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John Child was born on April 25, 1669 at Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, and died at age 74 years old in 1743 at Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. John Child was buried in 1742 in Waltham, Massachusetts US. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Child.
Lydia Child was born on January 21, 1706 in Worcester, Massachusetts US, and died at age 54 years old in September 1760 in Hardwick. Lydia Child was buried in Hardwick. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lydia Child.
Barbara Child of Australia was born in 1805, and died at age 75 years old in 1880.
Margaret Ann Child of Melbourne, Melbourne Parish County Australia was born in 1818, and died at age 33 years old in 1851 in Melbourne.
Steph Bailis Child of Bendigo Australia was born in 1818, and died at age 74 years old in 1892 in Bendigo.
William Child of Australia was born in 1819, and died at age 54 years old in 1873.
Thomas Child of Marysborough Australia was born in 1820, and died at age 85 years old in 1905 in Marysborough.
Alf Child of Millbrook Australia was born in 1821, and died at age 76 years old in 1897 in Millbrook.
George Augustus Child of Australia was born in 1825, and died at age 28 years old in 1853.
George Child of Australia was born in 1827, and died at age 50 years old in 1877.
John Child of Australia was born in 1827, and died at age 43 years old in 1870.
Sarah Lavena Child of Ldale Australia was born in 1828, and died at age 74 years old in 1902 in Ldale.

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Danielle L Edwards Step (Tourville) Child was born on February 15, 1979 in Imperial, Jefferson County, USA United States to Dennis M Keating and Rita L Keating (Fontana). Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Danielle L Edwards (Tourville) Step Child.
Dorothy Anna (Child) Thomas of Bala Australia was born in 1904, and died at age 69 years old in 1973 in Bala.
John Oscar Child of Bala Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Oscar Child .
Margaret (Gearon) Child of Bala Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Margaret Gearon Child.
Julia Child
Julia Child, the French Chef for a Jell-O Nation, Dies at 91 By Regina Schrambling Aug. 13, 2004 Julia Child, who turned the art of French cooking into prime-time television entertainment and brought cassoulet to a casserole culture in the two volumes of her monumental "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," died yesterday at her home in Santa Barbara, Calif., two days before her 92nd birthday. The cause was complications of kidney failure, said a niece, Philadelphia Cousins. Mrs. Child was a towering figure on the culinary front for more than 40 years. Most Americans knew her as the imperturbable host of the long-running PBS television series "The French Chef." She was a tall, exuberant woman who could make lobster bisque look as easy as toast. But she was also respected by food professionals for the clarity and rigor with which she translated French cuisine for an American audience, most impressively in "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," a work that Craig Claiborne, in The New York Times, said "may be the finest volume on French cooking ever published in English." Mrs. Child was not the first dedicated cook to turn cooking into a spectator sport - James Beard preceded her on television in 1945, Dione Lucas in 1948 - but she brought a fresh, breezy approach to daunting material, expressed in her up-the-scales signature signoff, "Bon appétit!" "She demystified French cuisine in a way that had not been done before, in an appealing, straightforward way," said Jacques Pépin, who teamed up with Mrs. Child in the cooking series "Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home." A self-confessed ham, she became a darling of audiences and comedians almost from the moment she made her debut on WGBH in Boston in 1963 at the age of 50. On "Saturday Night Live," Dan Aykroyd played her boozily bleeding to death while shrieking, "Save the liver." Jean Stapleton even portrayed her in a musical with sung recipes called "Bon Appétit!" in 1989. "I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way," Mrs. Child said in an interview last year. What made Mrs. Child such an influential teacher was her good-humored insistence that competent home cooks, if they followed instructions, would find even complicated French dishes within their grasp. Mistakes were not the end of the world, just part of the game. In fact, minor slips and mishaps were weekly events on ''The French Chef," and none of them seemed to faze Mrs. Child. At the same time, she always put the food before showmanship. She had real respect for recipes, and by example she helped elevate the status of cooking in the United States. Julia Carolyn McWilliams was born Aug. 15, 1912, in Pasadena, Calif. Her father was a wealthy farm consultant and investor; her mother was a housewife with a cook and maid who could make not much more than baking powder biscuits, codfish balls and Welsh rarebit. Julia was the oldest of three siblings, each so tall that their mother boasted that she had "given birth to 18 feet of children." Otherwise, she gave no indication that she would lead an outsize life. E‘After a Few Moments of Awkward Silence, We Reached the Other Side’ She attended Smith College at a time when "women could be either nurses or teachers," she said, and she had some vague idea of being a novelist or a basketball star. After graduation in 1934 and a stint as a copywriter in between cocktail parties in New York, she returned home. According to her biographer, Noel Riley Fitch, in "Appetite for Life" (Doubleday, 1997), her one real job in her hometown, in advertising and public relations, ended when she was fired for insubordination, and rightly so, she always said. After World War II broke out, she signed up for intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services, hoping to become a spy, but was sent off as a file clerk to Ceylon. There she met Paul Child, the head of a chart-making division who was 10 years older and several inches shorter. He was also an artist, a poet and a serious food lover who opened up her taste horizons on their travels in China. They married in 1946 and spent a year in Washington before Mr. Child was sent to Paris by the United States Information Agency. It was a fateful move, because Mrs. Child by then was struggling to learn to cook and her husband was suffering the consequences. French food immediately took her attempts to a higher plane. Out of those early experiments came her core belief: that cooking was an art to be studied, not picked up on the fly. She threw herself into studies at the Cordon Bleu and later joined the Cercle des Gourmettes, a club where she met Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, two cooking enthusiasts who wanted to write a cookbook for the American market but lacked the English to do it. The three became partners in a cooking school they called L'École de Trois Gourmandes in Paris and set to work on their cookbook, even as Mrs. Child followed her husband to postings in Marseille, Bonn and Oslo. In 1956 the couple took up residence in Cambridge, Mass. They continued to visit Europe frequently, maintaining a home near Grasse, in the south of France. After nearly a decade, Mrs. Child and her partners produced an 800-page manuscript that Houghton Mifflin, the publisher that had originally contracted for it, rejected as too daunting. Judith Jones at Alfred A. Knopf read a later, more comprehensive version and decided it was the detailed, lucid, approachable French cookbook that she, and all of America, had been waiting for. "I was jealous," said Mr. Pépin, who met Mrs. Child in 1960 and saw the book in manuscript. "It was just the kind of book I would have liked to do." The introduction showed Mrs. Child at her most direct: "This is a book for the servantless American cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, time schedules, children's meals, the parent-chauffeur-den mother syndrome or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of producing something wonderful to eat." The book, she wrote, could well be titled "French Cooking From the American Supermarket." As revolutionary as the book was, it might have only gathered cobwebs in bookstores alongside "Escoffier's Guide Culinaire" if not for Mrs. Child's way with a whisk on camera. Invited onto a book show on WGBH to talk about "Mastering," she chose to whip up an omelet, beating the eggs in a giant copper bowl. Russell Morash, who became her producer, recalled the sight: ''I thought to myself: Who is this madwoman cooking an omelet on a book-review program?" Viewers were so taken with the frenzy of cooking and relaxed chatter that Mrs. Child was hired to put together 26 segments, for $50 apiece. Although its host was American and regarded herself as a cook, the program was called "The French Chef," a title that would fit on one line in TV Guide. When stations in Pittsburgh, San Francisco and then New York picked the series up, it was on its way. "I think the secret of her appeal was a combination of joy in what she was doing and a deep desire to teach and to teach well," said Geof Drummond, who produced Mrs. Child's cooking programs in the 1990's. "The food was important to her, and it was important to her that you get it." With help from her husband she appeared on a set replicating a home kitchen and cooked the dishes of the week, then served them to herself, complete with wine. While Mrs. Child has been credited with inspiring a boom in French restaurants, an explosion of fancy food markets and even the arrival of the Food Network, she insisted her original book and program benefited from "a concatenation of factors" in the early 1960's. It was an era when Jacqueline Kennedy was raising awareness of all things French, and travel to France, which used to take a week by boat, was shortened to mere hours by plane. Duncan Hines cake mixes and Jell-O salads may have been far more prevalent than chocolate mousse and vinaigrette, but Americans were ready to embrace French food, at least as it was translated by a charismatic compatriot. Over the years, Mrs. Child devoted herself to her television series while writing companion cookbooks, ending with "Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home," in collaboration with Mr. Pépin, in 1999. For the first books, she would test her recipes upstairs in the open kitchen in Cambridge, Mass., outfitted with a Garland range, while her husband painted in a studio in the basement. When she called, he would come up to photograph her latest creation to give the illustrator something to draw on.
Fountain James Child of G Iris Australia was born in 1879 in Warr, and died at age 73 years old in 1952 in G Iris.
Catherine Elizabeth (Jansen) Child of Marysborough Australia was born in 1872 in Amherst, Central Goldfields Shire County, VIC, and died at age 32 years old on June 3, 1905 in Maryborough.
William Edward Child of Maryborough Australia was born circa 1870 in Timor, Central Goldfields Shire County, VIC, and died at age 31 years old on December 6, 1902 in Maryborough.
Edward Robert Childe of Maryborough Australia was born on December 7, 1903 in Maryborough, Central Goldfields Shire County, VIC, and died at age 79 years old on November 19, 1983 at Royal Canberra Hospital in Canberra, ACT.
Female Child
Female Child was born in 1902. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Female Child.
Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ella Virginia (Child).
Daniel W Child of Huntington Beach, Orange County, CA was born on February 20, 1925, and died at age 68 years old on February 10, 1994.
John S Child of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on October 14, 1915, and died at age 95 years old on October 27, 2010.
James R Child of Pomfret, Windham County, CT was born on March 23, 1914, and died at age 78 years old on December 9, 1992.
Stanley Roberts Child of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah was born on August 19, 1922, and died at age 87 years old on November 12, 2009.
Wayne E Child of Mentor, Lake County, Ohio was born on February 19, 1916, and died at age 70 years old in April 1986.
David Alvin Child of Manchester, Meriwether County, Georgia was born on November 25, 1923, and died at age 86 years old on February 9, 2010.
Justin G Child of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California was born on May 7, 1901, and died at age 68 years old in September 1969.
Stanton Melvin Child of Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California was born on July 30, 1923, and died at age 84 years old on October 2, 2007.
Stewart A Child of Whittier, Los Angeles County, California was born on September 11, 1916, and died at age 63 years old in December 1979.

Popular Child Biographies

Julia Child
Julia Child, the French Chef for a Jell-O Nation, Dies at 91 By Regina Schrambling Aug. 13, 2004 Julia Child, who turned the art of French cooking into prime-time television entertainment and brought cassoulet to a casserole culture in the two volumes of her monumental "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," died yesterday at her home in Santa Barbara, Calif., two days before her 92nd birthday. The cause was complications of kidney failure, said a niece, Philadelphia Cousins. Mrs. Child was a towering figure on the culinary front for more than 40 years. Most Americans knew her as the imperturbable host of the long-running PBS television series "The French Chef." She was a tall, exuberant woman who could make lobster bisque look as easy as toast. But she was also respected by food professionals for the clarity and rigor with which she translated French cuisine for an American audience, most impressively in "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," a work that Craig Claiborne, in The New York Times, said "may be the finest volume on French cooking ever published in English." Mrs. Child was not the first dedicated cook to turn cooking into a spectator sport - James Beard preceded her on television in 1945, Dione Lucas in 1948 - but she brought a fresh, breezy approach to daunting material, expressed in her up-the-scales signature signoff, "Bon appétit!" "She demystified French cuisine in a way that had not been done before, in an appealing, straightforward way," said Jacques Pépin, who teamed up with Mrs. Child in the cooking series "Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home." A self-confessed ham, she became a darling of audiences and comedians almost from the moment she made her debut on WGBH in Boston in 1963 at the age of 50. On "Saturday Night Live," Dan Aykroyd played her boozily bleeding to death while shrieking, "Save the liver." Jean Stapleton even portrayed her in a musical with sung recipes called "Bon Appétit!" in 1989. "I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way," Mrs. Child said in an interview last year. What made Mrs. Child such an influential teacher was her good-humored insistence that competent home cooks, if they followed instructions, would find even complicated French dishes within their grasp. Mistakes were not the end of the world, just part of the game. In fact, minor slips and mishaps were weekly events on ''The French Chef," and none of them seemed to faze Mrs. Child. At the same time, she always put the food before showmanship. She had real respect for recipes, and by example she helped elevate the status of cooking in the United States. Julia Carolyn McWilliams was born Aug. 15, 1912, in Pasadena, Calif. Her father was a wealthy farm consultant and investor; her mother was a housewife with a cook and maid who could make not much more than baking powder biscuits, codfish balls and Welsh rarebit. Julia was the oldest of three siblings, each so tall that their mother boasted that she had "given birth to 18 feet of children." Otherwise, she gave no indication that she would lead an outsize life. E‘After a Few Moments of Awkward Silence, We Reached the Other Side’ She attended Smith College at a time when "women could be either nurses or teachers," she said, and she had some vague idea of being a novelist or a basketball star. After graduation in 1934 and a stint as a copywriter in between cocktail parties in New York, she returned home. According to her biographer, Noel Riley Fitch, in "Appetite for Life" (Doubleday, 1997), her one real job in her hometown, in advertising and public relations, ended when she was fired for insubordination, and rightly so, she always said. After World War II broke out, she signed up for intelligence work with the Office of Strategic Services, hoping to become a spy, but was sent off as a file clerk to Ceylon. There she met Paul Child, the head of a chart-making division who was 10 years older and several inches shorter. He was also an artist, a poet and a serious food lover who opened up her taste horizons on their travels in China. They married in 1946 and spent a year in Washington before Mr. Child was sent to Paris by the United States Information Agency. It was a fateful move, because Mrs. Child by then was struggling to learn to cook and her husband was suffering the consequences. French food immediately took her attempts to a higher plane. Out of those early experiments came her core belief: that cooking was an art to be studied, not picked up on the fly. She threw herself into studies at the Cordon Bleu and later joined the Cercle des Gourmettes, a club where she met Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, two cooking enthusiasts who wanted to write a cookbook for the American market but lacked the English to do it. The three became partners in a cooking school they called L'École de Trois Gourmandes in Paris and set to work on their cookbook, even as Mrs. Child followed her husband to postings in Marseille, Bonn and Oslo. In 1956 the couple took up residence in Cambridge, Mass. They continued to visit Europe frequently, maintaining a home near Grasse, in the south of France. After nearly a decade, Mrs. Child and her partners produced an 800-page manuscript that Houghton Mifflin, the publisher that had originally contracted for it, rejected as too daunting. Judith Jones at Alfred A. Knopf read a later, more comprehensive version and decided it was the detailed, lucid, approachable French cookbook that she, and all of America, had been waiting for. "I was jealous," said Mr. Pépin, who met Mrs. Child in 1960 and saw the book in manuscript. "It was just the kind of book I would have liked to do." The introduction showed Mrs. Child at her most direct: "This is a book for the servantless American cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, time schedules, children's meals, the parent-chauffeur-den mother syndrome or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of producing something wonderful to eat." The book, she wrote, could well be titled "French Cooking From the American Supermarket." As revolutionary as the book was, it might have only gathered cobwebs in bookstores alongside "Escoffier's Guide Culinaire" if not for Mrs. Child's way with a whisk on camera. Invited onto a book show on WGBH to talk about "Mastering," she chose to whip up an omelet, beating the eggs in a giant copper bowl. Russell Morash, who became her producer, recalled the sight: ''I thought to myself: Who is this madwoman cooking an omelet on a book-review program?" Viewers were so taken with the frenzy of cooking and relaxed chatter that Mrs. Child was hired to put together 26 segments, for $50 apiece. Although its host was American and regarded herself as a cook, the program was called "The French Chef," a title that would fit on one line in TV Guide. When stations in Pittsburgh, San Francisco and then New York picked the series up, it was on its way. "I think the secret of her appeal was a combination of joy in what she was doing and a deep desire to teach and to teach well," said Geof Drummond, who produced Mrs. Child's cooking programs in the 1990's. "The food was important to her, and it was important to her that you get it." With help from her husband she appeared on a set replicating a home kitchen and cooked the dishes of the week, then served them to herself, complete with wine. While Mrs. Child has been credited with inspiring a boom in French restaurants, an explosion of fancy food markets and even the arrival of the Food Network, she insisted her original book and program benefited from "a concatenation of factors" in the early 1960's. It was an era when Jacqueline Kennedy was raising awareness of all things French, and travel to France, which used to take a week by boat, was shortened to mere hours by plane. Duncan Hines cake mixes and Jell-O salads may have been far more prevalent than chocolate mousse and vinaigrette, but Americans were ready to embrace French food, at least as it was translated by a charismatic compatriot. Over the years, Mrs. Child devoted herself to her television series while writing companion cookbooks, ending with "Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home," in collaboration with Mr. Pépin, in 1999. For the first books, she would test her recipes upstairs in the open kitchen in Cambridge, Mass., outfitted with a Garland range, while her husband painted in a studio in the basement. When she called, he would come up to photograph her latest creation to give the illustrator something to draw on.
Catherine Elizabeth (Jansen) Child of Marysborough Australia was born in 1872 in Amherst, Central Goldfields Shire County, VIC, and died at age 32 years old on June 3, 1905 in Maryborough.
Margaret Joan (Child) Crockett of Clearfield, Utah was born on July 19, 1943 to Silvia (Forbes) Child and Oroville Child. She married Dale Owen Crockett and they later divorced. She had children Danny Dale Crockett, Debbie (Crockett) Ballard, and Carol Crockett. Margaret Crockett died at age 63 years old on October 21, 2006.
Violet Child was in a relationship with William Henry May, and has children William Robert May and Clifford James May. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Violet Child .
Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Eddie Serrano, Step Child.
Danielle L Edwards Step (Tourville) Child was born on February 15, 1979 in Imperial, Jefferson County, USA United States to Dennis M Keating and Rita L Keating (Fontana). Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Danielle L Edwards (Tourville) Step Child.
Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember She Was Not the Only Child.
Tatiana (Mancheno) Child was born in New York, New York United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Tatiana (Mancheno) Child.
Hannah (French) Child was born in Billerica, Massachusetts United States to William French and Elizabeth (Symmes) French, and had siblings Jacob 'Sgt' French, Mary (French) Hyde, Sarah (French ) Peake, and John French Col. Hannah Child died in 1766 in Watertown. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Hannah (French) Child.
William Edward Child of Maryborough Australia was born circa 1870 in Timor, Central Goldfields Shire County, VIC, and died at age 31 years old on December 6, 1902 in Maryborough.
Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ella Virginia (Child).
Laura Haley (adopted (Harris) Child) was born to Marilyn (Weeks) Harris and Rodger Harris, and has siblings Jeff Harris and Paul Harris. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Laura (Harris) Haley (Adopted Child).
Silvia Child died in 2007. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Silvia (Forbes) Child.
Oroville Child died in 1988. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Oroville Child.
Carolyn Mae (Child) Harkins
Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Carolyn Mae (Child) Harkins.
Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Michael Eismont Child.
John Child was born on April 25, 1669 at Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, and died at age 74 years old in 1743 at Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. John Child was buried in 1742 in Waltham, Massachusetts US. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Child.
Lydia Child was born on January 21, 1706 in Worcester, Massachusetts US, and died at age 54 years old in September 1760 in Hardwick. Lydia Child was buried in Hardwick. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lydia Child.
Margaret (Gearon) Child of Bala Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Margaret Gearon Child.
John Oscar Child of Bala Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Oscar Child .

Child Death Records & Life Expectancy

The average age of a Child family member is 71.0 years old according to our database of 1,610 people with the last name Child that have a birth and death date listed.

Life Expectancy

71.0 years

Oldest Childs

These are the longest-lived members of the Child family on AncientFaces.

Pearl S Child of Roy, Weber County, UT was born on October 12, 1892, and died at age 106 years old on January 3, 1999.
106 years
Elda Viola Criddle Child of Syracuse, Davis County, Utah was born on December 5, 1901, and died at age 106 years old on January 13, 2008.
106 years
Elizabeth Child of Newport, Newport County, RI was born on February 5, 1875, and died at age 102 years old in April 1977.
102 years
Hazel B Child of Dunedin, Pinellas County, FL was born on February 13, 1888, and died at age 102 years old on October 25, 1990.
102 years
Henrietta Child of Berea, Madison County, KY was born on November 2, 1867, and died at age 100 years old in August 1968.
100 years
Alice S Child of Atlanta, Fulton County, GA was born on August 28, 1896, and died at age 100 years old on June 13, 1997.
100 years
Alice Child of Olympia, Thurston County, Washington was born on April 30, 1881, and died at age 100 years old in January 1982.
100 years
Douglas Child was born on May 30, 1865, and died at age 100 years old in May 1965. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Douglas Child.
99 years
Marion Child of Putnam, Windham County, CT was born on July 28, 1904, and died at age 99 years old on April 24, 2004.
99 years
Grace Child of West Haven, New Haven County, CT was born on August 27, 1869, and died at age 99 years old in February 1969.
99 years
Burr Allen Child of Sun City, Maricopa County, Arizona was born on March 18, 1911, and died at age 99 years old on June 22, 2010.
99 years
Sarah Ann Child of Brighton Australia was born in 1881, and died at age 99 years old in 1980 in Brighton.
99 years
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