Talk:Henry William Austin

Watt reference
The Stephen Watt reference seems scholarly enough to me. I do realise, from the point of view of WP:RS, that it is a master's dissertation. Charles Matthews (talk) 04:56, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

H. W. Austin
Besides the Rev. Hugh Williams Austin, and his son Hugh Williams Austin, there is a brother of William Piercy Austin also Hugh Williams Austin, who is mentioned in An Old Colonial Family, 1685-1900 (Dora P. Burslem and Audrie D. Manning, 1973). It seems probable that this third H. W. Austin is the one given as Receiver-General of Jamaica. In fact what is said in an Austins of America Genealogical Society Newsletter, 1997, about his 1833 marriage to Mary Theodore Margaret Stewart, would clinch it. The mentions in Caribbean contexts of H. W. Austin in the years before 1880 seem to be about him.

I decided that the fisheries officer H. W. Austin for the Montreal and Richelieu district, of Chambly, was Hugh Whitchurch Austin, brother of Henry William Austin. That was based on the place of death. The overlap of the fishing inspector tenure with the Bahamas post made it unlikely to be Henry William Austin. Charles Matthews (talk) 06:14, 10 December 2020 (UTC)