When Sarah Austen was born in 1779, in Boughton Aluph, Kent, England, her father, Thomas Austin, was 30 and her mother, Mary Anne Baldock, was 29. She died in December 1847, in Ospringe, Kent, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 68, and was buried in Ospringe, Kent, England, United Kingdom.
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The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
Former slave Olaudah Equiano settled in London and published his autobiography titled "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano." Equiano learned to read and write and converted to Christianity. His autobiography is one of the oldest published works by an African-American writer.
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
English: variant of Austin , associated chiefly with southeastern England, especially Kent.
German: from a shortened form of the personal name Augustin .
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