The close family link of the Vaughans of Golden Grove, and the Tudor royal family.
Lyra
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The following post
first sent in today
as a post in the thread
"Thomas Harriot beat Galileo by nearly six months... Maths students
can also thank him for giving us modern algebra . . . and the potato!"
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(the post
http://groups.google.com/group/humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/msg/fa5697ea828f3d3f
)
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On Jan 26, 6:40 pm, Lyra wrote:
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> > > More about the Vaughans of Golden Grove.
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The following excerpts from earlier posts today,
show
1. how the Vaughans and other Welsh gentry
had great power and prestige.
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2. the close family link of the Vaughans of Golden Grove,
and the Tudor royal family.
The Vaughans descend from the sister of Owen Tudor,
who is the founding ancestor of the family of
Elizabeth I.
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1.
Welsh gentry families occupied a position of authority and they
ruled
unquestioned, unchallenged and obeyed.
They owned most of Wales and
from the time of the Acts of Union 1536 until 1889 when the County
Councils were established they administered both national and local
government as country squires.
They had sole Parliamentary
representation and enjoyed a monopoly of all official judicial
posts
including Lieutenant, Deputy Lieutenant, Sheriff, Magistrate, and
acted as commissioners of parliamentary acts.
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2.
The Vaughan family of Llanelli
Hugh Fychan was the son of Gruffydd Fychan
and
Katherine daughter of Maredudd ap Tudor
Katherine was also the sister of Owain Tudor (executed 1461, son of
Maredudd ap Tudor).
Owain Tudor had married Catherine de Valois, the widow of Henry V,
and
they had four children, Edmund, Jasper, Owain, who became a monk, and
a daughter, Margaret, who died very young.
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An entry in a book of the Household Expenses of Henry VII, ‘Item to
Hugh Vaughan for ij harpers xiijs, 10d, 2d Jan, 1497,’ shows that
Hugh Vaughan was living and in the King’s service in 1497.
In 1532 Hugh Fychan gained more promotions, through his father-in-
law’s influence when he was appointed Groom of the Chamber at Court
He was also appointed Keeper and Receiver of lands in Kidwelly,
which
had been confiscated by Henry VIII, from Rhys ap Gruffydd of Dinefwr
as a penalty for acts of treason Rhys ap Gruffydd was Jane’s
relative.
With the help of his father-in-law, Hugh became exceedingly
influential and wealthy, and with his wife Jane they founded the
powerful and influential Fychan or Vaughan family, who were later to
settle at Golden Grove.
Hugh and Jane had one son John Vaughan (d 1574) and eight daughters.
http://wwwllanelli-historyi12com/people_vaughan_hughhtm
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> The early days...
> `````````
> (quote)
> Home
> People from the past
> Hugh Vaughan
> The Vaughan family of Llanelli
> Hugh Fychan was the son of Gruffydd Fychan and Katherine daughter of
> Maredudd ap Tudor. Katherine was also the sister of Owain Tudor
> (executed 1461, son of Maredudd ap Tudor).
> Owain Tudor had married Catherine de Valois, the widow of Henry V, and
> they had four children, Edmund, Jasper, Owain, who became a monk, and
> a daughter, Margaret, who died very young.
> Edmund Tudor married Margaret Beaufort heiress, daughter of John of
> Gaunt and his one time mistress Catherine Swynford.
> Margaret Beaufort was also the great great grand-daughter of Edward
> III, and her son Henry Tudor, who was born after her husband Edmund
> Tudor died, was destined to become Henry VII, King of England, the
> first of the Tudor Dynasty.
> Hugh Fychan who had come to Carmarthenshire in 1485, just after the
> Battle of Bosworth, claimed he was descended from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn,
> Prince of Powys who had been killed in the Kingdom of Deheubarth in
> 1075 during the Battle of Ystrad Tywi.
> Hugh Fychan married Jane the daughter of Morris ap Owain, grandson of
> the powerful and influential Gruffydd ap Nicholas, and the family home
> was Cwrt Bryn y Beirdd, a very large and ancient mansion near Carreg
> Cennen Castle. Jane’s father Morris ap Owen had been a staunch
> supporter of Henry Tudor during his struggle to seize the English
> throne from Richard III.
> Soon after the Battle of Bosworth, in 1485, when Richard III was
> beheaded and Henry Tudor was crowned Henry VII, King of England,
> Morris ab Owen was appointed Steward of the Lordship of Kidwelly and
> Receiver of the two Commotes of Iscennen and Carnwyllion.
> As a wealthy and influential landowner, Morris ap Owain was in an
> excellent position to promote his son-in-law’s career, and during 1485
> Hugh Fychan was appointed Forester of Kidwelly.
> In May 1492 it is said that Hugh Vaughan, Esq., of Kidwelly, Gentleman
> Usher to Henry VII, took part in a great tournament held by the King
> at Richmond in Surrey. Vaughan fought a duel with the knight, Sir
> James Parker, concerning a disagreement over the arms to him and for
> which he had the King’s permission to use. According to an account
> published in 1631, the unfortunate Sir James was accidentally killed
> at the first encounter and described thus:
> ‘A combate was holden, and done betwixt Sir James Parker, knight and
> Hugh Vaughan, Gentleman-Usher upon controversie for the Armes that
> Garter gave to the said Hugh Vaughan; but he was there allowed by the
> King to beare them, and Sir James Parker was slaine at the first
> course. The cause of his death was thought to be long of a false
> helmet, which by force of the Cronacle, fayled and so he was stricken
> into the mouth, that his tongue was borne into the hinder part of the
> head and he died incontinently.’
> An entry in a book of the Household Expenses of Henry VII, ‘Item to
> Hugh Vaughan for ij harpers xiijs., 10d., 2d Jan, 1497,’ shows that
> Hugh Vaughan was living and in the King’s service in 1497.
> In 1532 Hugh Fychan gained more promotions, through his father-in-
> law’s influence when he was appointed Groom of the Chamber at Court.
> He was also appointed Keeper and Receiver of lands in Kidwelly, which
> had been confiscated by Henry VIII, from Rhys ap Gruffydd of Dinefwr
> as a penalty for acts of treason. Rhys ap Gruffydd was Jane’s
> relative.
> With the help of his father-in-law, Hugh became exceedingly
> influential and wealthy, and with his wife Jane they founded the
> powerful and influential Fychan or Vaughan family, who were later to
> settle at Golden Grove.
> Hugh and Jane had one son John Vaughan (d. 1574) and eight daughters.
> http://www.llanelli-history.i12.com/people_vaughan_hugh.htm
Lyra
* * *
The close family link of the Vaughans of Golden Grove, and the Tudor
royal family.
* * *
Why does this matter?
Well, there may be a link to the book
Golden Grove, written by a Vaughan,
(1601?)
which seemed to know more than should have done
about the Marlowe/Deptford incident.
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Also, there's a link from the V.s of G. G.
to the families in the
"Did Shakespeare visit Wales (and Whitney on Wye)?"
mystery.
For more on this, see my blog on the topic,
http://shakespeares-welsh-cave.blogspot.com/
> ````````````````````````````
>
> The following post
> first sent in today
> as a post in the thread
>
> "Thomas Harriot beat Galileo by nearly six months... Maths students
> can also thank him for giving us modern algebra . . . and the potato!"
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/bro...
>
> ````````````````````````````
>
> (the post
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/msg...
> ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
> ``````````````````````````````````
Lyra
* * *
> The close family link of the Vaughans of Golden Grove, and the Tudor
> royal family.
* * *
> Why does this matter?
Two reasons...
There may be a link to the book
>
> Golden Grove, written by a Vaughan,
>
> (1601?)
>
> which seemed to know more than should have done
> about the Marlowe/Deptford incident.
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(quote)
Meanwhile, in 1600, only seven years after the event,
William Vaughan had published a rather different and
more circumstantial story in his Golden Grove, which
Wood evidently had not seen:
"Not inferiour to these was one Christopher Marlow by
"profession a playmaker, who, as it is reported, about
"7. yeeres a-goe wrote a booke against the Trinitie: but
"see the effects of Gods iustice; it so hapned, that at
"Detford, a little village about three miles distant from
"London, as he meant to stab with his ponyard one
"named Ingram, that had inuited him thither to a feast,
"and was then playing at tables, he quickly perceyuing
"it, so auoyded the thrust, that withall drawing out his
"dagger for his defence, hee stabd this Marlow into the
"eye, in such sort, that his braines comming out at the
"daggers point, hee shortlie after dyed. Thus did God,
t4 the true executioner of diuine iustice, worke the ende
"of impious Atheists."
For more than a hundred years after Anthony a Wood
the stories were repeated without any significant ad-
dition, and memory of Elizabethan times was grown
so dim in certain quarters that men even questioned
the fact that Marlowe had ever existed. But in 1820
James Broughton, the literary antiquary, on ruminat-
ing Vaughan's detailed account of the matter, conceived
the practical notion of writing down to the parson of the
church at Deptford to see if by any chance a record of
Marlowe's burial had been preserved there.
http://www.archive.org/stream/deathofchristoph008072mbp/deathofchristoph008072mbp_djvu.txt
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MQ
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Although he had written well-known plays???
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But in 1820
> James Broughton, the literary antiquary, on ruminat-
> ing Vaughan's detailed account of the matter, conceived
> the practical notion of writing down to the parson of the
> church at Deptford to see if by any chance a record of
> Marlowe's burial had been preserved there.
>
> http://www.archive.org/stream/deathofchristoph008072mbp/deathofchrist...
Lyra
>
> * * *
>
> > The close family link of the Vaughans of Golden Grove, and the Tudor
> > royal family.
>
> * * *
While writing on this topic,
I'm sending in the link from
Sir William Lower,
astronomer in Wales, friend of Thomas Hariot,
to the Mary Boleyn and William Cary family.
(aunt and uncle to the Queen,
and the Lord Chamberlain, Henry Carey, is their son)
`````````
Henry Carey's sister Mary is the mother of
Lettice Knolles,
Lettice is the mother of Dorothy Devereux,
Dorothy is the mother of Penelope Perrott,
wife of Sir William Lower.
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Some details follow...
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Lettice KNOLLES
Lettice (Letitia) (Knowlis) KNOLLYS
................................................................................
Birth: 1540
Of Wanstead, Warwick, England
Death: 25 Dec 1634
Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England
Burial:
Collegiate Church, Warwick, Warwichshire, England
................................................................................
Father: Francis KNOLLYS (KNOWLES)
Mother: Mary (Catherine) CAREY (CARY)
................................................................................
m. Walter DEVEREAUX
Marriage: Abt 1564
Of Nethwood, Herefordshire, England
m. Christopher BLOUNT
Marriage: 1589
Berkshire, England
m. Robert DUDLEY
Marriage: 21 Sep 1577/1578
Wanstead, Warwickshire, England
................................................................................
................................................................................
Mary (Catherine) CAREY (CARY)
Birth: Abt 1518
Of Chilton Folist, Wiltshire, England
Christening: 1522
Death: 15 Aug 1568
England
Father: William CAREY (CARY)
Mother: Mary BOLEYN (BULLYN)
m. Francis KNOLLYS (KNOWLES)
Marriage: Abt 1539
Hampshire, England ?
................................................................................
................................................................................
Walter DEVEREAUX
................................................................................
Birth: 1 Sep 1539
Devereux Castle, Carmarthenshire, Wales, Wales
Death: 22 Sep 1576
Dublin Castle, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Burial:
Caermarilen, In South Wales, South Wales
................................................................................
................................................................................
William LOWER
................................................................................
Birth: Abt 1582
Of St Winnow, Cornwall, England
Death: 12 Apr 1615
................................................................................
Father: Thomas LOWER
Mother: Johanna Or Jane RESKYMER
................................................................................
m. Penelope PERROT
Marriage: Abt 1607 1611 Aug 13 Bef
................................................................................
................................................................................
Penelope PERROT
................................................................................
Birth: Abt 1590
Of Droxbourne, Hertfordshire, England
................................................................................
Father: Thomas PERROT
Mother: Dorothy DEVEREUX
................................................................................
m. Robert NAUNTON
Marriage: 1619
Of Leatherington, Suffolk, England
m. William LOWER
Marriage: Abt 1607 1611 Aug 13 Bef
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> http://www.archive.org/stream/deathofchristoph008072mbp/deathofchrist...
>
> ```````````````````
>
> > Also, there's a link from the V.s of G. G.
>
> > to the families in the
>
> > "Did Shakespeare visit Wales (and Whitney on Wye)?"
>
> > mystery.
>
> > For more on this, see my blog on the topic,
>
> >http://shakespeares-welsh-cave.blogspot.com/
>
> ````````````````````````````
>
>
>
> > > The following post
> > > first sent in today
> > > as a post in the thread
>
> > > "Thomas Harriot beat Galileo by nearly six months... Maths students
> > > can also thank him for giving us modern algebra . . . and the potato!"
>
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/bro...- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Lyra
> > * * *
>
> > > The close family link of the Vaughans of Golden Grove, and the Tudor
> > > royal family.
* * *
> While writing on this topic,
I'm sending the link of the Devereux family to
Carmarthenshire, Wales.
(the location of
the Vaughans of Golden Grove)
* * *
(quote)
THE year 1976 marks the fourth centenary
of the death of Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex,
who died on 22nd September, 1576.
Walter Devereux was born, probably in 1541,
in Carmarthen castle,
the elder son of Sir Richard Devereux (Mayor of Carmarthen in 1536)
and Dorothy,
daughter of George Hastings, first Earl of Huntingdon.
The family, descended from Robert D'Evreux, a companion of William the
Conqueror,
came into the possession of large estates in Wales,
where during the second half of the sixteenth century they had a
principal seat at Lamphey, in Pembrokeshire,
following the grant of the alienated episcopal manor by Henry VIII in
1547,
to which was added a large share of the confiscated lands of Sir Rhys
ap Gruffydd, son of Sir Rhys ap Thomas.
Sir Richard Devereux died before his father, Walter Devereux, Viscount
Hereford, whose death in 1558 resulted in the passing of the title to
Walter Devereux, the subject of this article.
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> I'm sending in the link from
> Sir William Lower,
> astronomer in Wales, friend of Thomas Hariot,
>
> to the Mary Boleyn and William Cary family.
>
> (aunt and uncle to the Queen,
> and the Lord Chamberlain, Henry Carey, is their son)
>
> `````````
>
> Henry Carey's sister Mary is the mother of
> Lettice Knolles,
>
> Lettice is the mother of Dorothy Devereux,
>
> Dorothy is the mother of Penelope Perrott,
>
> wife of Sir William Lower.
>
> ```````````````````
>
> Some details follow...
>
> `````````
>
> Lettice KNOLLES
>
> Lettice (Letitia) (Knowlis) KNOLLYS
>
> ................................................................................
>
> Birth: 1540
> Of Wanstead, Warwick, England
>
> Death: 25 Dec 1634
> Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England
>
> Burial:
> Collegiate Church, Warwick, Warwichshire, England
>
> ................................................................................
>
> Father: Francis KNOLLYS (KNOWLES)
>
> Mother: Mary (Catherine) CAREY (CARY)
>
> ................................................................................
>
> m. Walter DEVEREAUX
> Marriage: Abt 1564
> Of Nethwood, Herefordshire, England
>
> m. Christopher BLOUNT
> Marriage: 1589
> Berkshire, England
>
> m. Robert DUDLEY
> Marriage: 21 Sep 1577/1578
> Wanstead, Warwickshire, England
>
> ................................................................................
>
> ................................................................................
>
> Mary (Catherine) CAREY (CARY)
>
> Birth: Abt 1518
> Of Chilton Folist, Wiltshire, England
> Christening: 1522
>
> Death: 15 Aug 1568
> England
>
> Father: William CAREY (CARY)
>
> Mother: Mary BOLEYN (BULLYN)
>
> m. Francis KNOLLYS (KNOWLES)
> Marriage: Abt 1539
> Hampshire, England ?
>
> ................................................................................
>
> ................................................................................
>
> Walter DEVEREAUX
>
> ................................................................................
>
> Birth: 1 Sep 1539
> Devereux Castle, Carmarthenshire, Wales, Wales
>
> Death: 22 Sep 1576
> Dublin Castle, Carmarthenshire, Wales
> Burial:
> Caermarilen, In South Wales, South Wales
>
> ................................................................................
>
> ................................................................................
>
> William LOWER
>
> ................................................................................
>
> Birth: Abt 1582
> Of St Winnow, Cornwall, England
>
> Death: 12 Apr 1615
>
> ................................................................................
>
> Father: Thomas LOWER
>
> Mother: Johanna Or Jane RESKYMER
>
> ................................................................................
>
> m. Penelope PERROT
>
> Marriage: Abt 1607 1611 Aug 13 Bef
>
> ................................................................................
>
> ................................................................................
>
> Penelope PERROT
>
> ................................................................................
>
> Birth: Abt 1590
> Of Droxbourne, Hertfordshire, England
>
> ................................................................................
>
> Father: Thomas PERROT
>
> Mother: Dorothy DEVEREUX
>
> ................................................................................
Lyra
> > > * * *
> > > > The close family link of the Vaughans of Golden Grove, and the Tudor
> > > > royal family.
* * *
>
> > While writing on this topic,
>
> I'm sending the link of the Devereux family to
>
> Carmarthenshire, Wales.
(quote)
in Carmarthen castle,
> http://carmarthenshirehistorian.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Historian/AnAd...
Lyra
* * *
> > > > > The close family link of the Vaughans of Golden Grove, and the Tudor
> > > > > royal family.
* * *
Some Vaughan data...
(quote)
Select Vaughan Surname Genealogy
The surname Vaughan comes from the Welsh fychan, itself a mutant of
hychan meaning little or small. It could be added to a family name,
meaning junior, and would apply to a son who had the same name as his
father. For example. the Welsh patriot who was captured by the
English and executed in Llandovery in 1401 was styled as Llywelyn ap
Gruffydd fychan, Alternatively, Fychan might simply have developed as
a nickname.
Fychan could pass from father to son in the Welsh patronymical style.
Thus the son of Dafydd Fychan ap Daffyd was Gruffydd ap Dafydd
Fychan. However, his son was born at a time when surnames in the
English style were starting to get used and he was known simply as
Hugh Fychan.
The earliest example of Fychan as a surname was probably Rhosier
Fychan who fought and died at Agincourt in 1415 (when Gryffydd of the
same name was said to have saved the life of King Harry in the
battle). Rhosier's sons assumed the Fychan name. Sometime later in
the century the Welsh Fychan changed in spelling to the English
Vaughan.
Select Vaughan Resources on The Internet
Vaughan Genealogy. Vaughan genealogy and links.
Welsh Biography Online. Search - Vaughan.
Vaughan Vaughn Resource Group. Vaughan/Vaughn resources
Vaughan/Gnarini Genealogy Project. Vaughan forum website.
Vaughan Pioneers. Websites on Rootsweb freepages/V - Vaughan
pioneers.
Select Vaughan Ancestry
Wales. There were various Vaughan landed gentry in mid-Wales,
starting with the Vaughans of Tretower near Crickhowell. Sir Roger
Vaughan took over the property in 1450 and it stayed with his family
for the next three hundred years. The Vaughans at Trawsgoed near
Aberstwyth were equally long-standing. This family really established
itself in the seventeenth century when Sir John Vaughan was made Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas by Charles II. They remained locally
powerful and influential despite their spendthrift habits in the
eighteenth century. A third Vaughan family can be found at Hengwrt
near Dolgellau in Gwynneth from Elizabethan times. They included the
noted antiquarian Robert Vaughan. One of these Vaughans later
emigrated with the Quakers to Pennsylvania.
In addtion to the gentry families, the Vaughan name can also be found
in mid-Powys church records in Llanerfyl and Llanfylllin from the
1600's.
In 1485, a Welsh prince, Owen Tudor, had captured the throne of
England by his victory at the Battle of Bosworth Field. In his wake
came Hugh Vaughan who became wealthy through this royal connection.
His son John subsequently established the family estate at Golden
Grove near Carmarthen in South Wales. From this family came Walter
Vaughan, one of the early developers of the town of Llanelli, and
various courtiers and politicians on the Royalist side in the
seventeenth century.
A Vaughan family, originally from Gloucestershire, ran an iron forge
at Whitchurch near Cardiff from the 1700's for five generations. More
Vaughans were to be found in Glamorgan in the nineteenth century as
industrialization, based on coal and iron, developed.
England. Welsh names extended across the border into England from an
early time. The 1327 Subsidy Rolls for Shropshire showed that one in
five names recorded there was Welsh, including a Cardogan Vaughan.
There were Vaughan gentry families at Courtfield in Herefordshire and
Ruardean in Gloucestershire in Elizabethan times. Many of these
Vaughans were staunch Catholics who paid for their allegience at
times. In the nineteenth century, Roger Bede Vaughan from this family
became Archbishop in Sydney in Australia and Herbert Vaughan, in 1892,
Archbishop of Westminster.
Ireland. Protestant Vaughans came to Ireland with the Protestant land-
grab in the 1600's. The Carmarthen Vaughans established themselves in
Donegal. George Vaughan, governor of Donegal, built Buncrana castle
in 1718. The Vaughan name has remained in Donegal, particularly in
Ballyshannon.
From Ireland in the 1750's came Samuel Vaughan, who became rich as a
merchant in London and owned sugar plantations in Jamaica. One son
emigrated to Hallowell in Maine, another, also a merchant, lost most
of his money.
A Vaughan family lived on Quilly Road in Dromore in County Down.
There has been some suggestion that their name might have formed the
basis for the popular Irish folk song, Polly Vaughn. The song goes
roughly as follows:
A man called Johnny Randle goes hunting for birds.
He sees something white in the bushes.
Thinking that it is a swan, he shoots.
To his horror, he has killed his true love,
Polly Vaughn, sheltering from the rain.
America. There were some early Vaughan immigrants into New England,
such as John and Gillian Vaughan recorded in 1638 in Newport, Rhode
Island. But more came via Virginia. Rebecca Vaughan's house, built
in 1795, still stands in Courtland, SE Virginia. She herself was
killed in the 1831 slave insurgency.
From Virginia, we find Vaughan/Vaughn families moving to Tennessee,
North Carolina, and Montgomery, Alabama. Other Vaughans/Vaughns
pushed inland. William and Fereby Vaughan got to NW Arkansas in the
1820's (where there is a Vaughan valley today), John Vaughn to
Jefferson County, Illinois and Amos and Susan Vaughn to Iowa (then
part of Wisconsin territory) in the 1830's. Colonel Alfred Vaughan
was an Indian agent based in St. Louis in the 1850's.
The Vaughn name also crops up in Missouri. Elisha and Patsy Vaughan
reached there in the 1820's. Cornelius Vaughn was a slave owner in
Missouri in the years prior to the Civil War. After the war, he and
his family departed for Spokane in Washington. Victor Vaughan, who
later became Dean of the Medical School at Michigan University,
recorded his memories of slavery and growing up on a farm in Missouri
in his 1926 book, A Doctor's Memories.
South Africa. Lieutenant Colonel Edward Vaughan came to Cape Colony
with the British troops in the 1820's. He died in Cape Town in 1833
and there is a commemmorative plaque to him in St. George's
Cathedral. More Vaughans arrived in the 1850's. Cecil Vaughan was a
magistrate in the Eastern Cape in the late 1800's. His young daughter
wrote a diary of her daily life at the time of the Boer War. The
Diary of Iris Vaughan was lost but rediscovered in the 1950's and
attracted great interest on its publication.
Select Vaughan Miscellany
If you would like to read more, click on the miscellany page for
further stories and accounts:
Vaughan Miscellany
Select Vaughan Names
Sir Roger Vaughan was said to be the richest commoner in Wales when he
acquired Tretower castle in 1450.
Henry and Thomas Vaughan were twin brothers from the Tretower family
who grew up in Brecon in the 1630's. Henry became a metaphysical
poet, Thomas an alchemist.
Sir John Vaughan was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the reign of
Charles II.
Herbert Cardinal Vaughan was appointed Archbishop of Westminster in
1892. His two brothers, Bernard and John Stephen, were also prominent
Catholic clergymen.
Arky Vaughan, born in rural Arkansas, was the premier baseball
shortstop of the 1930's and was later inducted into baseball's Hall of
Fame.
Sarah Vaughan made her breakthrough as a jazz singer in 1943. He
family came from Virginia and she grew up in Newark.
Michael Vaughan is the present captain of the English cricket team.
Select Vaughans Today
22,000 in the UK (most numerous in Glamorgan)
12,000 in America (most numerous in Virginia)
13,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Australia)
http://www.selectsurnames.com/vaughan.html
> > > While writing on this topic,
>
> > I'm sending the link of the Devereux family to
>
> > Carmarthenshire, Wales.
>
> (quote)
>
> THE year 1976 marks the fourth centenary
> of the death of Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex,
> who died on 22nd September, 1576.
>
> Walter Devereux was born, probably in 1541,
>
> in Carmarthen castle,
>
> the elder son of Sir Richard Devereux (Mayor of Carmarthen in 1536)
> and Dorothy,
> daughter of George Hastings, first Earl of Huntingdon.
>
> The family, descended from Robert D'Evreux, a companion of William the
> Conqueror,
> came into the possession of large estates in Wales,
>
> where during the second half of the sixteenth century they had a
> principal seat at Lamphey, in Pembrokeshire, following the grant of
> the alienated episcopal manor by Henry VIII in 1547, to which was
> added a large share of the confiscated lands of Sir Rhys ap Gruffydd,
> son of Sir Rhys ap Thomas.
>
> Sir Richard Devereux died before his father, Walter Devereux, Viscount
> Hereford, whose death in 1558 resulted in the passing of the title to
> Walter Devereux, the subject of this article.
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> http://carmarthenshirehistorian.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Historian/AnAd...