Following the recent VAUGHAN pedigree discussions on various lists I thought
I would share the following info I have collected over some time and end
with a plea for help with my VAUGHANs.
There is a page at
http://www.gbso.net/actor/dlfiles.htm which has all kinds
of downloadable gedcoms including one called "Welsh Families" which purports
to connect the VAUGHANs all the way back to King Priam of Troy. This is
quite interesting but is highly speculative and probably produced by
connecting up a lot of the known genealogies of Royal houses. The Victorians
were obsessed with this and went to great lengths to map out these lineages.
How genuine they are is anyone's guess when you go this far back. Henry of
Monmouth's History of England is probably the source for much of this.
The following was told to me by another VAUGHAN researcher who is not on
this list I believe. "There is also an article on Welsh Pedigrees, on
Vaughan, written by Henry Vaughan in 1889 and published in Y Cymmrodor
Volume X, pages 72-156. I have not seen it though. Y Cymmrodor is the
magazine of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. It seems to have been
called Transactions of the Hon. Soc etc in more recent years. It is a
periodical, printed in London, I think yearly. I don't know if it is still
produced.
"If you find a source there are also a whole series of articles spread over
about 4 volumes in the same journal: -
1963 Part 1 pp96-145 & Part pp223-250 (Earls of Carbery),
1964 Part 2 pp167-221(Torycoed and Golden Grove) and
1966 Part 1 pp96-145 (Earls of Carbery)
on the Vaughans of Golden Grove. They were a big grouping in
Carmarthenshire. There are a few family trees for 16th -18th century for
them within these articles."
There - hope that helps - I have to get my hands on some of this material
and look at it one day.
In the meantime, if anyone can help me with my William VAUGHAN, born
somewhere in Radnorshire 1873, married Mary LEWIS in Goytre, Monmouth 13
May, 1826 and farmed at "Duffryn" a.k.a. "The Wern Farm" on the road
from
Penpellenny to Goytrey Hall just west of Goetre (I managed to use 3 of the
many spellings of Goitre - oops 4 - in the same sentence!!) - died 1872....
Cheers
Hugh