Cecilia " Leilie " Beaux and her sister Etta were subsequently raised by their maternal grandmother and aunts, primarily in Philadelphia.

His aunts included Hollywood film stars Constance and Joan Bennett, from whom he was estranged, and his maternal grandfather was the celebrated matinée idol Richard Bennett.

The only two people who supported Uthman's decision were Saadi, one of his maternal aunts, and Umm Kulthum, who was his stepsister and who had also converted to Islam.

Born in the city of Bombay the son of a civil servant, he was brought up in London and Hampshire by his maternal aunts due to the death of his mother in 1886 and his father in 1894.

She was named after her great-grandmother, Queen Alexandra, her maternal grandmother, Princess Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, and both of her maternal aunts, Countess Karl Theodor of Törring-Jettenbach and Princess Paul of Yugoslavia.

Her maternal aunts included Joan of England, Queen of Scotland, Isabella of England, and Joan, Lady of Wales.

Carl Tersmeden held a speech to her calling her future fate as more beautiful than she could imagine, the wives of two noblemen of the court visited her to make her give in, her mother, her paternal and maternal aunts all did what they could, and eventually, her resistance was broken.

Two of Baldwin's other first cousins were the Count Amadeus III of Savoy and the Margrave William V of Montferrat ; both were sons of one of his maternal aunts, Gisela of Burgundy, who had married firstly with Humbert II of Savoy ( father of Amadeus III ) and secondly with Renier I of Montferrat ( father of William V ).

His maternal aunts included Cecily Neville, through whom he was closely related to the House of York: Edward IV of England, Margaret of York, George, Duke of Clarence and Richard III of England were all first cousins.

His godparents were his paternal grandmother Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales ( his paternal uncle ), his paternal aunts Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and the Marchioness of Lorne, Princess Frederica of Hanover ( his father's second cousin ), his maternal uncle Alexis, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt and his maternal grandfather George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont ( neither of whom could attend ).

He had been the subject of a bitter custody battle between his father and his two maternal aunts ( who had wanted him to be placed under the guardianship of his great-uncle the Duke of Wellington ) and later fought a legal battle with his father over the sale of contents of the family seat Draycot House.

Gambier Parry's parents, Richard and Mary Parry of Banstead, Surrey, died when he was young and he was raised by his maternal aunts and uncles, the Gambiers.

Her maternal aunts were Roman Empress Vibia Sabina and Matidia Minor.

Raine noted that poetry was deeply ingrained in the daily lives of her maternal ancestors: " On my mother's side I inherited Scotland's songs and ballads … sung or recited by my mother, aunts and grandmothers, who had learnt it from their mothers and grandmothers … Poetry was the very essence of life.

Lonely and nearly penniless, hard-bitten Robert eventually made his way back to England, where one of his maternal aunts took him in.

Manuel had been married to two of Eleanor's maternal aunts.

Her first two names were after her maternal aunts, Justa and Grata, the daughters of Valentinian I and Justina, and the third for the emperor who reigned at the time of her birth, her half-uncle Honorius.

They address their maternal uncle as naimiwa and maternal aunts as mwendya and for their paternal uncle and aunt as ' mwendw ' au '.

He was brought up by his mother, Jeanette Neuburg née Jacobs ( 1855-1939 ), and his maternal aunts.

Immigrants from Wales, Wright's maternal grandfather and uncle were Unitarian ministers, and his two aunts began a co-educational school in the family valley in 1887.

mothers, daughters, sisters, paternal aunts, maternal aunts and nieces ( whether sister's or brother's daughters ).

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

Emperors Caracalla and Publius Septimius Geta, were his mother's maternal cousins.

His maternal grandparents were King Levon II of Armenia and Queen Keran of Armenia.

Her family hailed from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery.

Lancaster's maternal grandparents were immigrants to the U. S. from Belfast and descendants of English immigrants to Ireland.

His maternal grandparents were Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, Augustus ' sister, and therefore the great-great grandnephew of Gaius Julius Caesar.

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

Guest's maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia.

Barks once stated that his paternal ancestors were Dutch and his maternal ancestors were Scottish.

His maternal grandparents were Carl Johnson and his wife Suzanna Massey, but little else is known about his ancestors.

However, his relatives were not major court officials ; documents show that El Cid's paternal grandfather, Lain, confirmed only five documents of Ferdinand I's, his maternal grandfather, Rodrigo Alvarez, certified only two of Sancho II's, and El Cid's own father confirmed only one.

His maternal grandparents were Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort.

Because consorts of crown princes, younger sons, and emperors were generally Fujiwara women, the male heads of the Fujiwara house were often the father-in-law, brother-in-law, uncle, or maternal grandfather of the emperor.

In ancient China, first cousins with the same surnames ( i. e., those born to the father's brothers ) were not permitted to marry, while those with different surnames ( i. e., maternal cousins and paternal cousins born to the father's sisters ) were.

At the same time as the generation of the gynogenetic and androgenetic embryos discussed above, mouse embryos were also being generated that contained only small regions that were derived from either a paternal or maternal source.

He was the father of Indira Gandhi and the maternal grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi, who were to later serve as the third and sixth Prime Ministers of India, respectively.

Voight's paternal grandfather was a Slovak immigrant from Košice, then under Austro-Hungarian rule, while his maternal grandfather and his maternal grandmother's parents were immigrants from Germany.

Although the events were clearly a dynastic struggle, " the division was not between native barons and newcomers from the West, but between the king's maternal and paternal kin.

His maternal grandparents were Benjamin Davis Wilson ( December 1, 1811 to March 11, 1878 ), mayor of Los Angeles in 1851 – 1852 and the namesake of Southern California's Mount Wilson, and his second wife, Margaret Hereford.

Her maternal grandparents were Malcolm III of Scotland and Saint Margaret of Scotland.

His maternal grandfather, James Stanihurst, had been speaker of the Irish parliament, and his father Arnold Ussher was a clerk in chancery who married Margaret Stanihurst.

Darnley's maternal grandparents were Archibald Douglas, sixth Earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England, and widow of James IV, king of Scots.

Her maternal grandparents were John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and his second wife Lady Margaret Beauchamp.

His eldest brother John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln ( c. 1464-1487 ), was named heir to the throne by his maternal uncle, Richard III of England, who gave him a pension and the reversion of the estates of Lady Margaret Beaufort.

In 2000, the band released The Proximity Effect in the United States on their own label, MarDev ( named after Caws ' maternal grandmother, Margaret Devereux Lippitt, daughter of the painter Margaret Walthour Lippitt ), after being dropped by Elektra.

Richard was baptised in the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 20 October 1944 by Lord Lang of Lambeth and his godparents were the Queen ( his paternal aunt and wife of George VI ), Princess Marie Louise ( his cousin ), the Countess of Athlone ( his cousin, for whom her daughter, the Lady May Abel Smith stood proxy ), the Duke of Buccleuch ( his maternal uncle ), the Marquess of Cambridge ( his cousin ), the Lady Sybil Phipps ( his maternal aunt ), and General the Hon Sir Harold Alexander ( for whom his wife, the Lady Margaret Alexander, stood proxy ).

His first name derives from a maternal great-grandmother, Margaret Johns, who passed it on to her sons.

Lord Titchfield was the eldest son of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland and Margaret Cavendish-Harley and inherited many lands from his mother and his maternal grandmother.

His godparents were: King George VI ( his paternal uncle ); Queen Mary ( his paternal grandmother ); Princess Helena Victoria ( his cousin ); the Lady Margaret Hawkins ( his maternal aunt ); Major the Lord William Montagu Douglas Scott ( his maternal uncle ); and the Viscount Gort ( who was unable to attend ).

As a child, she spent some of her time at the home of her maternal grandparents John B. Kelly, Sr. and Margaret Major in Philadelphia.

Ronald Reagan's maternal great-great grand-parents, Claude Wilson and Margaret Downey were married at Paisley

Her maternal grandparents were Thomas I of Savoy and Margaret of Geneva.

However, on his death three years later the lordship passed to his maternal aunt Margaret Brisbane, while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his cousin and heir-male, the fifth Baronet.

Margaret eventually stops " talking to God " after being in the middle of a confrontation between her parents and maternal grandparents.

His maternal grandparents were Americans Margaret Tyndal ( Winthrop ) and James Grant Forbes.

His maternal grandparents were Saint Louis IX and Margaret of Provence.

On August 16, 1916, he married Anna Margaret Johnson in Iowa where she lived with her maternal grandparents and had taken their name, Munch.

His maternal grandparents were William Graham, 3rd Earl of Menteith and Margaret Moubray.

" Her maternal grandfather, Michael De Carlo, was Sicilian-born, and her maternal grandmother, Margaret Purvis, was Scottish-born.