Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

His paternal grandfather, also named Abner, had fought in the American Revolutionary War.

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.

Under the care of his mother, he was given not only that religious and Oriental education which his position as the religious leader of the Ismailis made indispensable, but a sound European training, a boon denied to his father and paternal grandfather.

This in turn meant that Tiberius was also Agrippina's adoptive grandfather in addition to her paternal great-uncle.

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 16 BC ), only child of the above Gnaeus Domitius and Aemilia Lepida, paternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero, maternal grandfather of Valeria Messalina ( third wife of the emperor Claudius )

He was also a paternal grandfather of Alexander the Great.

A favorite of his paternal grandfather Andronikos II in the later years of his reign.

Their loss, however, was compensated by the tender solicitude and care of his paternal grandfather and grandmother, the latter of whom lived to experience in her turn the kindest personal attention from her grandson, who, when he had the means, gave her an asylum in his house at Rome.

Potter ’ s paternal grandfather, Edmund Potter, from Glossop in Derbyshire, owned the largest calico printing works in England at the time, and later served as a Member of Parliament.

During his reign, Claudius revived the rumor that his father Drusus was actually the illegitimate son of Augustus, to give the false appearance that Augustus was Claudius ' paternal grandfather.

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.

His paternal grandfather was painter Simon Elwes, whose father was the diplomat and tenor Gervase Elwes ( 1866 – 1921 ).

Guest's paternal grandfather, Leslie, Baron Haden-Guest, was a Labour Party politician who was a convert to Judaism, and Guest's paternal grandmother's father was Colonel Albert Goldsmid, a British officer who founded the Jewish Lads ' and Girls ' Brigade and the Maccabaeans.

The 7th Duke of Marlborough was the paternal grandfather of the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill ( who was born at Blenheim Palace on 30 November 1874 ).

* John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough ( 1822 – 1883 ), eldest son of the 6th Duke and paternal grandfather of Winston Churchill

After his bachelor degree, Rosa continued to draw comics purely as a hobby, his only income came from working in the Keno Rosa Tile Company, a company founded by his paternal grandfather and which had been taken over by Hugo Rosa.

Her parents ' marriage had been arranged by Dangereuse with her paternal grandfather, the Troubadour.

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.

Elias ' paternal grandfather, Elie ( sometimes called Elias ) Boudinot, was the son of Jean Boudinot and Marie Suire of Marans, Aunis, France.

While his paternal family had become prosperous early on in New York real estate and trade, much of his family's wealth had been built by FDR's maternal grandfather, Warren Delano, in the China trade, including opium and tea.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

After his father's death, Aurelius was adopted by his paternal grandfather Marcus Annius Verus ( II ).

Her father's Roman name was Julius Aurelius Zenobius, with the gentilicium Aurelius showing that his paternal ancestors received Roman citizenship under either Antoninus Pius ( reigned 138 – 161 ), Marcus Aurelius ( reigned 161 – 180 ) or Commodus ( reigned 180 – 192 ).

In the Överkalix study, Marcus Pembrey and colleagues observed that the paternal ( but not maternal ) grandsons of Swedish men who were exposed during preadolescence to famine in the 19th century were less likely to die of cardiovascular disease.

His praenomen and nomen Marcus Antonius suggest that his paternal ancestors received Roman citizenship under the Triumvir Mark Antony, or one of his daughters, during the late Roman Republic.

His praenomen and nomen Marcus Antonius suggest that his paternal ancestors received Roman citizenship under the Triumvir Mark Antony, or one of his daughters, during the late Roman Republic.

His first marriage was to a Calpurnia, possibly the daughter of Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, and from this first marriage, he had two children: a daughter called Valeria Messalina, who may have been the paternal grandmother of Roman Empress Statilia Messalina, and a son called Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus, who was a Roman consul in 3 BC.

Lucilla ’ s maternal grandparents were Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Roman Empress Faustina the Elder and her paternal grandparents were Domitia Lucilla and praetor Marcus Annius Verus.

Her co-conspirators included Tarrutenius Paternus, the head of the Imperial Guard, her daughter Plautia from her first marriage, Quintianus ’ nephew of the same name, and her paternal cousins the former consul Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus and his sister Ummidia Cornificia Faustina.

His paternal grandfather was the famous orator Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus.

His paternal uncle Marcus Aemilius Lepidus served as member of the Second Triumvirate.

Her father's maternal uncle was senator and consul Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus and paternal grandfather was the general Marcus Lollius Paulinus.

Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus († September 13, 16 ) was a younger son of the consul Lucius Scribonius Libo by his wife who was a member of the gens Sulpicius, the family that the Roman Emperor Galba, had descended from his paternal side.

Her paternal half-uncle was Marcus Claudius Ummidius Quadratus, who had been adopted by the Roman Consul Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus, the nephew of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Her paternal great-grandparents were the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius ; Roman Empress Faustina the Younger ; the Roman Senator, Philosopher Gnaeus Claudius Severus Arabianus and his unnamed wife.

As with the seven other reigning empresses whose successors were most often selected from amongst the males of the paternal imperial bloodline, she was followed on the throne by a male cousin, which is why some conservative scholars argue that the women's reigns were temporary and that male-only succession tradition must be maintained in the 21st century.

After her downfall, her affectations and excessive imaginations become eventually subdued by the voice of reason in the form of Stuart, a paternal figure, under whose guidance the protagonist receives a sound education and correction of her misguided taste

Between 1943 and 1946, the de facto President of Argentina was Edelmiro Farrell, whose paternal ancestry was Irish.

He is a Lebanese Australian ; his paternal grandfather, whose family name was Barakat, came to Australia as a child from Zahlé in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon in the 1890s.

His father, Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, was a Palestinian from Gaza, whose mother, Yasser's paternal grandmother, was Egyptian.

On 13 August 1651 the Dutch Hoge Raad ( Supreme Court ) ruled that guardianship would be shared between his mother, his paternal grandmother and Frederick William, the Elector of Brandenburg, whose wife, Louise Henriette, was his father's eldest sister.

A recent Genetic study in 2011 analyzed 51 southern French individuals from Provence in southern mainland France and 89 Anatolian Greek subjects whose paternal ancestry derives from Smyrna and Asia Minor Phokaia, the ancestral embarkation port to the 6th century BCE ancient Greek colonies of Massalia ( Marseilles ) and Alalie ( Aleria, Corsica ).

Furthermore, he was a younger brother of Christian X, a paternal grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark ( during whose reign he was prince of Denmark ), and a maternal grandson of King Charles XV of Sweden ( who was also king of Norway as Charles IV ).

His paternal grandparents were Edward John Pratt, an Anglo-Indian, and Eliza Julia ( Edwards ) Pratt, a sister of Anna Leonowens ( whose tales about life in the royal court of Siam Thailand were the basis of the musical The King and I ).

Subsequently, in 1783, he worked with Samuel Weiser ( son of Conrad Weiser, the famous Native Americans liaison who died in 1760, and with whose family Derr's own paternal family had been friends ) to layout his combined land tracts, and create Derrstown.

In modern times, Hakubun Shimomura argued that the Chrysanthemum Throne should be inherited only by those whose paternal ancestors had held it, to preserve a genetic bloodline.

The site was chosen in the mid-1950s by Cantona's paternal grandmother, Lucienne, whose husband, Joseph, was a stonemason.

He was baptised at the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 17 May 1900, by Randall Thomas Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, and his godparents were: Queen Victoria ( his great-grandmother ); the German Emperor ( his cousin, for whom Prince Albert of Prussia stood proxy ); Princess Henry of Battenberg ( his paternal grandaunt ); the Duchess of Cumberland ( his paternal grandaunt, whose sister, his grandmother the Princess of Wales represented her ); Prince George of Greece ( his cousin, for whom Prince Henry's paternal grandfather the Prince of Wales stood proxy ); Princess Carl of Denmark ( his paternal aunt, for whom her sister Princess Victoria of Wales stood proxy ); Prince Alexander of Teck ( his maternal uncle, for whom Prince Henry's granduncle the Duke of Cambridge stood proxy ); and Field Marshal The Earl Roberts ( for whom General Sir Dighton Probyn stood proxy ).

The Prince was baptised in the Private Chapel of Buckingham Palace on 20 November 1935 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Lang and his godparents were: King George V and Queen Mary ( his paternal grandparents ); the Prince of Wales ( his paternal uncle ); the Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood ( his paternal aunt ); the Duke of Connaught ( his great-granduncle, whose son, Prince Arthur of Connaught, stood proxy ); the Duchess of Argyll ( his great-grandaunt ); and the Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark ( his maternal grandfather ).

Her godparents were: Queen Victoria ( her paternal grandmother ); the German Empress ( for whom Alice's paternal aunt Princess Beatrice stood proxy ); William III, King of the Netherlands ( for whom the Dutch Ambassador Count de Bylandt stood proxy ); Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse ( her namesake's widower, whose brother-in-law the Duke of Edinburgh represented him ); the Princess of Waldeck-Pyrmont ( her maternal grandmother ); the Prince of Wales ( her paternal uncle ); the German Crown Princess ( her paternal aunt, whose sister-in-law the Princess of Wales represented her ); Prince Wilhelm of Württemberg ( her cousin, for whom his cousin the Duke of Teck stood proxy ); the Hereditary Princess of Bentheim and Steinfurt ( her maternal aunt, for whom her paternal aunt Princess Christian stood proxy ); and the Duchess of Cambridge ( an aunt of the Queen, whose daughter the Duchess of Teck represented her ).