, Eartha, Lapotaire, Jane, Melzi, Francesco, Michener, James Albert, Mills, Robert Scourfield, Moses, Saigo Siro, Strozzi, Barbara, Train, George Francis, Waters, William R., Williams, John Owen, Winfrey, Oprah,
Grey Owl
Note there are several versions of almost everything written about Grey Owl; in the following entry I give alternatives separated by a "/" without any particular preference for wh... [more]
Henson, Matthew Alexander
Henson was orphaned as a boy and was mistreated by his uncle. He ran away and lived on the streets for a while, until he was taken in by a Miss Janey, who ran a café where he worked and whe... [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]
Julian the Apostate (under Roman Empire)
Ancient Roman society institutionalized the adoption of adults. It was relatively common for a wealthy Roman couple to adopt an adult man, even a slave, as heir if they did not have any son... [more]
Kean, Edmund
Kean was the son of a poverty-stricken actress, Ann Carey, who more or less abandoned him on the streets, and (probably) an architect's clerk, Edmund Kean, who committed suicide when he was... [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]
Lapotaire, Jane
Lapotaire was born to an unmarried woman and an unknown father and was a long-term foster child with an English widow, who had been her own birth mother's foster mother, from babyhood to 19... [more]
Melzi, Francesco
Melzi was an Italian aristocrat and was, with Giacomo Caprotti , and possibly also Andrea Boltraffo and Cesare de Sesto, one of Leonardo da Vinci's adopted sons and students. Melzi joined ... [more]
