Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

The power of the abbot was paternal but absolute, limited, however, by the canon law.

Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.

While his paternal family was from the town of Velletri, about from Rome, Augustus was born in the city of Rome on 23 September 63 BC.

His paternal great-grandfather was a military tribune in Sicily during the Second Punic War.

Under the care of his mother, he was given not only that religious and Oriental education which his position as the religious leader of the Ismailis made indispensable, but a sound European training, a boon denied to his father and paternal grandfather.

Vipsania Marcella was Agrippa ’ s second child from his second marriage to Augustus ’ first niece and the paternal cousin of Julia the Elder, Claudia Marcella Major.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Apart from being the late maternal grandmother of Nero, she was the late paternal grandmother of Princess Julia Drusilla, the child of Caligula.

Through Nero, Agrippina was the paternal great-grandmother of Claudia Augusta, ( Nero's only child through his second marriage to Poppaea Sabina ).

Claudius was Agrippina's paternal uncle and third husband.

This in turn meant that Tiberius was also Agrippina's adoptive grandfather in addition to her paternal great-uncle.

Agrippina the Younger was thereafter supervised by her mother, her paternal grandmother Antonia Minor, and her great-grandmother, Livia, all of them notable, influential, and powerful figures from whom she learnt how to survive.

Messalina was Agrippina ’ s second paternal cousin.

Regardless, for Agrippina ’ s seduction, it was a help that she had the niece ’ s privilege of kissing and caressing her paternal uncle.

She also eliminated or removed anyone who she considered was a potential threat to her position and the future of her son, one of her victims being Lucius ' second paternal aunt and Messalina's mother Domitia Lepida the Younger.

He was born into a family of writers, the best known of whom was his paternal aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who wrote poetry and essays as well as early children's literature.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

He was also a direct descendant of Abu Bakr from his maternal side, as well as being a paternal descendant of Ali from his father's side.

He was also a paternal grandfather of Alexander the Great.

Their loss, however, was compensated by the tender solicitude and care of his paternal grandfather and grandmother, the latter of whom lived to experience in her turn the kindest personal attention from her grandson, who, when he had the means, gave her an asylum in his house at Rome.

'' and others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood,, and news of her commencing again her piano lessons, her private school, a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough, wounded, from the war in Europe.

`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.

Lizzie stated during the inquest that while her father and uncle were in the sitting room the afternoon before the murders, she had been disturbed by their voices and had closed her door, even though it was a very hot day.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

A 24-year-old Atlanta man was arrested Sunday after breaking into the home of relatives in search of his wife, hitting his uncle with a rock and assaulting two police officers who tried to subdue him, police said.

She promised that she would soon take a few day's leave and visit the uncle she had never seen, on the island of Oyajima -- which was not very far from Yokosuka.

When his uncle Tughril died he was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother.

Abner spent his childhood in Auburn and later was sent to Cooperstown to live with his uncle and attend a private preparatory high school.

Albert was born at Ansbach and, having lost his father Casimir in 1527, he came under the guardianship of his uncle George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, a strong adherent of Protestantism.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

Antonia Minor was the second daughter born to Octavia Minor and triumvir Mark Antony, hence Antonia ’ s maternal uncle was Augustus.

Germanicus was always favored by his great uncle and hoped that he would succeed Tiberius, who had been adopted by Augustus as his heir and successor.

Germanicus was a favorite of his great-uncle Augustus, who hoped that Germanicus would succeed his uncle Tiberius, who was Augustus's own adopted son and heir.

In Roman society, an uncle ( Claudius ) marrying his niece ( Agrippina ) was considered incestuous, and obviously immoral.

Silanus committed suicide on the day that Agrippina married her uncle, and Calvina was exiled from Italy in early 49.

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 50 was adopted by his great maternal uncle and stepfather.

As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, Alexander I was an uncle of Alexander the Great.

Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained in art by a close friend, often referred to as his ' uncle ', the mannerist painter Agnolo Bronzino, whose name he sometimes assumed in his pictures.

The situation became unstable and, in the following year, being led by what he afterwards discovered to be false representations, Afonso declared Peter a rebel and defeated his army in the Battle of Alfarrobeira, in which his uncle ( and father-in-law ) was killed.

Finished on April 24, 1459, it was sent to Portugal with a letter to Prince Henry the Navigator, Afonso's uncle, encouraging further funding of exploration trips.