In mid-1917 ten-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother – both newly arrived in the UK from South Africa – were staying with Frances ' aunt, Elsie Wright's mother, in the village of Cottingley in West Yorkshire ; Elsie was then 16 years old.

Because Frances and Elsie insisted that the fairies would not show themselves if others were watching, Elsie's mother was persuaded to visit her sister's for tea, leaving the girls alone.

His mother, Anita Frances ( née Levy ; later Livingston ; May 22, 1926 — July 1981 ), was a lawyer and judge in New Orleans and, later, a Louisiana Supreme Court justice.

* Diana, Princess of Wales, noblewoman, her mother, Frances Burke Roche was a descendant of the Earls of Fermoy

* 1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U. S. Congress.

His mother took her three children: Jocelyn ( 1919 – 2005 ), Frances ( 1922 – 1994 ) and Marlon, to live with her mother in Santa Ana, California.

He completed these studies about 1649, where at the persuasion of his mother Frances Natalis he began to study physics.

Lady Jane's mother was Frances Brandon, who was Mary's cousin and goddaughter.

Lady Jane's mother was Lady Frances Brandon, the daughter of Suffolk and Princess Mary.

* January 20 – Frances Shand Kydd, Princess Diana's mother ( d. 2004 )

In 1827, his mother Frances Trollope moved to America with Trollope's three younger siblings, to Nashoba Commune.

* Lady Frances Brandon ( 16 July 1517 – 20 November 1559 ), who married Henry Grey, 3rd Marquess of Dorset, and was the mother of Lady Jane Grey

The earl's father, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex by Isaac Oliver, c. 1597 Robert Devereux as a child with his mother Frances Walsingham, countess of Essexby Robert Peake the elder, 1594

His mother was Frances Walsingham ( 1569 – 1631 ), the only daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's spymaster.

Her father was Ellis Arthur Franklin ( 1894 – 1964 ), a London merchant banker, and her mother was Muriel Frances Waley ( 1894 – 1976 ).

It was a reunion of sorts for Stanley and Lange, who received Oscar nominations for playing mother and daughter in 1982's Frances.

* Frances Ford Seymour ( 1908 – 1950 ), wife of actor Henry Fonda and mother of actress Jane Fonda and actor Peter Fonda ; lived in Fairhaven for several years with family members and attended Fairhaven High School

That night, he stayed at the residence of Frances Loraine Wade, mother of the Larry R. Wade.

Poe's mother Eliza, brother William, and foster mother Frances Allan had also died of tuberculosis.

Garrison's mother, Frances Maria Lloyd, was reported to have been tall, charming and of a strong religious character.

Julius's wife, Alan's mother, was Ethel Sara ( née Stoney ; 1881 – 1976 ), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways.

His father, Johan Henrik Aalto, was a Finnish-speaking land-surveyor and his mother, Selly ( Selma ) Matilda ( née Hackstedt ) was a postmistress.

Sakharov's mother was Yekaterina Alekseyevna Sakharova ( née Sofianos and of Greek ancestry ).

His father, Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby Jr., was a store clerk and his mother, Jane ( née McFarland ) Bixby, was a senior manager at I. Magnin & Company.

His mother was Matilda Beatrice DeMille ( née Samuel ), whose parents were both of German Jewish heritage.

Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of restaurateurs Cliffie ( née Cardullias ) and Chris Sarandon, Sr. His mother is of Greek descent and his father, whose surname was originally " Sarondonethes ", was a Greek immigrant.

His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and his mother, Edwina " Sunny " Lynch ( née Sundholm ), was an English language tutor whose grandfather's parents had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the 19th century.

He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.

His mother, Margaret Mary " Peggy " ( née Burns ) worked as a cinema usherette, while his father, Haywood Stenton " John " Jones was a promotions officer for Barnardo's.

His mother Mary ( née Bennett ) suffered from a benign brain tumour when Donald was very young.

His mother, Nora ( née Sullivan ), was a maid, and his father, John Leary, was an auto mechanic.

His mother, Ida Mabel Blair ( née Limouzin ), grew up in Moulmein, Burma, where her French father was involved in speculative ventures.

His father was Gebhard Himmler, a teacher, and his mother was Anna Maria Himmler ( née Heyder ), a devout Roman Catholic.

His mother, Jane Polk ( née Knox ), was a descendant of a brother of the Scottish religious reformer John Knox.

Jane Wallace ( née Wood ), Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News.

His mother, Ruth Hilda ( née Holmes ; 1916 – 1991 ), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon ( May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005 ), was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years.

Rasmussen was born in Ilulissat, Greenland, the son of a Danish missionary, the vicar Christian Rasmussen, and an Inuit-Danish mother, Lovise Rasmussen ( née Fleischer ).

His father, Simon Stockhausen, was a schoolteacher, and his mother Gertrud ( née Stupp ) was the daughter of a prosperous family of farmers in Neurath in the Cologne Bight.

Martin Van Buren's mother was Maria Van Alen ( née Hoes ) Van Buren ( 1747 – 1818 ).

Her father was Dr. Aubrey Bourke of Ballina, County Mayo, while her mother was from Donegal, Dr. Tessa Bourke ( née O ' Donnell ) of Carndonagh, Inishowen.

His mother, Maria Panteleyevna Gorbacheva ( née Gopkalo ), was a kolkhoz worker.

His father, Noah Sr. ( 1722 – 1813 ), was a descendant of Connecticut Governor John Webster ; his mother Mercy ( née Steele ; 1727 – 1794 ) was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony.

Abdul's father, Harry Abdul, was born in Aleppo, Syria, raised in Brazil, and subsequently immigrated to the United States ; her mother, Lorraine M. ( née Rykiss ), is originally from Minnedosa, Manitoba in Canada with ancestors from Russia and Ukraine, and Abdul derives Canadian citizenship through her.

Stanley Milgram was born in 1933 to a Jewish family in New York City, the child of a Romanian-born mother, Adele ( née Israel ), and a Hungarian-born father, Samuel Milgram.