Charles Austen's Family
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Charles John Austen (IV) [4] continued.
He left one son –
Charles John Austen
Edith Ada Austen. [4]
[Edith Ada Austen's full entry is transcribed on a separate page.]
Born May 9th 1884.
Account of her life from a local newspaper:
Death of Gilvern Teacher.
Relative of Jane Austen.
Miss E.A. Austen, for many years a member of the Gilvern School teaching staff, died on April 10th (1949) at Shalbourne, near Marlborough. She had been away on sick leave for some months past but appeared to be making steady progress towards recovery, and intended re-commencing duties on May 1st. It was her intention to retire from teaching on July 31st this year, when she would have reached 65 years of age.
Educated at St Michaels College, Wantage, the late Miss Austen joined the Gilvern staff in 1920, and since then two generations of children have had the benefit of her skill, energy and ladylike example. Many of her former pupils are now married women with children of their own and wished for nothing better than that their children should be taught by the late Miss Austen – as indeed some were.
She was extremely successful with young children. She ...
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