L&T Archive 1998-2003

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In Response To: M.T. Th e Austen's first home ()

] The newly wedded couple moved into a house in Deane (or Dean), with a projected income of a couple of hundred a year.

] You can find Deane, drawn fairly accurately

My book Jane Austen: A Family Record describes Deane as:

"a low damp place with small inconvenient rooms, and scarcely two on the same level" (quoted from one of their family history sources) and "with a thatched mud wall round its garden".

The book also quotes from the Deane parish register:


From the 12th Day of July 1763 to the Fifth of Febry. 1764 There were seldom Two dry Days together in the seven Months and some times Twenty Days Rain together. The Waters rose at Dean Janry. 7th and there was no passing for Foot People until after Lady Day [25 March]; many Graves in the Church fell in and there was no getting to the Church but thro' the Common Field, the Parsonage Meadow and Garden...

And this is where George Austen brought his bride in April that same year!

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April 1764 (nfm)
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