Any connections with VAUGHANS of Bristol (General)

by mellychesnel, Sunday, February 17, 2008, 19:47 (6130 days ago) @ mellychesnel

I've ordered a copy of the Philip Vaughan's birth certificate but whilst I'm waiting for it to arrive here in France I've had the following thought on which you might like to comment.
My grandmother paid a professional, in the late 60's I believe, to chase up the family records. He got as far as Philip son of George and said he could go no further because Philip's baptismal records were lost in WWII when the church in which they were kept was bombed! My grandmother left it at that and in the late 70's when I took up the quest I went to the records office in Bristol and looked up the baptismal records for Holy Trinity (which did exist!) for the period covering a year before his birth to more than 2 years after his birth and could find nothing. I was working on the principal that he would be C of E and therefore baptized in his local parish church shortly after his birth. It has just occurred to me that he may have been from catholic or non-conformist stock do you know the confession of the Vaughan families in Tiddenham and Whitecroft at this time?
With regard to George Vaughan, I've looked at the 1841 census for Tiddenham and son George is no longer living with his parents so it is possible that he was Sarah's husband, we shall have to wait and see what the birth certificate says,

yours
melanie