It all began with a family tree put together by an aunt years ago following the Twort line. Twort was my grandmother’s maiden name. The aunt had been unable to go any further back than Thomas Twort (1675-1724) who had married Mary Tanner (1683-1742). Our aunt had added a note that the graves of their spinster daughters, Susanna and Elizabeth, were to be found at St Margaret’s Church**, Horsmonden, Kent.
This prompted my cousin Laura to visit St Margaret’s Church in 1979 where she found the graves as indicated. While she was there she wandered through the graveyard and was excited to find several Austen graves nearby.
Could there be a link between the Austens and Tworts?
There were some side branches of the Twort family on the aunt’s tree and we noticed that Thomas Twort (where
