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A CHRONOLOGY OF THE AUSTEN FAMILY

1764 26 April, Marriage of the Revd George Austen and Cassandra

Leigh.

1765 13 February, James Austen, JEAL’s father and JA’s eldest

brother, born at Deane.

1766 26 August, George Austen the younger born at Deane.

1767 7 October, Edward Austen born at Deane.

1768 July/August, Austen family move to Steventon.

1771 8 June, Henry Austen born at Steventon.

1773 9 January, Cassandra Austen born at Steventon; 23 March,

the Revd Austen becomes Rector of Deane as well as Steventon;

Pupils are boarded at Steventon from now until 1796.

1774 23 April, Francis (Frank) Austen born at Steventon.

1775 16 December, JA born at Steventon.

1779 23 June, Charles Austen born at Steventon.

1781 Marriage of JA’s cousin, Eliza Hancock, to Jean-François

Capot de Feuillide, in France.

1783 Edward Austen adopted by Mr and Mrs Thomas Knight of

Godmersham, Kent.

1785–6 JA and Cassandra attend the Abbey School, Reading.

1786 Eliza de Feuillide’s son Hastings born.

1787 JA begins writing juvenilia.

1787–9 Amateur theatricals are performed at Steventon.

1789 Spring, the Lloyd family rent Deane parsonage.

1791 27 December, marriage of Edward Austen and Elizabeth

Bridges.

1792 The Lloyds leave Deane for Ibthorpe; marriage of James

Austen and Anne Mathew and their removal to Deane parsonage;

(?) Winter, Cassandra engaged to the Revd Tom Fowle.

1793 23 January, Edward Austen’s first child, Fanny, born; 15 April,

James Austen’s first child, Anna, born; 3 June, JA writes last

item of juvenilia.

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