Rebecca Hampson

Female Bef 1693 - 1732  (~ 38 years)


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  • Name Rebecca Hampson 
    Born Bef 17 Sept 1693  Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Parish Record, Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire, register of baptisms.
    Gender Female 
    Died 6 Feb 1732  Tonbridge, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • From a stone slab, on the floor of the North aisle of St Peter and St Paul, Tonbridge:
      "REBECCA ye wife of WILLIAM AUSTEN Surgeon
      Daughter of SIR GEORGE HAMPSON Bart.
      Died Feby 6th 1732 Aged 36 years
    Buried St Peter and St Pau'ls, Tonbridge, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • She was baptised at Blethington, Oxfordshire on 17 September 1693. Her Godparents were John Coghill and Mrs. Coghill (presumably her maternal grandparents), and Mrs. Knapp (her aunt Elizabeth, née Coghill).

      She married William Walter, MD around 1721 and had one son. She then married William Austen, another physician.
    Person ID I36328  Master File
    Last Modified 20 Feb 2017 

    Family William Austen, M. D.,   b. Bef 18 Feb 1700, Horsemonden, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Dec 1737, Tonbridge, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 37 years) 
    Married 13 Jan 1727  Liberty of the Fleet, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Registers of Clandestine Marriages and of Baptisms in the Fleet Prison, King's Bench Prison, the Mint and the May Fair Chapel. Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Registrar General (RG) series 7. The National Archives, Kew, England.

      Name: William Austen
      Gender: Male
      Event Type: Marriage
      Marriage Date: Jan 1727
      Marriage Place: London, England
      Residence: Tunbridge
      Spouse: Rebecca Walter
      Spouse Residence: Tunbridge
      Officiating Ministers: Starke, Gaynam, and others not named [Gaynam's Register]. (1726 Jul - 1729 Jun)

      [Note: prisons like the Fleet and the King?s Bench were once popular destinations for folks interested in quick, no-questions-asked nuptials]
    Children 
    +1. Rev. George Austen,   b. 01 May 1731, Tonbridge, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 01 Jan 1805, Bath, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
    Last Modified 20 Feb 2017 
    Family ID F14998  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart