Any connections with VAUGHANS of Bristol (General)

by mellychesnel, Sunday, February 17, 2008, 00:36 (6205 days ago)

My great great grandfather Philip Vaughan was born in the parish of St philip and St jacob in Bristol and shows up on the 1841 census as 1 year old living with his mother Sarah Vaughan and Ann Vaughan in Little Ann St. Ann is age 50 to 54 and was born in Gloucestershire, Sarah is given in the 1851 census as being a widow with son Philip and daughter Sarah Ann Vaughan age 5 and born in Bristol about 1819.

Philip's wedding certificate gives his father's name as George (occupation - painter/plasterer), but I can find no record of him in the census, and I couldn't find baptismal records for Philip Vaughan in Holy Trinty Church records when I looked for his date of birth 24.8.1839 (as given on marriage certificate) By deduction George must have been born before 1824 and died between 1845 and 1851.

In the 1841 census for Little Ann St. there is a Betsy Vaughan (mother-in-law? to Samual Britton, an agricultural labourer)born about 1790 and a Thomas Vaughan(occupation – smith?) born about 1830, possibly in Whitecroft.
In the 1851 census for the parish of St philip there is also the family of William Vaughan who came fron Tiddenham. In my family there is a rumor that either George or Philip vaughan was an illegitimate child of the Vaughans from Courtfield or Ruardean. I would be interested to hear from anyone who knows of any connection between the Vaughans living in St Philips, Bristol in the early 19th century and Vaughans originating in the FoD

You can contact me at mjchesnel@ornamentation.fr.

Thank you
melanie chesnel(née Vaughan)