On this eve of the election, I thought I’d post about yet another DNA match to our Vaughans.
The Vaughan DNA site is posting a new match to our Vaughans — 35 out of 37 and the two mismatches are only one point away each. Kit #131081 Jesse Lee Vaughan Jr. tested, he descends from a Edmund Vaughan, who lived in Goochland, Cumberland and Powhatten Counties in VA from 1771 to 1783. He died June 1796 in Scott County, KY and was married to Sally Neville.
This is a seemingly unrelated line, and more and more we are getting close, non-related matches. In fact our ‘group’ of matches is tied with another ‘group’ of Vaughan matches for the most — each 13 matches. It looks like our Vaughans and this other set of Vaughans are the two main branches of Vaughans. That means simply that William and John descended from one of two major families of Vaughans that came to the USA. Now if we can only find out how they connect to British and Welsh Vaughans.
I suspect that we may be able, one day, to tie our Vaughans in to a Welsh or British line of Vaughans. Each seemingly unrelated find is like a piece of a puzzle and it will lead us one day to our Vaughan ancestors.
Eddie Davis
I have a George Vaughan in 1758 in Hanover & Louisa counties as a witness to a land indenture between John Mcgeorge and David Shelton. The Freeman & Holland were there at the time. I wonder if this a connection. I have a Parrish & Vaughan marring in Goochland, Va. M
I found Vaughan’s in the early Colonial Ct. records, Tidewarters early Original
shires of Va. 1634, John Vaughan, Grace Vaughan of Occahannock, 1656, sister of Stephen Charlton and mother of John Walton, took her third husband in 1658 Lieut. Col. Thomas Lambert of Norfolk County
Probably no connection but interesting the early dates and change of husbands. Marian
Oh ! I, also found as Richard Vaughan & Richard Bennett on the same page yr. 1646, Stephen Carlton on same page. Do you have a Parker family? They are there too and on same page of book. Oh ! A John Savage. It says Mr. Charlton has a dau. Bridgett and his brother is Richard Vaughan. Very interesting but probably not the same Marian