AUSTEN, Alexander

1859 - 1924

As Alexander Austen, sometimes known as Auston or Austin, he was born at 5 Buxton Place, Lambeth, London on 6 April 1859, son of William Austen (1825-10 February 1882), an engineer, and his wife Mary Ann née Austen, only daughter of Mrs Clark, who married at St James's Church, Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk on 30 August 1853. In 1861, Alexander was a 2-year-old living with his parents, 38-year-old William Auston [sic] and 43-year-old Mary Ann with sibling sister Eliza 5, at the home of his grand-parents at 5 Buxton Place, Lambeth, London. Alexander married at Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk in 1880, Bertha Wiffin Osborne (23 November 1859-1953), who was born at Sicklesmere, Suffolk and the following year, was a 22-year-old artist painter, living at Hawstead Lane, Great Whelnetham, Suffolk with his 20-year-old wife Bertha, together with his father, 57-year-old widower William Austin, a photographer, who unfortunately committed suicide at his home in February 1882. Alexander was a genre painter in oil, of figures, interiors and characters, often in period costume including titles 'A Music Recital', 'The Chess Players' and 'The China Mender'. In 1891, a 30-year-old artist in oils, living at Oak Villa, Middle Road, Boveney, Eton, Buckinghamshire with his 30-year-old wife and children, Vernon Guy 6 and Cecil Osborne 4, who were both born at Sicklesmere and 2-year-old Bertha Isabel, who was born at Boveney. By 1911, as Austen, they had moved to Glen Eader, Carlyle Road, Ealing with their other children (Bertha) Isabel 21, Leslie 17, who were both born at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, and Dorothy 15, who was born at Ealing. Alexander Austen was of 8 Cedar Avenue, Whitton, Twickenham when he died at 30 Twickenham Road, Isleworth, London on 15 September 1924 and his wife died at Shardlow, Derbyshire in 1953.

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