A PEDIGREE OF AN AUSTEN FAMILY
originally from Suffolk, but who subsequently moved to London

This descent is extracted out of wills and other aunthentic documents..... and is ratified and confirmed by me.... Rd St George (Richard St George, ca 1550-1635), Clarenceux King of Arms at the College of Heralds..

Arms of the ancient family of Forcette of Marylebone, exemplified and confirmed to Edward Forcette of Marylebone and his desendants by me William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1611 (MS in the British Library).


Robert Austen of Myldnale (Mildenhall) in the county of Suffolk, married Katherine. They had issue:

1 Christopher.
2 Richard, the eldest son. He had issue:

John, the eldest son, who married Joan, daughter of Thomas Austen and a grand-daughter of Richard Mayhugh. He had issue:

Thomas, who had issue:

1 John, the eldest son.
2 Richard.
3 Thomas.
4 Alice, the wife of Edward Cassaia (?).
5 Anne sp.

John the eldest son married Helena. They had issue:

1 John, the eldest son, dsp.
2 Thomas, citizen and clothworker of London. He married 1stly Katherine, daughter of Thomas Meres of London. He married 2ndly Ann, daughter of Andrew Field, citizen and grocer of London. They had issue:

1 Thomas, the eldest son.
2 John, who married Susan, daughter of James Winstanley of Gray's Inn, Esq.They had a daughter Katherine, dsp.
3 Andrew.
4 Anne, the eldest daughter.
5 Sarah.

Thomas, the eldest son, married Kathrine, daughter of Robert Wilson, citizen and draper of London. They had issue:

1 Thomas, the eldest son.
2 Katherine, sp.
3 Robert.
4 unknown.
5 Anne, who married Skyner Byde (?).

Thomas, the eldest son. married Arabella, daughter of Edward Forsett of Marylebone, Esq. They had issue:. They had issue:

1 John, the eldest son, dsp.
2 Katherine, sp.
3 Anne, sp.
4 Thomas, dsp.
5 Arabella, sp.

 

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