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Pomare Dynasty

The Pomare family dominated the politics of Tahiti from 1793 until 1880. The family genealogy shows a large number of adoptions. This is probably typical of Polynesian royal families, as ad... [more]

Ponsonby, Sarah

Ponsonby was the orphaned daughter of an upper class family of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy. Her mother died when she was three; her father remarried, but himself died when she was seven... [more]

Poutapu, Wiremu Te Ranga

Puutapu was born to Pouaka Winikerei and Rangitaau Paraki and adopted as a baby (see Tamaiti whangai ) by Princess Te Puea Herangi, the most powerful Maori woman of the early 20th century,... [more]

Poutu, Liana

Poutu is a tamaiti whangai, raised with her younger sister by her grandparents after their parents separated, when Liana was eight. She was an ideal child, academic and active in sports and... [more]

Powell, Peter John

Powell is a white man by birth but a Cheyenne Indian by adoption. His devotion to the ways and welfare of Native Americans has led to his formal adoption into at least four families of the ... [more]

Pratapsinhji I Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1)

Until the 19th century what is now India (like Europe) was a patchwork of over 650 princely states, like kingdoms, ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely... [more]

Presley, Priscilla Ann

Presley was born Priscilla Ann Wagner in Brooklyn to a US Army lieutenant and his wife, James and Anne Wagner. Her father died in a plane crash when she was a baby. Her mother remarried, an... [more]

Primakov, Yevgeny Maximovitch

Primakov was probably born Yona Finkelstein in Kiev, Ukraine, to Jewish parents, in 1929 (some sources give 1928). His childhood is something he refuses to discuss and is subject to specula... [more]

Pryderi

Pryderi is one of the main characters in the Welsh national epic, The Mabinogion. He was born the son of Pwyll and Rhiannon, but he disappeared immediately after his birth, taken by a myste... [more]

Pryse, Robert John

Pryse's mother died when he was four and his father when he was 11. He and his four brothers and sisters were raised in dire poverty and he had a total of four days of formal education in h... [more]