Ronald Bilius Weasley was the sixth of seven children born to Arthur and Molly Weasley and got his middle name from his uncle. He was born at the height of the First Wizarding War, in Ottery St. Catchpole, England. In the fighting his maternal uncles Fabian and Gideon Prewett, both members of the Order of the Phoenix, were killed fighting Antonin Dolohov and four other Death Eaters.[18] While he was still a toddler, the wizarding world became peaceful again, for a time, after Lord Voldemort's first defeat on 31 October, 1981.