JOHN VAUGHAN 1st Yoeman of Bathwick, Somerset
DoB unknown but about 1690. Until further research is done he is only noted as
the father of James Vaughan who was born in 1733 and is recorded as the father
of his son James on James entering Colston School Bristol aged
10 in 1743 with a grant from the Colston charitable fund. A yeoman in those
days was a person who owned rural property like a farmer.
JAMES VAUGHAN
1st Merchant ships officer Born 1733 wife unknown. He entered Colston
School aged 10 in 1743 and apprenticed as a mariner to ship owner Mathiuas
WHELAN ( mariner) for seven years. Apprenticeship paid as a gift of Edward
Colston in 1750.
Colston
was a major benefactor in the city of Bristol at the time. A very rich man (
see web site of Colston of Bristol) who made a fortune out of slavery and
donated heavily to local ( Bristol) charities especially the school which he
founded. We have a copy of the apprenticeship indentures signed by James
Vaughan which states his 7 year apprentiship was paid for as “a Gift of
Colston”. Little is known of MathiusWhelan and his ships at this time. It is
being researched but from internet searches it seems several Whelans were
shipowners over a 100 year period from about 1740 to about 1850 and there is
mention of Whelan in the Newfoundland settlement archives and a connection with
Waterford. It is an Irish name
JAMES VAUGHAN assumed
descendant Commissioned Lieutenant RN on board HMS ANSON 1780 being researched
Full details of his pre commissioning sea career available and details of HMS
Anson and her voyages in Wikipedia.
JAMES VAUGHAN Master Mariner ( assumed
descendant ) unproven
DoB estimated One marriage
possibility1753-1773. Married ( Evidence by
Banns notice) 1792 at St James Bristol to Ann George Another marriage
possibility Ann Mintorn. Corlk 1808
Most likely ancestor James Vaughan mariner was
found living at 14 Culver Street
Bristol in 1814-1815 according to the Trade Directories. That street adjoins
Trenchard Street where a James Vaughan mariner lived at the time of his
marriage to Ann George so it is assumed the couple moved to a new address.
We have a number of mariners in the family
possibly a James and a John who were brothers which has led to some confusion.
Later a “ John “ possible a misprint for “James”
Vaughan and wife Ann baptised a son John on 2 October 1814 at the Parish of St
Augustine the Less Bristol and James was described as a Mariner living at
Trenchard St ( Avon or Clifton ) Bristol at the time.
The only one child known for certain is John Mintorn but almost
certainly he had others as well. Its possible that “Mintorn” was the surname of
a Vaughan wife. A number of Mintorns were dwelling in and around Bristol at
that time including John Mintorn was
alive and operating a Revolving Library and Bookshop at Bristol in 1790 who
could have been an in-law of some kind no evidence available yet ! A William
Henry Mintorn was First Mate of the
ship Thomas Lauri in the mid 1800 and had family at Bristol
1841 Bristol Census found
This
family our ancestors living at Avon
Crescent , Bedminister
Ann VAUGHAN aged 50 Independent means
John Vaughan aged 20 carpenter
William VAUGHAN aged 19 ship’s carpenter
Emma VAUGHAN aged 20 Independent
The ages given at this time tend to be rounded
off so the candidates listed were probably a bit older or younger than the ages
given
JOHN MINTORN VAUGHAN 1st - EMMA JONES John
was baptised about 1819 maybe at
Bristol. Date of death 1854 at Bombay, India. He was a man of many parts His occupations were variously architect,
carpenter, builder and later Marine Engineer with P and O Line. He and his
mother Ann Vaughan and two siblings Emma and William are recorded in the 1841
Bristol Census. John married EMMA JONES of Bedminster 20th March 1845
Parish Church Bedminster. Emma was the daughter of Thomas Jones Accountant of
Bedminister Bristol. They lived at 80
Herman Terrace Bristol. From 1846 to 1847 John held Pre-Registration Deeds for
33 Worrall Rd, Clifton a place he had possibly designed and was building
commercially. Children John Mintorn ; Thomas Walter. William
Henry; and Frances Edmund. John Mintorn and family lived at Southampton from
about 1848 until at least 1858 , the family appear on the 1851 Census at Herman
St Terrace, St Marys Southampton then and he was described as a carpenter and
joiner
A some period shortly after that in the early
1850s he joined P and O as an “ engineer ”
and shipped out of Southampton with P and O Line . A search of P and O
Line records ( P and O/88/3 the death Book ) an entry for John Vaughan Fourth Engineer in the ship Norna who was
drowned on 29 January 1854, the body
was not found. As his death took place between the end of one voyage ( 19 January from Southampton and the
beginning of the next 1 February to
Hong Kong This incident is recorded by
the British Consulate at Bangkok Vol 2 page 913 in Consular deaths
register as occurring on 29 Januay 1854. The registers of Wages and
effect of Deceased Seamen has a reference to
John Vaughan serving on the Norna who was engaged ( signed on ) on 14
May 1853 was drowned at Bombay on 29 January 1854 .
The Bombay Gazette records his death as having
occurred at about 10.30 pm when he fell from the ship’s gangway after returning
on board with some shipmates after a run ashore. His body was not found There
is apparently no other record of the event in Nautical reports.
Emma was a widow when she and the children were
then living at St James Bristol according to the 1861 Bristol census. She
described her late husband as a deceased P and O Engineer.
The timing of this death and the circumstances
certainly fit the profile and indicate a very brief seagoing career
JOHN MINTORN VAUGHAN 2nd- Eliza Davies John
was christened on 27/4/1846 April and probably born at 115 Maudlin Street,
Parish of St Michael, Bristol. He was Registered at Saint Augustus sub district
Bristol on 05 May 1846 christened 24 May 1846 at St Michaels Bristol
Gloucester. John then a
greengrocer at 27 Cumberland
Street in 1868, married Eliza
Davies a dressmaker who was born at Marlybone London about 1848
, at Avon, Bristol, Gloucestershire in
1876 They were living at 27 Cumberland
Street Bristol. By 1891 his occupation
was Yardsman ( Glass ) and later Groom- Head Stableman and Caretaker living
at at 26 St Cutbert St, St Mary’s ,
Paddington He died aged 52 in 1899. Probably at Avon as death is recorded
Bristol Gloucester. Children William James 1873; John Mintorn 1877; Arthur Frances Valentine 1882 ( named
after John’s brother in law Arthur Davies); Emma Louise 1883.
ARTHUR FRANCES VALENTINE VAUGHAN- ADA MATILDA
CROCKER Arthur
(Pop) was born 1882 , 7 Pembroke Street, Parish of St Paul’s ,Bristol Ada Matilda Crocker was presumably
born 1877at Christchurch, Hampshire
near Southampton where we believe they
were married at St Clements Bournemouth, Hampshire .
In 1891 he lived with his uncle Arthur J Davies at 7 Salisbury Road ,
Christchurch, Bournemouth and later in 1901
Census were to be found at 117 Dove Street, Bristol. Working for another uncle
George F Davies at 117 Dove Street Bristol
Arthur seems to have been brought up by his
uncle Arthur J Davis at least from 7
years of age until 19 years of age along with his big brother John Mintorn 3rd
while the other two siblings went to Paddington with their father John Mintorn
2nd
Arthur later lived with and worked as a housepainter for his uncle George
Davies when he was 19 in 1901 George J. Davies was a Glass Writer and house decorator of 117 Dove Street Bristol
They married at
Bournemouth in all probability .
Arthur’s (Pop) occupation at 19 years of age was house painterHe served
in WW1 both in India and France and attained the rank of Sergeant with the Hampshire regiment his army number
306183. An old sepia photograph of him complete with pitc h helmet shows him
seated surrounded by Indian Army retainers .Later after the war he was
a colonial officer in Gambia between the Wars, a shop owner at Swanage and worked
for the Jersey Electric Company at St Helier dwelling at 1 Park Place, St
Helier at that time before and during the German occupation of Jersey in
WW2 He was an office holder in a St
Helier Royal Antideluverian Order of the Buffelo’s Lodge . Arthur and Ivy’s
children were. Arthur Mintorn Vaughan 27/7/1908 ; Ivy Vaughan;
Roy Cyril Vaughan born 1909 , Swanage. England (died 26 Aug 1989 Lismore NSW, Australia, Married Winifred du Hamel, Two sons Edward Paul Vaughan and Antony Vaughan)
Date Arthur’s of death approx 1954 at St Helier,
Jersey, Channel Islands
ARTHUR (PAUL) MINTORN VAUGHAN- PHOEBE HANNAH
WILLIAMS Arthur ( Paul) was born 27/07/1906 at 88
Charmister Road, Bournmouth. Phoebe was born 9/3/1918 at the New Inn Bettews,
Montgomeryshire Wales. He married Phoebe Hannah Williams ( she took her two
Christian names from her father Stephen William’s sisters ) at Christ Church
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris 15/8/37
Died Hamilton New Zealand 1976
Occupation various Regular soldier Royal Artillery with India service,
electrical engineer Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers WW2 with USA
Posting completing his military service as a Staff Sergeant in the Royal
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Later in civilian life and commercial
artist in post war years in St Helier Jersey Channel Islands and then became a
designer draughtsman after moving to Littlewick Green Maidenhead Berkshire and
Marlow Buckinghamshire in the 1950’s. Children Peter Mintorn 1/5/1939 Roydyn
( Roy ) Paul 29/3/1942; Rodney Francis 24/6/1947. The family
migrated to New Zealand in 1964. Paul ( Arthur), Phoebe , sons Peter and Rodney
shipped out of Tilbury London in the New Zealand Shipping Company cargo
passenger ship Remuera, and Roy, a professional mariner joined the Union Steam
Ship Company Ltd of NZ as a Deck Officer and shipped out in the Waitaki as
Fourth Officer ,arriving at Wellington NZ in June 1964
Notes on the Name Mintorn
Our best sources to date suggest the name
“MINTORN” is a derivative of “ MYND TON “ a person who lived on or near the
Long MYND Mountain in Shropshire m near the Welsh border.
A link between the Vaughan and Mintorn families
is likely owing to the recurrence of “ Mintorn” as a Christian name through
successive Vaughan generations A number of “ Mintorns” were living at Bristol
about the same time No link has yet to be established
One John Mintorn of Bristol was a Bookseller in
the 1790’s who married a Jane Fisher, may be related as that family name is
extremely rare and it may be more than
a coincidence that James Vaughan and
John Mintorn who were living at Bristol at the same time and that two
generations of Vaughans after James had sons
named John and one of the at least had the middle name of Mintorn
Another Edward Mintorn and wife Eliza was living
at Bedminister Bristol also in the
early part of the 1800s.
One interesting fact is a William Henry Mintorn
First mate of the ship Thomas Lauri left a will in 20 April
1832 to his widow Eliza Mintorn at
Bristol. He could have been at sea on the same ship(s) as James Vaughan and
perhaps a friend
James’
son John Mintorn Vaughan is the first Vaughan to have “ Mintorn “ in his name
that we know of.
Arthur Frances Valentine Vaughan was brought up
by Davies uncles who were his mother’s brothers. Also we do not have any detail of William Mintorn’s children if
any More room here for further research , John Mintorn Vaughan named one of his
son’s William ! Does that indicate his wife made have had some blood tie with William Henry Mintorn or perhaps named after
a shipmate friend ?
Another Angle on the Vaughans and Mintorns
Another angle on the Mintorn is it was first found in Dorset being the name of a
prominent Manorial Lord during the Middle Ages Some descendants are believed to
have had the Irish Country of Munster named after them Various variations of
the name such as Minton, Minturn,
Mintorn. And Minterne are accepted as coming form one source which as mentioned
earlier could be from Myndtown or Minton in Shropshire
There is some room to speculate on an Irish
connection both for the Mintorn’s and the Vaughan’s as Vaughan is also a very
common Irish name and the small Galway town of Ballyvaughan named after them.
Consider one James Vaughan the Irishman
A James Vaughan married Anne Mintorn in the Diocese of Cork and
Ross, County Cork, Ireland in 1807 ( Ancestry.com ) research . This is
fascinating fact but seems to be an unlikely ancestor if the James Vaughan who
married Ann George at Bristol and seems to be the mariner domiciled later at
Trenchard Street, Bristol is the father of the proven ancestor John Vaughan
circa Bristol 1814 to 1819. If the Irishman James Vaughan’s occupation could be
proved to be that of a mariner it could remotely put him in the frame
Notes
Recent work by Anna Kay of Bristol
Anna was asked to check out as much information
as possible about our earliest known ancestor great grandfather x 3 James
Vaughan a master mariner. And in the process apprenticeship indentures for
James VAUGHAN for a sea career, dated 12 February 1750 which may either refer
to James the Master Mariner we know about or else his father or an uncle as if
it is our James he would have been in his mid 50’s when he wed Ann George.
On 31 October 2005,we discovered that there were
2 Ann Vaughans alive living with families at Bristol at the time of the 1841
Bristol Census which is the earliest certain record of our ancestors.
Previously we had looked at another Ann Vaughan in a later Bristol census who
was not an ancestor. The fact that there were two Ann Vaughan’s living at
Bristol at the same period still causes some confusion regarding earlier
ancestors. Our Ann Vaughan was the wife of
Master Mariner James Vaughan.
We have yet to firmly establish which James
Vaughan was our ancestor and peg his birth and marriage details to factual
conclusion, and there remains the difficulty of establishing who his wife was
as we have at least two candidates in mind !
Those that stand out are Ann George of Bristol
and Ann Sull of Bedminister, Bristol .About the same time they married a James
or John Vaughan. The doubt over James and John, is created in later birth
records where it appears a James Vaughan may have been wrongly described as
John. Both gave birth to children who have some of the same names as our known
ancestors, about the same time in Bristol.
This is important as we have no concrete leads
on James Vaughan neither the Bristol census nor the 1841 Census include James
Vaughan just Ann Vaughan and her son our great grandfather x 2 John Mintorn
Vaughan and siblings William and Emma Vaughan together, do not include James Vaughan. It describes Ann as having
Independent Means which would seem to indicate she was a widow. The previous
mention of James Vaughan on son John Vaughan’s wedding certificate in 1845 was
probably written in by the registrar of marriage.
We can
assume that James must have died before 1841 and a search is now being made of
wills to establish if he left a will to his wife Ann. That should throw light
on him and his background and you must treat
the first part of this history
up to John and Emma’s Wedding in 1845 with a touch of speculation based
on interesting but not conclusive evidence of possible ancestors.
The 1841 Bristol census also shows that Ann
Vaughan and family were born “out of County” That is not in Somerset. It could
be Clifton near Bristol as Clifton is in Gloucestershire or it could be
anywhere else in Britain.
So we are left with gaps and more questions for
the time being
Introduction
In commencing this study, aided by reputable
British genealogists and internet sites, etc there was no knowledge of any
ancestors before Arthur Frances
Valentine VAUGHAN. (the author Roydyn Paul Vaughan’s grandfather) and no family
photographs, jewellery, or heirlooms, or memorabilia beyond that passed down by
the author’s father Arthur ( Paul) Mintorn VAUGHAN which included some
photographs of Arthur Frances Valentine and his wife Aida VAUGHAN. One reason
for this is that Arthur Frances Valentine VAUGHAN married a second time, very
late in his life, to a Welsh widow in Jersey and left everything to her.
Nothing was ever redeemed back to the Vaughan bloodline family by her. So all
that we have of our ancestors is knowledge of our lineage through copies of census
returns, birth, baptism and death records etc and certainly not a totally
proven path back to our possible first known ancestor Charles VAUGHAN.
We have in our family some interesting surnames,
“ VAUGHAN” itself being derived from the Welsh “ Fachan” meaning small or young one and first being
registered in Shrewsbury in the 12th
century
We have a repeated given name “ Mintorn “ also likely to be of Shropshire origins
According to some sources “Mintorn” and its various versions “Minton”, “Mintern”
etc are derived from one or both hamlets
near the Long Mynd Mountain in Shropshire near the Welsh border.
“Minton” is a tiny hamlet to the south east of the Long Mynd near Churchuch
Stoke and “Myndtown” a similar hamlet a few miles away on the south western
side of the Long Mynd facing Wales.
Some maternal names of Vaughan wives we can be
sure of; my wife Worsfold of Kaiwaka
New Zealand whose family came Otrohanga, and the Bay of Islands after arriving
in New Zealand from Croydon; Surry. My mother was a Williams of Tregynon, Powys, Wales; Mr father’s mother
grandmother Ada Crockers of Henstridge, Somerset, the earliest known Crocker
married a Pricilla Dufall of Bagbur Dorset.
Davis or Davies, both spellings appear for the same people of Bristol,
and a Jones also of Bristol. Before that the maternal names become a bit
speculative but it can be seen two rare names that stand out are“ Mintorn “
and “Dufall ” both of which deserve
much more research
We can say with certainty that we are of Anglo
Welsh descent with paternal ancestors who dwelt in Bristol and the West Country
of England for at least four generations and before that probably Shropshire
and or Wales. We may also have a dash of French blood from Pricilla Dufall’s
line.