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They had eight children: James Austen (1765–1819) George Austen (1766–1838) Edward Austen Knight (1767–1852) Henry Thomas Austen (1771–1850) Cassandra Austen (1773–1845) Sir Francis Austen (1774–1865) Jane Austen (1775–1817) Charles John Austen (1779–1852)
Oct 10, 2009 · The Austens produced remarkably hardy children, for all survived their childhood. At forty-one, Jane was the youngest to die. George, who survived to a ripe old age, was cared for along with his Uncle Thomas (a mentally defective person), by Francis Cullum, who lived in Monk Sherborne, a nearby Hampshire village.
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Jane Austen was born December 16, 1775, to Rev. George Austen and the former Cassandra Leigh in Steventon, Hampshire, the seventh of eight children.
May 29, 2018 · Born in Steventon, Hampshire, England, on December 16, 1775, Jane Austen was the seventh of eight children. She was the daughter of George Austen and Cassandra Leigh, who came from a prominent English family.
In his 1978 biography of Jane, David Cecil writes: “Another son, George, born 1766, does not come into the story; he was mentally defective” (29). In his mention of George Austen, Park Honan in a 1987 biography notes that Mrs. Austen’s brother Thomas was “placed at nearby Monk Sherborne” and that “George would soon join his uncle ...
They had six sons: James (1765–1819), who became a curate and was rector of Steventon from his father's death; George (1766–1838), who was epileptic, and at six was sent to join Cassandra's brother Thomas; Edward (1767–1852), who in 1783 became heir to the property of his second cousin Thomas Knight, took his name, and was the steady benefactor ...
Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire, the seventh of the eight children of the Reverend George Austen and his wife Cassandra (nee Leigh).
