Joan Berry

Notes:

Her gravestone bears a brass representing a Jacobean lady, her hands clasped in prayer, wearing a great beaver hat and a high, pleated ruff. Above her effigy is a small brass plate with a Latin sentence that roughly translated says:"O friend, if you seek the grave of the one who prepared it, it was John my husband by the name of Austen."

Beneath her effigy is a larger brass plate stating:
"Here underlyeth the body of Joane Berry daughter of Jeffery Berry sometime of the parish of Midley and wyfe to John Austen of this pish [parish] of Horsmonden beinge of the age of 36 yeares who depted the 9th of Decemb: 1604 and left behind her 8 sones and one daughter. Vidz: John Jeffry [sic] Benjamin Robt Joane Francis Peter Thomas & Robid [sic - i.e. Richard] of wch two last she died in childbed often utteringe these speaches 'let nether husband nor chidren nor land nor goods separate me from the [thee] my God.'"

Joan married John Austen 10 Sep 1584, Lydd, Kent, England. John was born ca 1560, England; died Bef 5 March 1620, Horsemonden, Kent, England; was buried , St. Margaret of Antioch Church, Pisidia, Horsmonden, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Christened:
Genealogical Society of Utah. British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Name: Jeffery Austen
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 2 Jun 1588
Christening Place: Horsemonden, Kent, England
Father: John Austen

Jeffrey married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Buried:
Grave location and photo of church:
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=austen&GSiman=1&GScid=2331514&GRid=121794659&

Died:
Buried on 15 March in the church of St Margaret in Pisidia, Horsmonden. An inscription was added to the stone of his father, John: "Here lyeth the body of Francis Avsten of Grofehurst in this parish gent one of the sonnes of John Avsten who was buried the 15th day of March 1687 and in the 89th year of his age."

Francis married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Notes:

John Walton Green, "A Chest of History," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Apr., 1924), pp. 92-98.

"Thomas 'The Seagull' Green married Martha, the daughter of Major Henry Filmer, a British officer, whose wife's name was Elizabeth, both of whom were born in England. Henry Filmer was a member of the House of Burgesses from Charles City County in 1642. (Henings Statutes, Vol. 1"

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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=59610547

He [Henry Filmer] and his wife, Elizabeth Austin Filmer, daughter, son, cook and nephew Samuel, came to Virginia on ship "John & Ambrose" that embarked on 13 Mar 1652, off of Gravesend (northwest of Maidstone at the mouth of the Thames River and east of London).

Upon arriving in Virginia, he moved to Mulberry Island where he had a plantation called "Laus Deo". Henry referred to himself as "of Mulberry Island in Virginia, Gentleman" in an August 27, 1664 letter in the Kent Archives Office. "Laus Deo" was located in or near Felker Field, about where the site of the first heliopad ever built in the U. S. is now located at Fort Eustis.

"Warwick County, Virginia: Colonial Court Records in Transcription," by Richard Dunn, editor, concerning orders dated 1648-1651, p. 164....entries on that page cover the year 1650:

Mrs. Elizabeth "ffilmer" gave her age as about 49 years and gave her testimony concerning the paternity of a servant woman's infant.

She possibly returned to England after the death of her husband.



Christened:
England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Name: Elsabeth Austen
Gender: Female
Baptism Date: 20 Mar 1622
Baptism Place: Horsmonden, Kent, England
Father: Jeffrey Austen
FHL Film Number: 992521

Elizabeth married Henry Filmer 29 Mar 1641, Horsmonden, Kent, England. Henry (son of Sir Edward Filmer and Elizabeth Argall) was born Oct., 1607, East Sutton, Kent, England; was christened 01 Nov 1607, Kent, England; died Aft Feb. 21, 1671, Warwick Co. VA; was buried , Mulberry Island, Warwick Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Near this stone ly [sic] Intered ye (body) of John Austin, of Grovehurst: and John his Son, of (-?-): the Father died July ye (-?-) Aeta 56. He maryed Jane (-?-) Atkins, of Brightling (-?-) who died March ye 2d 1685 (-?-) Sons John Aforesd & William who died young & 3 daughters (Jane) maryed to Stephen Stringer of (Goudhurst) Gent: Ellen to Edward Osborn (died without) issue & Ann to John Holman of Tenterden Gent: (John his) Son died Sept. ye 21, 1704. (Left) Issue by Elizabeth his wife daughter of Thomas Weller of Tonbridge Gent: 6 Sons & 1 Daughter viz John Francis (-?-) William Robert Stephen & Elizabeth.
[Transcriber's note: This inscription is partly covered and some information is supplied as nearly as it can be ascertained.]

Died:
The Last Will and Testament of John Austen of Horsmonden, Clothier PROB11/483
Written 12 May 1705
Proved 24 November 1705

John married Jane Atkins. Jane was born Bef 22 Jan 1638, Brightling, Sussex ; died 02 Mar 1685, Horsemonden, Kent, England; was buried , Horsemonden, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

John Walton Green, "A Chest of History," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Apr., 1924), pp. 92-98.

"...the daughter of Major Henry Filmer, a British officer, whose wife's name was Elizabeth, both of whom were born in England. Henry Filmer was a member of the House of Burgesses from Charles City County in 1642. (Henings Statutes, Vol. 1"

Martha married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Martha married Thomas Green. Thomas was born 1635, Dinwiddie Co. VA or born at sea; died 1714, Ameila Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

John married Elizabeth Weller. Elizabeth was born Bef 21 Dec 1671; died ca 1721, Horsemonden, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]