Return to Jane Austen's Letters (Brabourne Edition)
Some miscellaneous annotations added by H. Churchyard (not in the original printed Brabourne edition of Jane Austen's Letters).
Austen Family Genealogical Charts
See also the Genealogical Charts for Pride and Prejudice
And the Genealogical Charts for Sense and Sensibility
And the Genealogical Charts for Mansfield Park
And the Genealogical Charts for Emma
And the Genealogical Charts for Persuasion
Genealogical chart for Jane Austen's Letters
The main purpose of this chart is to give the casual reader of Jane Austen's letters some hope of identifying some of the individuals referred to there. For further information, and the identification of more remotely related or unrelated individuals, see the appendices of Chapman's later edition of the Letters, and the indexes and genealogical charts in Le Faye's revision of the Life.
Other genealogy charts for Jane Austen's family are below
The following conventions are used in the chart below:
- Women whose husband is shown are listed by their maiden names.
- The way in which Jane Austen refers to a person in her letters is put between double quotes ("...").
- Places of residence are CAPITALIZED (note that Godmersham, Goodnestone, Rowling, and Wrotham are in the county of Kent, while Steventon, Chawton, Ashe, Deane, Manydown, Wyards, Ibthorpe, and Kintbury are all in the vicinity of northwestern Hampshire).
- The names of each of Jane Austen's siblings are linked to brief descriptions in the Jane Austen biography file.
- Events (marriages, deaths, and children born) that took place after Jane Austen died (July 1817) are generally not shown. Some individuals who are links in the genealogies, but who died before Jane Austen's first surviving letters (1796), are also not shown.
[2nd cousins]
+-------+
| |
| === "Mrs. Knight"
| (died 1812)
|
+---+-------+ +-----------------+----------------+
| | | | |
| | | | |
| Rev. George Austen === Cassandra Leigh James Leigh === Jane |
| "My Father" | "My Mother" Perrot Cholmeley |
| (1731-1805) | (born 1739) "My Uncle" "My Aunt" |
| STEVENTON, BATH | SOUTHAMPTON, CHAWTON (died 1817) |
| | BATH (PARAGON), |
| | SCARLETS |
Eliza de | |
Feuillide | Rev. Edward Cooper
(1761-1813) | HARPSDEN, HAMSTALL
[see below] |
|
|
+----------+----------+ +---------+
| | | |
| | | |
| James Austen === Anne Mathew Anne Brydges === Isaac Lefroy |
| (born 1765) | (died 1795) (died 1804) | (1745-1806) |
| DEANE, STEVENTON | (1st wife) "Mrs. Lefroy" | ASHE |
| | | |
| Anna Austen === Benjamin Lefroy Tom Lefroy
| (born 1793) | (born 1791) (born 1776)
| | ASHE, WYARDS IRELAND
| Jemima
| (born 1815)
|
|
| +-----------------------+
| | |
| "Mrs. Lloyd" |
| (died 1806) === Rev. Thomas
| IBTHORPE | Fowle
| | | KINTBURY
| +----+----+------+ +-+---------+
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| [see above] === Mary Lloyd Martha Eliza === Fulwar Fowle Thomas
| | (born 1771) Lloyd KINTBURY (d 1797)
| | (2nd. wife) [Fiancé
| +--+------------------------+ of Cas-
| | | sandra
| | | Austen]
| James Edward Austen(-Leigh) Caroline
| "Edward" (born 1805)
| (born 1798)
|
|
| "Lady Bridges"
| GOODNESTONE FARM
+----------+ |
| | +------------+---+----------------+
| | | | |
| Edward Austen Knight === Elizabeth Sir Brook Bridges "Harriot"
| (born 1767; heir to | Bridges (born 1767) Bridges
| Mr. and Mrs. Knight) | (1773-1808) GOODNESTONE (born 1781)
| ROWLING, GODMERSHAM | WROTHAM
| +----+--------+-------------+-----------+
| | | | |
| | | | |
| Fanny Knight Edward George etc.
| (born 1793) (born 1794) (born 1795)
| | "itty Dordie"
| |
| Lord Brabourne
| (see next chart below)
|
+----------+
| |
| |
| Henry Austen === Eliza de Feuillide
| (born 1771) (1761-1813)
| LONDON [see above]
|
+----------+
| |
| |
| Cassandra Austen [Fiancée of
| (born 1773) Thomas Fowle]
|
+----------+
| |
| |
| Frank Austen === Mary Gibson
| (born 1774) | (1790-1814)
| RAMSGATE, |
| SOUTHAMPTON |
| +-+-------+
| | |
| | |
| Mary Jane etc.
| (born 1807)
|
+----------+
| |
| |
| Jane Austen
| (1775-1817)
|
|
+----------+
|
|
Charles Austen === Frances Palmer
(born 1779) | (1790-1814)
BERMUDA |
+----------+----+--------------+
| | |
Cassandra Esten Harriet Fanny
(born 1808) (born 1810) (born 1812)
"Cassie"
Graphic image charts of Jane Austen's family
Some genealogy chart images (based on Austen-Leigh and Le Faye's Jane Austen: A Family Record) formerly found at the defunct Rosny "Jane Austen's Corner" bookmarks website:
Jane Austen's father's family
Jane Austen's mother's family
Jane Austen's immediate family
Jane Austen's brother James' family
Jane Austen's brother Edward's family
Jane Austen's brother Francis's family
The connection between descendants of Fanny Knight and the British royal family
This genealogical tree was assembled by Mark Humphrys, partly using the Burkes Peerage entries BRABOURNE and SLIGO as sources.
Mark Humphrys also has web-pages on Jane Austen's descent from Edward III of England: Leigh, Grey, etc. (though the specific chart formerly on his pages seems to have disappeared).
George Austen = Cassandra Leigh
born 1731 | born 1739
|
+---------------------+-------+---------------------+
| | |
Edward Austen Cassandra Austen Jane Austen
born 7 Oct 1768 (1767?) born 1773 born 1775
adopted the surname Knight
|
|
Fanny Catherine Knight
born 1793 Queen Victoria
(portrait) |
| +------------+------------+
| | |
1st Lord Brabourne Princess Edward VII
born 1829 Alice |
title of Baron created 1880 | |
edited Austen `Letters' 1884 | |
| | |
| | |
4th Lord Brabourne Victoria George V
born 1863 von Hessen |
| | |
| +----+------------+ |
| | | |
5th Lord Brabourne = Doreen Browne Lord Mountbatten Alice George VI
born 1895 | born 29 May 1896 born 25 Jun 1900 Mount- |
died 1939 | daughter of the 6th killed 1979 batten |
| Marquess of Sligo | | |
| killed 1979 | | |
| | | |
7th Lord Brabourne = Patricia Mountbatten Prince = Elizabeth II
born 9 Nov 1924 | born 14 Feb 1924 § Philip |
(not 1918) § | |
| |
+-------------+---------------+-------+ |
| | | |
other Timothy Knatchbull Nicholas Knatchbull Prince Charles
children born 18 Nov 1964 § born 18 Nov 1964 (Lord Mountbatten
twin with Nicholas twin with Timothy was a father
killed 1979 figure to him)
("Killed 1979" refers to the IRA assasination of Lord Mountbatten; individuals labeled with a "§" symbol were involved in the attack, but survived.)
Miscellaneous Notes
See also the Index of allusions to books and authors in Jane Austen's writings.- "Prize":
- A captured enemy ship (as in Persuasion); the value of the "prize" was partly divided among the crew of the capturing ship. A junior officer's share of prize money could be very large compared to his regular salary.
- "Margiana" (January 10, 1809):
- According to Chapman's notes, this is the 1808 novel Margiana, or Widdrington Tower by Mrs. S. Sykes.
- "Mother" (January 24, 1809):
- It was supposedly considered less genteel to refer to one's mother as just "mother" (rather than as "my mother" -- this latter form, with the possessive pronoun, is what Jane Austen always uses in referring to her own mother).
- "Receipt":
- Could also mean "recipe" (either culinary, or for a medical remedy).
- "Typical" (January 29, 1813):
- Typographical.
- "Chay" (in Mrs. Knight's letter):
- Supposed servant vulgarism for the word "chaise".
- "Plumper" (in Brabourne's notes):
- When the British parliament had multimember constituencies, there was a rudimentary system of cumulative voting: if there were two members of parliament to be elected in the constituency, then each voter had two votes, and he could either give two of the candidates one vote apiece, or give a single candidate both of his votes -- this last was called a "plumper" vote.
