I am not clear about how to get more information. It seems that in the
records two Vaughan families were put together..too many William Vaughans! so that
in the Bishops Transcripts which my father copied and which I notice have
also been recorded in other people's genealogies that our William , his twin
brothers Thomas and Christopher christened in April 1808 are put together with
other Vaughans born in Merthyr Tydfil which include Theophilus, Ann and two James
(one having died in infancy)..When I was in Cardiff I got copies of the
recorded christenings of William chr. June 1799 and Thomas and Christopher born to
William and Anne Jones Vaughan in Merthyr Tydfil. Was anything recorded
elsewhere than in this list of christenings for the church in Merthyr? I guess I
'm wondering if there was some official original baptismal record that might
be kept somewhere else than in the office in Cardiff? Would there be more
information on it?
I'm very ignorant of how to proceed on trying to decipher the records and
separate out the two Vaughan families that have gotten mixed. I know the father
William died in a mining accident in 1823..He worked at Crawshays. Would
there be a list of mine workers? Would there be a record of where people who
worked in the mines lived? Also, Thomas Vaughan was banished along with Lewis
Lewis and two others to Australia for their part in the Merthyr Uprising while Dic
Penderyn was hung...Would there be any kind of personal records on people
arrested during the Uprising in 1831?
Thank you for any help!
Kathy
P.S. We do have a record of William Vaughan marrying Elizabeth Lovett in
1823 in Llanbedr Painscastle. It says that he is of the Parish. DId that mean
that he was born there? or that his family was from there?