`` My father and mother died when I was two years old '', I said.

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

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Alp Arslan died four days later from this wound on 25 November 1072 in his 42nd year, and was taken to Merv to be buried next to his father Chaghri Beg.

At the age of 13, Mackenzie's father died, and he was forced to end his formal education in order to help support his family.

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.

In 59 BC, when he was four years old, his father died.

His father, for example, was guillotined during the French Revolution and his wife died shortly after their marriage.

" He died three days later on March 4 ; Louisa May died only two days after her father.

Several attempts to find a new home failed ; one such stop was on Sicily where in Drepanum, on the island's western coast, his father, Anchises, died peacefully.

After the sojourn in Carthage, the Trojans returned to Sicily where Aeneas organizes funeral games to honor his father, who had died a year before.

In 12 BC, Agrippina ’ s father died.

Alexander's father died on 8 July 1249 and he became king at the age of seven, inaugurated at Scone on 13 July 1249.

The young Alexios IV was strangled in prison, while his father Isaac died shortly afterwards, his death variously attributed to fright, sorrow, or foul play.

On 26 June, Alexei died in the Petropavlovskaya fortress in Saint Petersburg, two days after the senate had condemned him to death for conspiring rebellion against his father, and for hoping for the cooperation of the common people and the armed intervention of his brother-in-law, the emperor.

Jackson's father died in an accident in February 1767, at the age of 29, three weeks before his son Andrew was born in the Waxhaws area.

On 7 January 1325, Afonso's father died and he became king, taking full revenge on his brother.

Ammonius ' father, Hermias, died when he was a child, and his mother, Aedesia, raised him and his brother, Heliodorus, in Alexandria.

Amyntas III ( Greek: Ἀμύντας Γ ΄, died 370 BC ), son of Arrhidaeus and father of Philip II, was king of Macedon in 393 BC, and again from 392 to 370 BC.

In 1320, Andronikos accidentally murdered his brother Manuel, whereupon their father died of grief.

His father died when he was two years old and he remained under the guardianship of his cousin, Guillaume Jourdain, count of Cerdagne ( d. 1109 ), until he was five.

On 8 March 1873, at the urging of his father, the twenty-eight-year-old ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá married Fátimih Nahrí of Isfahán ( 1847 – 1938 ) a twenty-five-year-old noblewoman.

His father was Henry Attlee ( 1841 – 1908 ), a solicitor, and his mother was Ellen Bravery Watson ( 1847 – 1920 ).

Four years later in 1847, his father died leaving his mother on a meager pension.

In 1847, his father was chosen as the heir presumptive to the Danish throne, because Frederick's mother Louise of Hesse-Kassel was a close relative of the last Danish king of the Oldenburg main line ( the other heirs of the House of Hesse renounced their claims to the Danish throne in favour of Louise and her husband ).

In addition to his children with his wife, Sir William Wilde was the father of three children born out of wedlock before his marriage: Henry Wilson, born in 1838, and Emily and Mary Wilde, born in 1847 and 1849, respectively, of different parentage to Henry.

On 6th February 1847 Lumsden wrote to his father: ".. I have just been nominated to raise the corps of Guides.

His father, John Dyer Collier ( 1762 – 1825 ), was a successful journalist, and his connection with the press obtained for his son a position on the Morning Chronicle as leader writer, dramatic critic and reporter, which continued till 1847 ; he was also for some time a reporter for The Times.

Tyagaraja ( 1759 – 1847 ), Muthuswami Dikshitar ( 1776 – 1827 ) and Syama Sastri ( 1762 – 1827 ) are known as the Trinity of Carnatic music, while Purandara Dasa ( 1480 – 1564 ) is the father of Carnatic music.

His father, who, as heir to the 4th Earl of Rosebery, was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny, was MP for Stirling from 1832 to 1847 and served as First Lord of the Admiralty under Lord Melbourne.

Meanwhile he had also studied for short periods at Heidelberg and Berlin, and in 1847 he entered Manchester New College with the idea of becoming a minister like his father, and studied there under James Martineau.

As soon as he turned 25 in 1847, he informed his father of his intention to marry the lady, and in fact did so on 22 February 1848, the month of the Paris revolt.

By this mariage de Lesseps became the father of five sons: Charles Théodore de Lesseps ( 1838 – 1838 ), Charles Aimé de Lesseps ( 1840 – 1923 ), Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps ( 1842 – 1846 ), Ferdinand Victor de Lesseps ( 1847 – 1853 ) and Aimé Victor de Lesseps ( 1848 – 1896 ).

Marlborough was Member of Parliament for Woodstock from 1844 to 1845 and again from 1847 to 1857, when he succeeded his father in the dukedom and entered the House of Lords.

Grosvenor was elected as Whig MP for Chester in 1847 and continued to represent that constituency until, on the death of his father in 1869, he succeeded as 3rd Marquess of Westminster and entered the House of Lords.

In 1847 his father nominated him to travel to India and collect plants for Kew.

In 1847, Mosby enrolled at Hampden-Sydney College, where his father was an alumn.

He was born to Demetrio Yglesias Llorente and Eudoxia Castro Fernandez, whose father was also president, the " Founder of the Republic " José María Castro who served two terms, 1847 – 1849 and 1866 – 1868.

He was the father of Archibald Cochrane ( 1847 – 1952 ) and Sir Edward Owen Cochrane ( 1881 – 1972 ), both Rear-Admirals in the Royal Navy.

Nadya ’ s father, Konstantin Ignat ’ evich Krupski, was orphaned in 1847 at nine years of age.

Like his father he was a General in the Army and also served as Governor General of Canada from 1846 to 1847.

He began his military career in 1847, fighting the invaders from the United States after they killed his father, a farmer.

Arthur Basil Brooke ( 1847 – 1884 ), younger son of the second Baronet, was the father of Sir Basil Vernon Brooke ( 1876 – 1945 ), a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy, and of Sir Bertram Norman Sergison-Brooke ( b. 1880 ), a Lieutenant-General in the British Army.

The brothers Joseph and Richard retired around 1839 and the death of their father in July 1847 made John Rylands sole proprietor.

He had assumed by Royal license the surname of Bosville in 1832 and had in 1847 inherited his father ’ s Bosville estates in Yorkshire by Act of Parliament.

Caroline was born into a family with a long ecclesiastic history — her father, John Foley, served as the vicar of Wadhurst from 1847 – 88 ; her grandfather and great grandfather had served as rector of Holt, Worcestershire and vicar of Mordiford, Herefordshire, respectively.