] It was a tough life for George Austen six and his two sisters,Philadelphia seven and Leonora five,losing both their parents. (There had been a third sister with the unusual name Hampson, who died young).

The name Hampson was the maiden name of George Austen's mother Rebecca. Her father (so George Austen's grandfather, Jane's great-grandfather) had been Sir George Hampsson, a baronet and a physician.

]And no one really wanted to take care of them. Not their stepmother Susanna Kelk(she had perhaps no means to),but there was money for education left by their father.