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Richard Austin

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of James Taylor — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2824 
  • Father:
  • Richard Austin 
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  • Annes -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1598 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Titchfield, Hampshire, England 
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  Richard Austin

  (probable) Anthony Austin (Ahnentafel No:1412 )

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  • Richard Austin of Charlestown (now Boston), Massachusetts, is often claimed to be the son of Richard Austin from Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England, and the nephew of Annis (Austin) Littlefield, who were both passengers aboard the Bevis in 1638. Both Thomas Wyman in 1879 and Robert Charles Anderson in 2015 stated that there is no evidence to support this making the claim circumstantial at best.

• Sources for Richard Austin

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 12, says it's unproven that this Richard Austin is the same as that on Bevis in 1638.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 12, says it's unproven that this Richard Austin is the one at Charlestown, Massachusetts.
  • ³ Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Annis Spear, 1775-1858, of Litchfield, Maine, Portland, Maine: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press (1945), 78.
  • ⁴ Moore, Edith Austin and William Allen Day, The Descendants of Richard Austin of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1638, n. p.: n. p. (1969?), 9, the English origins claim in this book are without evidence.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 102.
  • ⁶ Virkus, Frederick Adams, ed., The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: First Families of America: A Genealogical Encyclopedia of the . . ., Chicago: multiple publishers (1925-), Vol. 3, p. 67.
  • ⁷ Warner, Frederick Chester, The Ancestry of Samuel, Freda and John Warner, Vol. 1, Boston, Massachusetts: Unknown (1949), 21.
  • ⁸ Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The genealogies and estates of Charlestown : in the county of Middlesex and commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1879), 28, says it's unproven that this Richard Austin is the same as that on Bevis in 1638.
  • ⁹ Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The genealogies and estates of Charlestown : in the county of Middlesex and commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1879), 28, says it's unproven that this Richard Austin is the one at Charlestown, Massachusetts.