James Dear Austin was a doctor of medicine like his father. He married Elizabeth Mary Pierce, sister of William Pierce (the husband of Joseph Gibson Austin, the curiously named posthumous daughter of James' cousin).
Elizabeth Mary Pierce, sister of William Pierce (the husband of Joseph Gibson Austin, the curiously named posthumous daughter of James' cousin).
137. John Austin
Died in infancy
She married a Mr Einery,but whether they had children is not known. Sarah died at Clifton, Bristol.
She married, first to Joseph Bute and they had five children, Sarah Eliza, James, Mary, Margaret, and Letitia Mehetabel. Sarah Elizabeth Subsequently married Charles Bean, but they had no children.
Of Sarah Elizabeth's children Mary married B.G.Burrough and they had three children, Charles Austin, Mary Matilda and Margaret Letitia. We do not know whether the other children married. Charles Austin Burrough maiies Rosalie Springhete and had no children. Mary Matilda Burrough married John Alfred Paul and had two children, Hilda May and Mary Gladys.
45. Thomas Austin
Thomas lived in Demerara as a man for he married Elvira Reed there in 1836. Elvira was the daughter of John Groscort Reed and his wife Anna Elvira. John Groscort Reed was a planter and in 1834 was proprietor of Plantations Dochfour and Lowlands, East Coast, Demerara. In his will, John Groscort Reed named his brother Baynes Reed. The forenames Groscort and Baynes were passed to sons of Thomas and Elvira. A codicil to John Groscort's will, dated 27 March, 1838, was witnessed by George Booker, an uncle of Josias Booker II, who married Mehetabel Wickham Austin.
The officiating clergyman at the wedding of Thomas and Elvira was Elvira's uncle the Rev. Leonard Strong and Thomas and Elvira named their fifth son after him. The year after their marriage, Thomas and Elvira emigrated to the USA and lived principally in Stratford, Connecticut where they had a large family. Thomas was a sea captain.
146. Anna Elvira Austin
Also born in New York, she married P. Edwards Johnson in Peterson, N.J. They had no children.
147. John Groscort Austin
He was born in England, though grew up in Stratford. He married in New York, but had no children.
He was born in England but became a surgeon in the US army and died a bachelor in Texas.
153. Madeline Bean Austin
She was also born in Stratford and married Paul Whitehead, but they had no children.
154. Lucy Austin
She was born in Stratford and married J.R. Haxton in Kent, Connecticut and they had five children.
She died without issue in Stratford, Connecticut.
157. Hugh Piercy Austin
He was born in Stratford, Connecticut and died a bachelor in Florida.
46. Laetitia Austin
She married Jonathan Amory, a businessman from Boston, Massachusetts.
A businessman from Boston
This child was named Richard after his uncle, Joseph’s eldest brother. Fatherless so young he was probably brought up in Barbados for his mother was a Barbadian, but he returned to Demerara as a sugar planter and was owner or manager of an estate called Bathsheba’s Lust in Essequibo. In 1836, in Demerara, he married Melicent, daughter of James Inniss and Sarah Rebecca Saer of that colony and they had ten children. Standing to lose when slavery was abolished in 1837, he took his slaves with him to Plantation Kleinhoop in Surinam. We can only speculate on his relationship with his uncle Richard who, in 1822, had been dismissed from his position as officiating minister at All Saints’ parish church in New Amsterdam and went to live at Kleinhoop. Richard Barker, like his uncle and aunt, is buried at Kleinhoop.
We know nothing of this child and suspect that he died young.
166. Richard Austin
Nothing is known of this child. He died young.
167. Samuel Austin
He is believed to have married and had three children.
168. Susan Austin
Nothing is known of Susan. She died young.
She was named after her father in spite of her sex. She married William Edward Pierce, whose sister had already married into the Austin family. They had ten children: Mary Elizabeth (1828-1848), Josephine Wilhelmina Jacoba (1829-1830), Susannah (1830-1913), Harriett (1832-1833), Anna Mercer (1833-1900), Helen (1835-1898), Josephine Austin (1837-1867), William Edward (1839-d.y.), William Edward (1840-1881) and Sarah Millicent (1842-1878). These children were contemporaries and great friends of J.G.A. and his brothers and sisters. Josephine Austin Pierce (‘Jo’) is constantly mentioned in J.G.A.’s letters and she eventually married Francis Webster Austin, a son of Wiltshire Stanton Austin.
Brother of Elizabeth Mary Pierce who married James Dear 1795-1831
Apparently married in 1861
Alice Henery Hendy married Rev. O.J. Straker, Rector of St Michael’s, Fort Wellington (a village on the East Coast of Demerara) and they had fi9ve children, a daughter who died in infancy, John James, Alice Redwar, Henry Lugar and William Austin.
181. Henry Lugar Straker
Henry Lugar Straker married Ellen Campbell in Georgetown in 1873. Many of their descendants now live in Canada.
William said she was born 9 April 1801
He was born in England and went to school at Charterhouse and then to Exeter College, Oxford. He is not to he confused with his cousin and near contemporary, William Piercy Austin who became a bishop. The latter was also at Exeter College, but a few years later. They both took Holy Orders and they were both ordained by Bishop Coleridge, a cousin of the poet, in St Michael's Cathedral in Bridgetown, Barbados. Demerara was then part of his Diocese. They were also both well-known members of the community in mid-Victorian times, but this William had returned to the colony as soon as he had taken his degree at Oxford. He held several cures before becoming Rural Dean of Essequibo, which post he held for the rest of his long life, becoming known as ‘The Old Dean’. His rectory was in Suddie, capital of the county, where he built St John's Church.
William made a romantic marriage with his cousin Anna Maria, daughter of his half-uncle Edward Austin. Their daughter Henrietta wrote to J.G.A.:-
‘I must tell you the correct version of my parents' marriage. After my grandmother's death, my mother was taken by her sister (i.e. the child's aunt) and provided for in Barbados until she was old enough to be sent away to school. War broke out between America and England (1812, when the White House was burnt) and the ship in which my mother was a passenger was taken by an American Privateer and she was taken to America where she was placed at school until peace was declared. She then went on to England to school. My grandfather's sister, Mary, told me that during the fight the captain was wounded and my mother tore up her flannel petticoat to bind up the wound. When my mother left school, my grandfather brought her out here (British Guiana) and my father who was in delicate health, came out with them. They had a six or eight weeks voyage and the young people naturally fell in love with each other. This made my grandfather very angry and he thought it best to send my mother back to her Aunt's care in Barbados. Father would not give her up but followed in the next schooner. H.M.S. 'Hyperion', a man-o'-war, was in Carlisle Bay, the chaplain of which was a fellow collegian and friend of father's, the Rev. J. Briggs by name. My father told him the story and it was arranged that the marriage should take place on board, which was done and Father told me that, as they rowed up to the ship, the band struck up 'See the Conquering Hero comes'. To satisfy the relations a second ceremony was gone through a year later in St Michael's Cathedral.’
The Old Dean’s first wife was in poor health in 1836 and he took her on a visit to his brother in Lennoxville, Quebec, probably to convalesce. Perhaps the journey was too arduous for her, for she died in Lennoxville in the same year.
The Old Dean married a second time to Anna Day from Essequibo, in 1837. She may have helped to bring up the children of his first wife.
In spite of his ‘delicate health’ in youth, William lived until 1884, dying in harness in Essequibo at the age of 85. In St Peter’s churchyard at Plantation Golden Fleece, Essequibo there is a tombstone bearing the inscription:
Sacred to the memory of Wm. Austin: Born in London, August 27, 1799: Died St John’s Rectory, Essequibo, May 17, 1884.
He was Rector of this Parish for 58 years six months, and was only absent from it for seven months of his Ministry.Other notes:
Memories by Margaret Young
I wonder if anyone in Essequibo today remembers old Dean Austin, such a charming gentleman, his height and silver hair marked him out in any assembly. To everyone's dismay, he was once tossed by a runaway bull on Airy Hall stelling, but the magnificent Austin physique of which he had his full share caused him surprisingly few bad results. The latest off-shoot of that family, now about two months old, looks as if he has his full share of that magnificent physique.
In my childhood a visit to Dean Austin was a great pleasure, to sit in the drawing room of St.John's Rectory, Suddie, with the candles lit, two always stood in tall silver candle sticks, under large barrel-shaped glass shades, resting on the polished round table, which was at that time a feature of every drawing room, the shades were quite two feet high I think. Sitting there in the candlelight always gave me a curious sense of enjoyment; it reads like a page from some old book, does it not?Maria's Lodge (probably named after his wife), St.John's House (Rectory), St.John's Church are all at Suddie, Essequibo.
The Duffryn Mission was a few miles down the coast at the mouth of the Ituribisi.