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Both his paternal grandmother and his mother were from Jewish families that had converted to Christianity.
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Both of Davis ' paternal grandparents had immigrated to North America from the region of Snowdonia in the North of Wales ; the rest of his ancestry can be traced to England.
" Both of his grandfathers were arrested on false charges in the 1930s ; his paternal grandfather was sent to exile in Siberia.
Both William's paternal uncles Thomas and John were MPs while his aunt Lucy married the leading Whig politician and soldier General James Stanhope.
Both of his paternal grandparents were English, and his maternal grandmother, Ada Jones from Pontypridd, had English parents.
Both her maternal and paternal families were wealthy ; six generations earlier, they had owned much of the land that became the state of Texas.
Both his paternal grandfather, John Quincy Adams, and great grandfather, John Adams, one of the most prominent among the Founding Fathers, had been U. S. Presidents, his maternal grandfather was a millionaire, and another great grandfather, Nathaniel Gorham, signed the Constitution.
Both his father and paternal grandfather are also named Rubens, and Barrichello shares his father's birthday: 23 May.
Both of his parents were of part Jewish ancestry ; his paternal grandmother was Jewish, as was one of his maternal great-grandfathers.
Both Cardozo's maternal grandparents, Sara Seixas and Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan, and his paternal grandparents, Ellen Hart and Michael H. Cardozo, were Sephardi Jews of the Portuguese Jewish community affiliated with Manhattan's Congregation Shearith Israel ; their families emigrated from England before the American Revolution, and were descended from Jews who left the Iberian Peninsula for Holland during the Inquisition.
Both of Wilson's grandfathers served in the two world wars, his paternal grandfather receiving both the British Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Croix de Guerre for his service in World War I ( 32 ).
Both his maternal and his paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Greece in the 1920s.
Both were named for their grandmothers: Eudocia for their maternal grandmother Aelia Eudocia, and Placidia for their paternal grandmother Galla Placidia.
Both her father, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, who died on 22 September 2011 was the Nawab, and paternal grandfather, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, are former captains of the Indian cricket team.
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Both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights ( his niece Rhoda Broughton would become a successful novelist ).
Both his grandmother, Alice Sheridan Le Fanu and great uncle, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, were playwrights.
Both sets of grandparents disapproved of their marriage because his father was a likely atheist and his mother was Eastern Orthodox, as well as the fact that his maternal grandmother died very young so his mother was expected to look after the family.
Both were shot in their heads, and the little girl in her last move was stretching out her hands to her dead grandmother.
Both cousins were reunited with their grandmother Iris, and both also rapidly aged to teenagers within days.
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Litters tend to average 5 – 8 kits but may be as many as 25 ( the largest in the order Carnivora ) Both the mother and the father help to raise their young.
Both Sagan and his sister agree that their father was not especially religious, but that their mother " definitely believed in God, and was active in the temple ... and served only Kosher meat ".
Both Cyprus and Jerusalem were governed by Hugh's mother Plaisance of Antioch, but John remained bailli for Hugh in Acre.
Both Matilda's mother and husband died in 1076, leaving her in sole control of her great Italian patrimony as well as lands in Lorraine, while at the same time matters in the conflict between Pope Gregory VII and the German king Henry IV were at a crisis point.
Both of his parents were lawyers in Elwood, his mother being one of the first women admitted to the bar in Indiana.
Both of Keynes's parents outlived him: father John Neville Keynes ( 1852 – 1949 ) by three years, and mother Florence Ada Keynes ( 1861 – 1958 ) by 12 years.
Both parents die when he is still a child ; the father falls from a tree, the mother dies of a milk fever, and his older sister Jeanne raises him.
Both of his grandsons were bullied at school, but Strauss used his considerable influence to prevent the boys or their mother from being sent to concentration camps.
Both of Sheen's parents were immigrants, his father from Parderrubias, Galicia, Spain ; and his mother from Borrisokane, County Tipperary, Ireland.
Both were the sons of Hermes, Agreus ' mother being the nymph Sose, a prophetess: he inherited his mother's gift of prophecy, and was also a skilled hunter.
Both before and after life, it is believed that this spirit-child exists in the Dreaming and is only initiated into life by being born through a mother.
Both versions of the myth stress Andhaka's unnatural lust for his mother, a product of his blindness and inability to recognize moral wrongs.
Both schools were served for many years by nuns of the 3rd Order of Dominicans ( OP ) from the mother house in Sparkill, NY.
Both statues were dedicated to four local women, including the donor's mother, each of whom had a long involvement with the library.
Both of his parents were immigrants from Italy: his father was from Ripa Teatina, Abruzzo, while his mother was from San Bartolomeo in Galdo, Campania.
Both du Bellay and Ronsard laid stress on the necessity of prudence in these borrowings, and both repudiated the charge of wishing to Latinize their mother tongue.
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