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austen Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Austin, associated chiefly with southeastern England, especially Kent.
  2. German: from a reduced form of the personal name Augustin.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The austen name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the austen family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of austen Families in the US in 1920
Number of austen families
 42-82
 15-41		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 57 - Messages: 148
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Joseph Austen-Kent, England and Eleanor Burgis of Sandhurst beemchen 1
Jane Austen or Austin LindaWelch75 1
Douglas James Austen Brian Austen 15
Minter Austen - 1824 Amber C 10
austen's of james and york counties, va jeremywinfrey 0
Charles Austen. Kent, England Tedbryant13 0
Grubbs and Austin or Austen Photos Nadine_Kirchner 0
William Austen PeterAusten47 9
Mary Austen Kentishlass 10
Leslie Austen oakham61 0
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