Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

A Sterling Township family of six surviving children, whose mother died yesterday as the aftermath to a fire that also killed one of the children, found today they had the help of hundreds of neighbors and school friends.

Her mother was a Greer and her father's family came from the Orkney Isles.

His father Isamu, a member of a former samurai family from the Akita Prefecture, worked as the director of the Army's Physical Education Institute's lower secondary school, while his mother Shima came from a merchant's family living in Osaka.

Not on good terms with Caracalla, Geta had been invited to a family reconciliation, at which time he was ambushed by centurions in Caracalla's army and slain in his mother Julia's arms.

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As proof of devotion to his family, Caligula arranged the most distinguished soldiers available to carry the urns of his mother and two brothers in two biers at noon in Rome, when the streets were at their busiest, to the Mausoleum of Augustus.

A second memoir was about the fortunes of her mother ’ s family and the last memoir recorded the misfortunes ( casus suorum ) of the family of Agrippina and Germanicus.

She was a dedicated, supporting wife and mother who looked out for the interests of her children and the future of her family.

Agrippina wrote a memoir that recorded the misfortunes of her family ( casus suorum ) and wrote an account of her mother ’ s life.

However, his mother consolidated the Doukas family connection by arranging the Emperor's marriage to Irene Doukaina, granddaughter of the Caesar John Doukas, the uncle of Michael VII, who would not have supported Alexios otherwise.

Johnson's mother Mary took in work spinning and weaving to support her family.

Ealhswith's mother, Eadburh, was a member of the Mercian royal family.

Since her adulteress mother was his own sister, Afonso V had not only ambition, but the family honour to protect.

Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset as a bust statue of this lady, which is today located in the British Museum, shows.

Born to a wealthy family in Paris, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier inherited a large fortune at the age of five with the passing of his mother.

In 1881, Carnegie took his family, including his 70 year-old mother, on a trip to the United Kingdom.

While at prep school as a boarder his mother wrote to tell him she was marrying Cecil Pye, a bank manager, and when he was at home for the holidays his new family consisted of his mother, his stepfather and Christopher, his stepfather's son by an earlier marriage.

Alexander Grothendieck was born in Berlin to anarchist parents: a Ukrainian father from an ultimately Hassidic family, Alexander " Sascha " Shapiro aka Tanaroff, and a mother from a German Protestant family, Johanna " Hanka " Grothendieck ; both of his parents had broken away from their early backgrounds in their teens.

Born from a noble family of the province of Soule, his father Michel was born in Arrast-Larrebieu and his mother was Irish.

Irish through his mother, Abbadie was an English-speaker but his relationship with Irish culture or his Irish family is not documented.

Andriessen was born in Utrecht into a musical family, the son of the composer Hendrik Andriessen ( 1892 – 1981 ), brother of composers Jurriaan Andriessen ( 1925 – 1996 ) and Caecilia Andriessen ( 1931 -), and nephew of Willem Andriessen ( 1887 – 1964 ).

The identity of his mother's family continues to be one of the most disputed issues of 1st century BC Roman social history, but she was certainly not the Caecilia, daughter of Metellus Balearicus, deduced by Friedrich Münzer.

Women of the Caecilii Metelli family were always named Caecilia Metella, according to the Roman naming convention.

Caecilia Metella was the name of all women in the Caecilius Metellus family, since feminine names were taken from the father's gens and cognomen declined in the female form.

Descended from a family of equestrian rank, Pomponius was born and raised in Rome, the son of Titus Pomponius and wife Caecilia Metella.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

He was born as the only child of Titus Aurelius Fulvus, consul in 89 whose family came from Nemausus ( modern Nîmes ).

While his paternal family was from the town of Velletri, about from Rome, Augustus was born in the city of Rome on 23 September 63 BC.

Ambrose was born into a Roman Christian family about 330 and was raised in Trier.

He was born in Warrington, Lancashire into a distinguished literary family of prominent Unitarians.

He was born into a family of writers, the best known of whom was his paternal aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who wrote poetry and essays as well as early children's literature.

Abu Bakr was born in Mecca some time in 573 CE, to a rich family in the Banu Taym clan of the Quraysh tribe.

Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in a typical weaver's cottage with only one main room consisting of half the ground floor which was shared with the neighboring weaver's family.

Rodin was born in 1840 into a working-class family in Paris, the second child of Marie Cheffer and Jean-Baptiste Rodin, who was a police department clerk.

Adalbert ( Vojtěch ) was born into a noble Czech family of Prince Slavník and his wife Střezislava in Libice nad Cidlinou, Bohemia.

Baldassarre Cossa was born on the island of Procida or Ischia in the Kingdom of Naples into a noble but impoverished family.

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

He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg ( 1587 – 1613 ), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution.

Alexander Kerensky was born in Simbirsk ( now Ulyanovsk ) on the Volga River into the family of a secondary school principal.

Oscar was the son of a noble family, born near Amiens.

Aedesius (, died 355 ) was a Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic born of a noble Cappadocian family.

His youngest son, Mahomed Omar Jan, was born in 1889 of an Afghan mother, connected by descent with the Barakzai family.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was born in Tehran to an aristocratic family of the realm.

The eldest of seven children, Housman was born at Valley House in Fockbury, a hamlet on the outskirts of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, to Sarah Jane ( née Williams, married 17 Jun 1858 in Woodchester, Gloucester ) and Edward Housman ( whose family came from Lancaster ), and was baptized on 24 Apr 1859 at Christ Church, in Catshill.

He was born to Keshav Sitaram Thackeray ( also known as ' Prabodhankar ' Thackeray because of his articles in his fortnightly magazine named Prabodhan or ' Enlightenment ') Marathi family.

Though a practicing Christian, he had been born into a Jewish family with origins from Portugal, and had converted at a young age.