The moai represented a clan's "most revered forebears who were believed to bestow ‘mana’ on living leaders".

His father Richard Ernest Melville was of Irish stock, and his mother Lillian Evelyn née Thatcher had English forebears.

The estate went to the old estate holder, Josef Matthias Maas, whose forebears had held the estate for 200 years.

These small groups of London "train writers" (LUL writers) adopted many of the styles and lifestyles of their New York City forebears, painting graffiti train pieces and in general 'bombing' the system, but favoring only a few selected underground lines seen as most suitable for train graffiti.

A large influence from classic rock is most easily heard on their covers LP "Cooper S" on which they covered the Rolling Stones and the Animals in addition to punk forebears like the Ramones and the Stooges.

Hess, along with later thinkers such as Nahum Syrkin and Ber Borochov, is considered a founder of "Socialist Zionism" and Labour Zionism and one of the intellectual forebears of the kibbutz movement.

History Cold Case saw skeletons of everyday people from across the ages analysed in staggering detail, opening new windows on the history of our forebears.

Artaxerxes I died in Susa, and his body was brought to Persepolis for interment in the tomb of his forebears.

Miller also reported incursions of English into French sentences (""Anyhow," je ne sais pas."), and English words adapted to modern items for which the locals' French forebears had left no names ("un "can" de maiz").