xxxviii THE AUSTEN FAMILY. 



the Hulse family, Sir Hugh Hulse was engaged in 

 the wars in Normandy under King Henry II. , and 

 also with him in the army in Wales, when the 

 Welsh had a great overthrow there. He was then 

 knighted by the King in the fourth year of his 

 reign, A. D, 1157. 



John Austen, of Birchington, married one of his 

 lineal descendants and the heiress- at-law of the 

 Hulse family in 1590. 



John Austen died 1770, leaving ten children, 

 Mary, his wife, following him in 1781, and a 

 monument to their memory is affixed to the south 

 wall of the church. 



" In Memory of JOHN AUSTEN, son of John Austen, nearly 

 deposited, who by a conscientious and tender discharge 

 of all the social duties, as a benevolent friend to all 

 mankind, an affectionate parent, and kind husband, was 

 highly esteemed, and died greatly regretted on the llth 

 January, 1770. Also of MAKY, wife of the above John 

 Austen, and sister to Anne Hulse interred within the 

 Church. She died 7th December, 1781, aged 70 years." 



Rebecca, their eldest daughter, married the 

 Eeverend Thomas Gurney, Vicar of Sea Salter, near 

 Whitstable, Kent, who died 26th June, 1773, and 

 lies buried at St. Martin's ; and subsequently 

 William Hougham, the elder, of Barton, and 

 Pheasant Hall, near Canterbury, who, dying 30th 



