Same was true for men whose father, mother or sibling died in a military or civil service.

He had four brothers and six sisters, although three siblings died young.

Her only full sibling, Anna, died at age 5.

His only sibling, a sister, died when she was thirteen.

In 19 a previous sibling had died suddenly and unexpectedly.

He was one of six children, though two siblings died before adulthood.

She watched her fifteen siblings die or be killed and she felt nothing.

On the journey west her mother and two siblings died.

Another sibling, a sister, died in 1894, when Malcolm was four.

Four older siblings died during his time in Italy.