In Esther 2: 5 – 6, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE: " Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

On his father's side, only a single relative is known to have been a professional musician: Heinrich Thering, Telemann's great-grandfather, served as Kantor at Halberstadt in the late 16th century.

The historic Frank-Loeb house is another relic of the Jewish presence in Landau: its proprietor in the late 19th Century was Zacharias Frank, great-grandfather of Anne Frank.

Severus is described as Marcus ' " maternal great-grandfather "; he is probably the stepfather of the elder Lucilla.

Her paternal great-grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, owned the house which is now Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters Museum.

Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy — a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.

She is persuaded to release him by Odysseus ' great-grandfather, the messenger god Hermes, who has been sent by Zeus in response to Athena's plea.

The first such case mentioned in the Bible is that of Enoch ( son of Jared, great-grandfather of Noah, and father of Methuselah ).

( Coincidentally, Zip the What-Is-Its real name was William Henry Jackson or Johnson ( according to various sources ); Griffith's full name is William Henry Jackson Griffith, after his great-grandfather, the noted photographer.

Somers Point, N. J., is named after Richard's great-grandfather.

In the passage, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar ( in 597 BC ).

He is the elder son of Jean Edmond Lucien Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1894 – 1982 ), a civil servant, and his wife, Marthe Clémence Jacqueline Marie ( May ) Bardoux, who was a daughter of senator and academic Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux and a great-granddaughter of minister of state education Agénor Bardoux, also a granddaughter of historian Georges Picot and niece of diplomat François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard ( 1740 – 1769 ) through his great-grandfather Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, and by whom Giscard d ' Estaing was a multiple descendant of Charlemagne.

Fagrskinna does not mention any of these details, but calls Ragnhild the daughter of Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, who in Heimskringlas version is her great-grandfather.

James McQueen, great-grandfather of Osceola is buried in the Indian cemetery.

Lewis Lapham, a founder of Texaco and great-grandfather of long-time Harper's Magazine editor Lewis H. Lapham, spent summers with his family at their estate that is now Waveny Park next to Talmadge Hill and the Merritt Parkway.

Gumlog is the ancestral home of VP candidate Senator John Edwards ’ great-grandfather Ruck Edwards.

The mill was built by Jonathan Singletary Dunham ( married to Mary Bloomfield, relative of Joseph Bloomfield ), who is President Barack Obama ’ s eighth great-grandfather.

* The Jonathan Singletary Dunham House was built near the location of the earliest grist mill in New Jersey by Jonathan Singletary Dunham who was a Member of the New Jersey Provincial Congress, and is President Barack Obama ’ s eighth great-grandfather.

* Genealogical material about Vortigern's ancestry, the names of his four sons ( Vortimer, Pascent, Catigern, Faustus ), a father ( Vitalis ), a grandfather ( Vitalinus ) and a great-grandfather who is probably just an eponym ( Gloui ) which associates Vortigern with Glevum, the civitas of Gloucester.

Although his ' great-grandfather ' was Prince Edmund, he is much more intelligent, reserved, charming, handsome and witty than his ancestor.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's great-grandfather, the mason Franz Mozart, lived in the Fuggerei between 1681 and 1694, and is commemorated today by a stone plaque.

When this " new " man of distinction is asked, he reveals that he inherited his wealth from his great-grandfather, a policeman who had insisted despite all opposition that there was an assassination attempt on the president that evening.

Her great-grandfather was an Italian who had come to Wexford in the 18th century.

Her Italian surname stems from her great-grandfather, a Sicilian slater who emigrated to Germany during the 19th century.

His grandfather, it is said, had been mayor of Truro, his great-grandfather an Italian musician.

His great-grandfather, Arundel Elias Disney, had emigrated from Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland where he was born in 1801.

Durkheim was born in Épinal in Lorraine, coming from a long line of devout French Jews ; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been rabbis.

He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather.

Louis XV was born in the Palace of Versailles on 15 February 1710 during the reign of his great-grandfather Louis XIV.

Family tradition says that Crockett's father was born on the voyage to America from Ireland, though in fact Crockett's great-grandfather, William David Crockett, was registered as having been born in New Rochelle, New York in 1709.

* Jonathan Singletary Dunham ( 1640 – 1724 ), Member of the New Jersey Provincial Congress, and President Barack Obama ’ s eighth great-grandfather, and the first of Obama ’ s ancestors to be born in North America.

Lady Osler ( Grace Revere ) was born in Boston in 1854 ; her paternal great-grandfather was Paul Revere.

He was born in Lübeck to a musical family ; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all musicians.

The programme revealed that Gibb's paternal great-grandfather was born into poverty in Paisley and went on to become a decorated soldier and his paternal great-grandmother was a midwife.

Philip was born in Bruges, in the County of Flanders ( today in Belgium ) and was named after his great-grandfather, Philip the Good.

Eisner was born in Mount Kisco, New York, the son of Margaret ( née Dammann ) and Lester Eisner, Jr. His great-grandfather, Sigmund Eisner, was one of the first uniform suppliers to the Boy Scouts of America.

Turner was born in Springfield, Missouri, the daughter of Patsy ( née Magee ) and Allen Richard Turner, a U. S. Foreign Service officer who grew up in China ( where Turner's great-grandfather had been a Methodist Christian missionary ).

His paternal great-grandfather, Joseph La Follette, was born in France, emigrated to New Jersey, fought in the American Revolutionary War, led his family through the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky, and crossed the Ohio River into Indiana with his son, Jesse LaFollette.

His great-grandfather Richard Floyd was born in Brecknockshire, Wales in about 1620 and settled in the Province of New York.

Community records in Sandersville, where she was born, indicate her father died at age 107 and her great-grandfather died at age 110.

John Davison Rockefeller IV was born at New York Hospital in New York City to John D. Rockefeller III and Blanchette Ferry Hooker just 26 days after the death of his great-grandfather John D. Rockefeller.

Mary's paternal great-grandfather, David Levi Todd, was born in County Longford, Ireland, and emigrated through Pennsylvania to Kentucky.

* The ancestors of Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley reportedly hail from Rye ; his most recent ancestor, great-grandfather Frederick, was born in the town in 1820.

Castle was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of Louisa Johnston ( née Bache ) and James Manderson Castle, Jr. One of Castle's maternal great-great-grandfathers was Virginia Senator John W. Johnston, and Castle's fifth great-grandfather was founding father Benjamin Franklin.

Al-Idrisi was born in, where his great-grandfather had fled after the fall of in.

The princess, whose name is pronounced ING-ree in Norway, was named in part after her great-grandfather, Olav V of Norway, ( who was born Alexander Edward Christian Frederick ).

Many of these new establishments were either owned, started, or financed by George Tillson, great-grandfather of Tillson Harrison, a Chinese humanitarian born in Tillsonburg.

A scion of the Adams family that gave the country two presidents, Charles Francis III was born in Quincy, Massachusetts to John Quincy Adams II ( 1833 – 1894 ); the oldest son of the Secretary's grandfather Charles Francis Adams, Sr .; his great-grandfather was sixth U. S. President John Quincy Adams ; and his great-great-grandfather was second U. S. President John Adams.

Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater, LVO, PC ( born 9 January 1942 ), succeeded his great-grandfather in the Viscountcy of Ullswater in 1949.