Captain John Austen 1823-1899
Sailing with the Captain
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Mrs Austen
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Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 31-60993 Is this Anne Austen nee Wilcox? Auckland Libraries has a database o...
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Sunday, March 16, 2014
The Wilcox Family
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John Austen's wife was Anne Wilcox. She was born in Somerset about 1842 to Hannah and James Wilcox and came to New Zealand, according to...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
A sea-faring family
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This is a record of a voyage on the Sussex Lass in 1847 - on board were 3 members of the Austen family - father and two sons. John Auste...
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Rye, Sussex
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Pump Street, Rye According to the 1841 UK census the Austen household comprised: John age 50, mariner Mary age 55 Caroline a...
Friday, June 22, 2012
Some faces for the names
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With recent additions to Papers Past and the Auckland Library "Heritage images on-line" some images of Captain John's grandso...
Thursday, May 17, 2012
"Everybody's favourite comedian"
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The Auckland Star newspaper has now been digitised up to 1926 and is available of Papers Past - this is an absolutely fabulous resource. A...
Monday, April 23, 2012
Lessons from a Sexton
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sexton (skstn)n. An employee or officer of a church who is responsible for the care and upkeep of church property and sometimes for ringing...
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