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1. The Vaughan family

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The Morgans also give the derivation of the surname Vaughan to illustrate the influence of English customs on a family located in a bilingual border area.


"The first great Vaughan family is located in Bredwardine, Hereford. The name of this family has its origins in the Welsh epithet Fychan , attached to the name of Rhosier .... who was killed protecting the body of Henry V at the battle of Agincourt in 1415. This Rhosier's father was Rhosier, therefore the father had to be Rhosier Hen 'the Old' and the son Rhosier Fychan, i.e. 'Young Roger'. Rhosier's sons (not all) are called Fychan or Vaughan, and it is fairly clear that Vaughan in this generation had become the surname."
The first known member of this Cardiganshire family to bear the name was Llywelyn Fychan, born around the year 1250).

"Welsh Surnames" by T.J. Morgan and Prys Morgan. (University of Wales Press, 1985, ISBN 0-7083-0936-4).

http://www.data-wales.co.uk/names.htm

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2. The Williams family

Henry WILLIAMS


Birth: Abt 1570
Of Gwernevet, Breconshire, Wales

Death: 21 Oct 1636
Gwernevet, Breconshire, Wales
Burial:
Breconshire, Wales

Father: David WILLIAMS
Mother:

m. Eleanor WHITNEY
Marriage: Bef 1607

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David WILLIAMS

Birth: Abt. 1544
Of Gwernevet, Breconshire, Wales

Death: 22 Jan 1612/1613

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3. The Vaughan family, and their link to the Whitneys of Whitney.

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The best known of the line was Sir Roger Vaughan, of Bredwardine,
Herefordshire, who fell in the battle of Agincourt, and was, like his neighbour
and father-in-law, Sir David Gam, vainly knighted by Henry V. while dying on the field.



The house of the Vaughans,
now a farmhouse in the village of Tre-twr,
is generally overlooked by searchers after the antiquarian and picturesque.
Leland calls it "the faire place of Henry Vehan, Esq."


Vaughans of Trebarried.

The Vaughans of Trebarried were a branch of those of Tre'rtwr
(Tretower), deriving as Vaughans from "Roger Vaughan of Talgarth," and son,

according to the St. Mark's Coll. MS., of Sir Roger of Tre'rtwr, son of the first knight (of Agincourt)
of that name.

Maternally they were derived from a Norman line, the mother of the first Vaughan (Roger)
of Trebarried
being dau. and co-heiress of Robert Whitney, Esq.,
commonly called Lord Whitney,
and back in direct line to "Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Belesmo" in Normandy,
who "came into England with William the Conqueror," and so on, as usual.

from

Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales

Old families of British origin.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M34ystsNDn8C&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95
&dq=vaughan+trebarried+whitney&source=web&ots=I5zSVQyY8h&sig=SFAN
aPe95vvHKu-ZhPaX2gvqfZg&hl=en

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