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Elizabeth (Unknown) Austin (abt. 1605 - 1639)

Elizabeth "Betsy" Austin formerly [surname unknown]
Born about in Titchfield, Hampshire, Englandmap [uncertain]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 1626 in Englandmap
Descendants descendants
Mother of and
Died at about age 34 in Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Elizabeth (Unknown) Austin migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
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Biography

About 1626 she married in England to Richard AUSTIN, Jr. & they had 2 sons ...

- Richard AUSTIN, III b=15 Nov 1632 Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England d=15 Aug 1703 Charlestown, Suffolk Co, MA

- Anthony AUSTIN b=1636 Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England d=22 Aug 1708 Suffield, Hampshire Co, MA.

In April 1638 their family set sail from Southampton, England aboard the ship 'Bevis' for America. The ship manifest listed Richard Jr. as a tailor from "Bishopstocke" (also known as Bishop Stoke), traveling with his wife & 2 children.

On 16 May 1638 they landed in Boston Harbor, MA.

Shortly after their arrival, Richard;s brother-in-law, Edmund LITTLEFIELD (m=Agnes AUSTIN) "broke from his congregation" to then settle in Exeter, New Hampshire",

Research Notes

Her maiden surname is still unknown but it was not LITTLEFIELD ... that was an incorrect assumption by a modern researcher. The error occurred because her husband Richard AUSTIN had a brother-in-law surnamed LITTLEFIELD & it was erroneously assumed that he was the brother of Richard's wife, when in fact Edmund LITTLEFIELD was Richard's brother-in-law because Edmund had married Richard's sister Agnes AUSTIN.

      • There is a Richard Austin , born 1598 also from Bishopstoke that left Southampton 02 May 1638 on the ship " Themselves" with his wife and 2 children.[1]

Possible last name for Elizabeth could be Ayres, Airs. A marriage record for 1626 has a Richard Austin marrying a Eliz Ayres.[citation needed]

Sources

  1. ↑ Find My Past https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBOR%2FEARLYEMIGRATION%2FNORTHAMERICA%2F012372
  • "Complete Book of Immigrants 1607-1779" section#2 chapter#33 1638 by Peter Colham,
  • "Passengers to America" p49, 325.
  • U.S. & Canada, Passenger & Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s code#263 199 available at ancestry.com for Richard AUSTIN @40 b=abt.1598 arrival=1638 Massachusetts.
  • There is a find a grave profile for this person: Find A Grave: Memorial #27389674 Note: no burial at the cemetery claimed. LNAB is also wrong Cole-12288 16:07, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

The Ancestry Family Trees listed links below are no longer valid ...

Acknowledgment

  • Wikitree profile Unknown-13484 was created on 25 Sep 2010.
  • Austin-413 was created on 06 Mar 2011 through the import of 2011-03-05 Smith Tree.ged.
  • The profiles below have also been merged into this profile ...
Austin-1376
Austin-2270
Littlefield-652 was created on 4 Sep 2014.




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Stills-18 Michael Stills
Andrews-10846 and Unknown-13484 appear to represent the same person because: No sources attached, same vitals, same husband, merge into Unknown.
posted by Michael Stills
Lavieri-1 Deirdre Lavieri
Please double check to make sure this person should be linked to Richard Austin as spouse. It does not seem that the info about their children are the same. Also, this person has two Robert's as sons. Could they be one and the same? Thanks for checking.
posted by Deirdre Lavieri
G (Redmond) R
Littlefield-652 and Unknown-13484 appear to represent the same person because: same person married to same husband. Her maiden surname is unknown. Please see note how LITTLEFIELD was NOT her maiden surname ... it was her brother-in-law's surname.
posted by G (Redmond) R
G (Redmond) R
Austin-413 and Unknown-13484 appear to represent the same person because: AUSTIN is her married surname.
posted by G (Redmond) R
G (Redmond) R
follow up to previous comment: LITTLEFIELD was not her maiden surname. Edmund LITTLEFIELD was Richard AUSTIN's brother-in-law because he had married Richard's sister Agnes AUSTIN. This is shown in the wikipedia source under the #10 link. LITTLEFIELD had no blood relation to Richard's wife Elizabeth (of unknown maiden surname).
posted by G (Redmond) R
G (Redmond) R
Her maiden surname was not LITTLEFIELD. This was an incorrect assumption by a modern researcher. The error occurred because her husband Richard AUSTIN had a brother-in-law surnamed LITTLEFIELD & it was erroneously assumed that he was the brother of Richard's wife when in fact Edmund LITTLEFIELD was Richard's brother-in-law because Edmund had married Richard's sister Agnes AUSTIN.
posted by G (Redmond) R
Gierszewski-4 Paul Gierszewski
According to this profile, Richard was both her brother and her husband. Is this correct, or should she be unlinked from Richard's parents (different last name)?
posted by Paul Gierszewski
[Living Gibson]
Littlefield-652 and Unknown-183564 are not ready to be merged because: I found and updated Austin-755 with her correct last name at birth, Littlefield, ref.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Austin_(colonist). This has been merged into Littlefield-652. The last name at birth on Unknown-18364 needs to be changed to Littlefield in order for the merge to continue.

posted by [Living Gibson]

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