She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

In addition to being married to Jochebed, Amram is also described in the Bible as having been related to Jochebed prior to the marriage, although the exact relationship is uncertain ; some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Septuagint state that Jochebed was Amram's father's cousin, and others state that Amram was Jochebed's cousin, but the Masoretic text states that he was Jochebed's nephew.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

Before the publication of Villette, Charlotte received a proposal of marriage from Arthur Bell Nicholls, her father's curate who had long been in love with her.

Soon after his father's death Constantius is supposed to have ordered a massacre of his relatives descended from the second marriage of his paternal grandfather Constantius Chlorus, though the details are unclear.

Cesare's career was founded upon his father's ability to distribute patronage, along with his alliance with France ( reinforced by his marriage with Charlotte d ' Albret, sister of John III of Navarre ), in the course of the Italian Wars.

He had an older half-sister, Katherine, child of his father's first marriage to Dorothy Neville, and a younger sister, Mary.

Six of George's siblings reached maturity, including two older half-brothers, Lawrence and Augustine, from his father's first marriage to Jane Butler Washington, and four full siblings, Samuel, Elizabeth ( Betty ), John Augustine and Charles.

She also had a half-brother, Robert ( 1802 – 64 ), and half-sister, Fanny ( 1805 – 82 ), from her father's previous marriage to Harriet Poynton (? 1780 – 1809 ).

His marriage, in 1980, to a beautiful mulatto divorcée, Michèle Bennett, in a $ 3 million ceremony, provoked widespread opposition, as it was seen as a betrayal of his father's antipathy towards the mulatto elite.

In Russian, a father's first name becomes his child's " last " name until marriage ( e. g. " Hazel William "' s father's first name is " William ", or " Timothy Joseph "' s father's first name is " Joseph ").

Upon marriage, the woman takes her husband's last name, and her father's first name becomes her middle name ( e. g. " Hazel William " marries " Timothy Joseph Valov " and upon marriage her name becomes " Hazel William Valov ").

Daughters were not formally included in a father's will, although they did receive a portion of the family fortune through their marriage dowries.

Negotiations with Portugal for Charles's marriage to Catherine of Braganza began during his father's reign and upon the restoration, Queen Luísa of Portugal, acting as regent, reopened negotiations with England that resulted in an alliance.

It is probable that Æthelbald was involved in such a plot due to hearing about his father's marriage to Judith.

In 1949, and again in 1999, various morganatic members of the Bavarian Royal House were recognised as princes and princesses of Bavaria, with the current head of the house, Franz, Duke of Bavaria, being among the beneficiaries of his father's ruling, having been born of a marriage deemed morganatic.

The daughter was not only in her father's power to be given in marriage, but he might dedicate her to the service of a god as a vestal or a hierodule or give her as a concubine.

Sons also appear to have received their share on marriage, but then did not always leave their father's house ; they might bring their wives there.

She also has another half-sister, Christiane Nina Minnelli ( nicknamed Tina Nina ), from her father's second marriage.

He also had two half siblings from his father's first marriage.

In addition, Judith had an older half-sister, Beatrix I, Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim, born from her father's first marriage with Gunhilda of Denmark.

A younger half-brother was the parodist and caricaturist Max Beerbohm from his father's second marriage.

Hawks's family on his father's side were American pioneers and his ancestor John Hawks had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630.

Mitchell's family on her father's side were descendants of Thomas Mitchell, originally of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who settled in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1777, and served in the American Revolutionary War.

Birch was cast and scheduled to make her American stage debut in the off Broadway revival of Dracula, but was fired for reasons apparently involving her father's interference four days before the show's first performance.

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite ( Claudette Colbert ) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ( Clark Gable ).

Initially scheduled for release on a date to coincide with the tenth anniversary of her father's death, Arista Records decided to delay, then cancel the American release.

His mother's ancestry includes Swedish descent, and his father's ancestry includes his great-grandmother of Cherokee Native American descent, German and Irish.

Citing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Jack was arguing to bring his father's remains to the reservation in Oklahoma, where they would be buried near those of his father, sisters and brother, a mile from the place he was born.

Her father's earlier business venture had depended at least in part upon slave labour, and the outcome of the American Civil War caused the family to live in near-poverty for several years before Nancy was born.

Flirting with Disaster is a 1996 American comedy film written and directed by David O. Russell about a young father's search for his biological parents.

The present-day intersection of Interstate 84 and Ludingtonville Road was the home of Col. Henry Ludington and his daughter Sybil, who rode one night in 1777 to call up her father's militia during the American Revolutionary War.

Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have invented the cheeseburger in 1926 at the age of 16 when he was working as a fry cook at his father's Pasadena, California sandwich shop, " The Rite Spot ," and " experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger.

The fifth of eleven children of John Slocombe and Sarah Jane Slocombe née Southern, Joshua descended, on his father's side, from a Quaker, known as " John the Exile " who left the United States shortly after 1780 because of his opposition to the American War for Independence.

Kate herself experienced a happy childhood, even though it was saddened by the American Civil War and her father's death.

Robert John Downey, Jr. ( born April 4, 1965 ) is an American actor who made his screen debut at the age of five, appearing in his father's film Pound.

Lomax, now 17, therefore took a break from studying to join his father's folk song collecting field trips for the Library of Congress, co-authoring American Ballads and Folk Songs ( 1934 ) and Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly ( 1936 ).

Following a Native American practice, the man who would become Logan the Mingo took the name " James Logan " out of admiration for his father's friend.

Morgan went into banking in 1857 at his father's London branch, moving to New York City in 1858 where he worked at the banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Company, the American representatives of George Peabody & Company.

His father's line emigrated to the North American colonies, arriving in New York in 1710, the year of a massive immigration of nearly 2800 Palatine Germans, whose transportation of refugees from London was paid by Queen Anne's government of England.

Battles he had with the Board of Trade over his father's unpaid salary lasted for years, and attempts to sell the land in the colonies went nowhere ; these lands were confiscated during the American Revolution, and even his heirs were unable to recover any kind of compensation for them.

She was also the great-granddaughter on her father's side of Oakes Ames ( 1804 – 1873 ), an industrialist and congressman who was impeached in the Crédit Mobilier railroad scandal of 1872 ; and Governor-General of New Orleans Benjamin Franklin Butler, an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as the 33rd Governor of Massachusetts.

In 1932, Forrest Mars, son of American candy maker Frank C. Mars, rented a factory in Slough and with a staff of twelve people, began manufacturing a chocolate bar consisting of nougat and caramel covered in milk chocolate, modelled after his father's Milky Way bar, which was already popular in the U. S. Today the basic recipe is unaltered but the size of the bar and the proportions of the main components have changed over the years.

Jeff followed his father's footsteps upon the latter's death, writing historical fiction and documenting the American wars and their most historically relevant characters.

He was raised in his Irish American father's Catholic religion, remaining unaware that his mother was Jewish until his early teenage years.

Her father's sudden if honourable death — he unsuccessfully tries to prevent the lynching of an innocent young African American and is stabbed in the process by an angry and drunken young man — adds to the gloom that starts creeping into her life, especially when she sees that, as a widow, her mother suddenly loses all her will to live.

In August 2011, American actress with Albanian origin Eliza Dushku visited Albania to film a promotional documentary on her father's country of origin.