Frank Austen's Family
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Catherine Anne Austen [2] continued.
'She married John Hubback and had three sons; John (my grandfather( Edward and Charles.
The two younger sons both went to America about 1870, and she went too and kept house for Edward in California, eventually dying there.'
– Her great-granddaughter, Miss Helen Brown.
Catherine Anne Austen
Portraits of Catherine Anne Austen
Catherine Anne died February 25th 1877, having had issue:
John Henry Hubback. [3]
Born 1844.
In business in Liverpool.
Co-Author, with his daughter Edith Charlotte, of 'Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers'. Published in 1906.
'You will see that the authors of 'Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers' were my own father, John Henry Hubback – and my sister Edith (mother of Miss Helen Brown) and that Catherine Austen was my grandmother. I remember her quite well, though she went to America when I was a child.'
– Miss Caroline Hubback.
'He was actually brought up in the house of his grandfather, Sir Frances Austen. His father, John Hubback, had a serious illness, brain fever – from which he never fully recovered, and Catherine Anne went back, with her three little boys, to live with her father and sister (Fanny Sophia) to live at Portsdown...
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