Before 28th December 1804 [her father] George Augustus Nash and [her mother] Lydia Watson were married.
On 24th June 1826 Frederic Leighton [aged 26] and Augusta Susan Nash [aged 21] were married.
On 23rd November 1828 [her daughter] Alexandra Leighton was born to [her husband] Frederic Leighton [aged 29] and Augusta Susan Nash [aged 23]. She married 7th March 1857 Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr.
On 3rd December 1830 [her son] Frederick Leighton 1st Baron Leighton was born to [her husband] Frederic Leighton [aged 31] and Augusta Susan Nash [aged 25]. at Scarborough, North Yorkshire [Map].
Around 1833 [her husband] Frederic Leighton [aged 33] and Augusta Susan Nash [aged 28] relocated to 22 Argyle Street, London.
On 10th September 1835 [her daughter] Augusta Leighton was born to [her husband] Frederic Leighton [aged 35] and Augusta Susan Nash [aged 30]. She married 9th May 1859 Arthur Matthews.
In 1853 [her husband] Frederic Leighton [aged 53] and Augusta Susan Nash [aged 48] moved to 9 The Circus, Bath, to be near Fred's mother and also Augusta Susan's uncle, James Watson.
On 7th March 1857 [her son-in-law] Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr [aged 41] and [her daughter] Alexandra Leighton [aged 28] were married at Bath, Somerset [Map]. He died fifteen months later.
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In 1859 Frederic Leighton [aged 59] and Augusta Susan Nash [aged 54] travelled to Florence with their daughters Gussie and the recently widowed1 Alexandra aka Lina [aged 30].
Note 1. Her husband Major Sutherland George Gordon Orr [aged 42] had died on 19th June 1858.
On 9th May 1859 [her son-in-law] Arthur Matthews and [her daughter] Augusta Leighton [aged 23] were married.
In 1865 Augusta Susan Nash [aged 60] died.
On 24th January 1892 [her former husband] Frederic Leighton [aged 92] died at 11 Kensington-park-gardens.