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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Refered to in father's will. FHL film 188826 "Rochester Consistory Court, Kent" registered will DRb/Pw 35:15, original will DRb/Pw54:
Ambrose Austen of Brenchley, yeoman
Date of will 19 May 1737
- Sister Sarah Austen to receive two guineas.
- "Dear Daughter Mary Austen (born unto me by my first wife)" who is in "her minority" to receive 100 pounds and be under the guardianship of the executors.
- "Rest and Residue ... to my Dear and Loving wife [unnamed], in Satisfaction of her Marriage Bond and to enable her the better to provide for her own child my other Daughter [unnamed] whom I commit to the Guardianship of her mother."
- Executors "my two friends and Neighbours, Ambrose Gibbons and Thomas Boorman both of Brenchley."
- Witnesses J. Strother Clerk, Mary Relse, and Mary Larkin.
Probated 5 Aug 1737.
2. Kent Records Office "TR 1900/2 - MI's (Kent) - Barming, Brenchley, Hunton, Teston," transcribed by J.E. Frost, 1974:
"Ambrose Austen of this Parish, d. June 11, 1737, in the 39th year of his age. (BT: bur. June 16, 1737)
He left issue 2 daus., Mary by his 1st w., and Elizabeth by his 2nd.
This stone was erected by daughter, Elizabeth."
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