Andrea also had an older sister named Adele who died six months before his birth.

His parents named him after an older brother, John, who had died before his birth.

"She died several years before your birth, and yet somehow her spirit has a hand in all of this."

He died 10 years before my birth but was remembered to me in stories and pictures.

Her father died suddenly about three months before her birth.

Her father, an army officer, died months before her birth.

Hall grew up an only child, a sister having died in infancy before his birth.

The father died before his birth, leaving only his mother to bring him up.

Her father had died on 25 October 1548, less than six months before her birth.

His father died at the age of twenty-four, some two months before Yelverton's birth.