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Hugh "Fychan" Vaughan and Jane Verch Morus Ap Owen Ap Gruffydd Ap Nicholas

Husband Hugh "Fychan" Vaughan
 
         Born:  - Cedweli, Carmarthenshire, Wales
   Christened: 
         Died: After 1547
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       Father: Gruffydd Vaughan ap Dafydd (Abt 1396-      )
       Mother: Tibod Verch Meredydd Ap Tudur Ap Gronwy (Abt 1415-      )
 
     Marriage: 
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1. Gentl: Henry VII.

Wife Jane Verch Morus Ap Owen Ap Gruffydd Ap Nicholas
 
         Born:  - Bryn-y-beirdd, Llandeilo Fawr, Carmarthenshire, Wales
   Christened:  - Enn ap Llwrch
         Died: 
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 Other Spouse: Jenkin "Llwyd" ap Dafydd (      -      )
Children

1 M John Vaughan
 
         Born: Abt 1525 - Carmarthenshire, Wales
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         Died: 1574
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Catrin Morgan \Verch Harry Ap Trahairn (Abt 1525-After 1552)
 
       Spouse: Catrin Wogan (      -      )
 
       Spouse: Elsbeth Parry (      -      )
General Notes: Husband - Hugh "Fychan" Vaughan

He was also known as Hugh Fychan of Cydweli. According to "Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales" by Thomas Nicholas (2nd Ed. 1872), Hugh was Gentleman Usher in the Court of Henry VII and fought a duel against Sir James Parker, killing Sir James, "concerning the arms and 'scutcheons of his family". John Stow described the duel in his book “Annales of England”. According to Stow, the duel was a joust and it occurred in May 1492 at Richmond, Surrey. See https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp533-546 . However, I have discovered that there were actually two Hugh Vaughans receiving favors from Henry VII. The other was Lord of Littleton Manor in Middlesex near London. See Hugh Vaughan (abt.1460-1536) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree . Michael Powell Siddons, appointed by the Crown to be Wales Herald of Arms Extraordinary between 1994-2010 asserts in his book “”The Development of Welsh Heraldry” Vol. 2 (1996) pg. 570, that it was Littleton Hugh who was Gentleman Usher. Assuming this to be true, it would imply that it was Littleton Hugh who fought the joust, since Stow describes the jouster as Gentleman Usher. This is likely correct and Nicholas is wrong since, according to Siddons, Littleton Hugh’s arms first appear in 1491, the year before the joust and Stow asserts that the dispute which lead to the joust was over Hugh’s heraldry. Hugh “Fychan”, by contrast was the founder of a much larger estate centered in Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, Wales. His wife was important to his developing fortunes. Her great grandfather, Gruffydd ap Nicholas , died at Mortimer’s Cross supporting the Tudor cause in the War of the Roses and her grandfather, Owen’s brother, Thomas Hynaf ap Gruffydd , was the father of Rhys ap Thomas , one of Henry VII’s most important supporters in the battle of Boswell Field. He and his children became some of the most powerful people in Wales. Hugh had the support of Rhys ap Thomas’s grandson Rhys ap Gruffydd and his son, Walter, was able to marry Rhys’ granddaughter, Katherine verch Griffith ap Rhys . I believe Golden Grove Hugh was, actually, living in Wales and not doing jousts in Surrey England. In 1531, Henry VII appointed Hugh to collect rents accruing to the Crown in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

General Notes: Child - John Vaughan

According to a summary of the Cawdor Vaughan muniments held by the Carmarthenshire Archive Service (ref. code GB 0211 CAWDOR), it was John, and not his father Hugh, who built the first Golden Grove mansion between 1560 and 1565. The Welsh name, Gelli Aur is probably a corruption of Gelli Oer, the cold grove, as the original mansion lay low down in the valley facing north.

John served as an MP for Carmarthen 1558, 1571 and 1572. His biography in "The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603", ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981, is as follows:
Family and Education

b. by 1525, 1st s. of Hugh Vaughan of Kidwelly by 1st w. Jane, da. of Moris ab Owen of Bryn-y-Beirdd, Llandeilo, Carm. and Upton Castle, Pemb. m. Catherine, da. of Henry Morgan of Muddlescwm, 2s. Henry and Walter. 1da.; at least 6s. 5da. illegit.
Offices Held

Bailiff, Carmarthen in 1553, mayor 1554-5, 1563-4, alderman in 1555; receiver, duchy of Lancaster, Kidwelly 10 Mar. 1554-d.; j.p.q. Carm. 1559-d.; commr. subsidy 1560, piracy 1565; customer, Milford Haven, Pemb. 1560-d.; steward, Cilgerran, Pemb. 1560-d; sheriff, Carm. 1562-3; bailiff, coroner, escheator and town clerk, Kidwelly by 1572.
Biography

The Vaughans of Golden Grove (as they came to be known) were of old Powys stock, traditionally of base descent from the princes of Powys. The first to appear in South Wales was Vaughan's father, who made a fortunate marriage into the family of Sir Rhys ap Gruffydd of Dynevor then the most powerful man in Wales. On Rhys's attainder in 1531, Hugh Vaughan (then a groom of the chamber) was one of those appointed to collect the rents accruing to the Crown from the attained man's lands in the lordship of Kidwelly.

John Vaughan II added substantially to the lands his father had acquired in the commote of Is-Cennan first by securing a lease of the manor of Dryslwyn, north of the Towy, and then in 1564, by taking leases of Rhys ap Gruffydd's former lands south of the river. It was here that the family mansion of Golden Grove was built, and tradition makes John Vaughan the builder. However, in all contemporary documents, up to and including his will, he is described as 'of Carmarthen' (or, as in the pardon roll of 1554, 'late of Carmarthen'). On the other hand, his request to be buried in the parish church of Llanfihangel Aberbythych suggests at least an intention to settle in the parish. In 1568 and 1566 he made further acquisitions from the forfeited lands of Rhys ap Gruffydd in and around Llanelly, Pembrey, Llanstephen and St. Clears (east and west of Kidwelly) and in Carmarthen borough. He also accumulated offices both in the lordship of Kidwelly and in Carmarthen borough, where his mayoralty was the subject of a complimentary ode by a bard of Gwynedd, and was followed by return to Parliament for the Boroughs. He became an important figure in the shire, in influence second only to the family of Jones of Abermarlais, the chief beneficiaries by the attainder of their kinsman Rhys ap Gruffydd.

Vaughan had to put up a fight in the court of the duchy of Lancaster in 1570-1 for his duchy lands and offices, and his title was evidently upheld: the offices provided the excuse for a period of leave of absence from Parliament 11 June 1572 and the lands remained in the family. Browne Willis is wrong in giving Vaughan as the Member for Carmarthenshire in 1571 in his printed list, and may also be wrong in giving John Morgan as the Member for Carmarthen Boroughs in 1571. If so, it is at least possible that Vaughan sat for the Boroughs in that Parliament. The John Vaughan who was on two committees in 1571 was presumably John Vaughan I, but both John Vaughans were on the committee discussing Mary Stuart, 12 May 1572.

Vaughan died in 1574. The parliamentary vacancy was filled by his heir and executor Walter, who also succeeded his father in the mayoralty of Carmarthen, the receivership of Kidwelly, and, later, the shrievalty of Carmarthenshire. In his will, dated 6 Aug. 1568 and proved 19 June 1574, Vaughan bequeathed the Is-Cennan lands centring on Golden Grove to Walter Vaughan, but the outlying estates, including manors, parsonages, townships and house property in and near Carmarthen and Kidwelly and in south Pembrokeshire, to his other son Henry. Those in Llanelly district went to a cousin; and provision was made in cash and stock totalling about £100 for his many illegitimate children. Charitable bequests amounted to no more than ten shillings for the poor, and another £1 for municipal uses, at Carmarthen, and £2 and a black gown to the bishop for a funeral sermon.

F. Jones, 'The Vaughans of Golden Grove', Trans. Cymmrod. Soc. 1963, pp. 98-102; Cal. sheriffs etc. of Carmarthen (NLW ms 5586B), 9-10; Somerville, Duchy, i. 643; J. E. Lloyd, Carm. ii. 467; APC, vii. 285; E178/3345; LP Hen. VIII, xxi(1), p. 248; CPR, 1554-5, p. 347; 1558-60, p. 245; 1560-3, p. 445; 1563-6, p. 332; PCC 26 Martyn; Augmentations, ed. Lewis and Davies (Univ. Wales Bd. of Celtic Studies, Hist. and Law ser. xiii), 246, 263-4; Exchequer, ed. E. G. Jones (same ser. iv), 114; Cynfeirdd Lleyn, 1905, pp. 80-1; Flenley, Cal. Reg. Council, Marches of Wales, 75; DL1/80/V2; CJ, i. 102; D'Ewes, 206.

Ray Sands and Anna Niles

Husband Ray Sands
 
         Born: 5 Jan 1736 - Cow's Neck, Long Island, NY
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         Died: 1 Feb 1808
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       Father: Edward Sands (1712-1778)
       Mother: Hannah Tredwell (1709-1760)
 
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Wife Anna Niles
 
         Born: 11 Sep 1744
   Christened: 
         Died: 23 Mar 1827
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Children

Edward Sands and Deborah Niles

Husband Edward Sands
 
         Born: 3 Apr 1748 - Block Island, RI
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         Died: 1 Feb 1808
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       Father: Edward Sands (1712-1778)
       Mother: Hannah Tredwell (1709-1760)
 
     Marriage: 14 Dec 1769 - Block Island, RI
Wife Deborah Niles
 
         Born: 11 Dec 1751 - Charlestown, Rhode Island
   Christened: 
         Died: 10 Jan 1817 - Block Island, RI
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Children

1 F Hannah Treadwell Sands
 
         Born: 1 Jan 1779
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         Died: 
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2 M William Pitt Sands
 
         Born: 28 Aug 1774 - Block Island, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 18 Dec 1846 - Block Island, RI
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       Spouse: Catherine Littlefield Sands (1782-1834)
         Marr: 27 Aug 1807 - Block Island, RI
3 M Niles Sands
 
         Born: 15 Sep 1772 - Block Island, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 26 Dec 1772
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4 F Anna Sands
 
         Born: 23 Nov 1770 - Block Island, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 20 Dec 1846
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Nathaniel Niles and Sarah Sands

Husband Nathaniel Niles
 
         Born: 16 Aug 1642 - Braintree, Norfolk Cty, MA
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         Died: 1727 - Sands Point, Nassau, NY
       Buried: 
 
     Marriage: 14 Feb 1671 - Block Island, RI
Wife Sarah Sands
 
         Born: 1651 - Portsmouth, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 1726 - Sands Point, Nassau, NY
       Buried: 
 
       Father: James Sands (1622-1695) ¹
       Mother: Sarah Walker (1620-1709)
Children

1 F Catherine Niles
 
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2 M Samuel Niles
 
         Born: 1 May 1674 - Block Island, RI
   Christened: 
         Died: 1 May 1762
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General Notes: Child - Catherine Niles

She was given the negress Sarah by her grandmother Sands to be freed at the age of thirty.

General Notes: Child - Samuel Niles

Niles was a Harvard trained minister. He is the author of the attached "History of the Indian and French Wars" published by the Massachusetts Historical Societ, series 4, volume 5, beginning on page 154 (1861). This account includes information about the early history of Block Island and about his grandfather, James Sands.

Francis VanWyck and Elizabeth Van Nostrand

Husband Francis VanWyck
 
         Born: Jul 1851 - New York, NY
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         Died: 6 Oct 1912
       Buried: 
 
       Father: Stephen VanWyck (1815-      )
       Mother: Philena McPherson (Abt 1822-      )
 
     Marriage: 1 Jan 1887
Wife Elizabeth Van Nostrand
 
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Children

1 M Edwin Hawley VanWyck
 
         Born: 1888
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         Died: 
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       Spouse: Helen Ryerson (      -      )
         Marr: Jan 1911
2 F E. Philena VanWyck
 
         Born: 1891
   Christened: 
         Died: 
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       Spouse: Elliot Gordon (      -      )
         Marr: 1 Jun 1911 - Harbor Hill, Roslyn, LI
General Notes: Husband - Francis VanWyck

Living in Brooklyn, NY in 1886

Algernon Edward Sartoris and Cecilia Noufflard

Husband Algernon Edward Sartoris
 
         Born: 17 Mar 1877
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         Died: 1907
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       Father: Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris (1851-1893)
       Mother: Ellen Wrenshall Grant (1855-1922)
 
     Marriage: 1904
Wife Cecilia Noufflard
 
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Children

1 F Vivien Sartoris
 
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       Spouse: F. Roosevelt Scovell (      -1931)
2 M Herbert Charles Urban Grant Sartoris
 
         Born: 17 Aug 1906
   Christened: 
         Died: 3 Apr 1933
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Alix Jeuffrain (1906-      )
         Marr: 6 Apr 1929
General Notes: Wife - Cecilia Noufflard

Name wrongly quoted as Houfflard in some pedigrees.

General Notes: Child - Herbert Charles Urban Grant Sartoris

Discrepancy between his date of death and birth of his last children.

Golden Worth Small and Irema Obera Oldham

Husband Golden Worth Small
 
         Born: 3 Jun 1898
   Christened: 
         Died: 12 Jun 1982 - bur.  Pine Hill
       Buried: 
 
     Marriage: 16 Jun 1923
Wife Irema Obera Oldham
 
         Born: Dec 1907
   Christened: 
         Died: 10 Mar 1951 - bur.  Pine Hill
       Buried: 
 
       Father: William Ernest Oldham (1880-1962)
       Mother: Minnie Lea Hughes (1882-1952)
Children

Amick H. Patterson and Jessamine Davis Oldham

Husband Amick H. Patterson
 
         Born: 15 Feb 1901
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         Died: 
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     Marriage: 21 Dec 1975
Wife Jessamine Davis Oldham
 
         Born: 2 May 1903
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         Died: 
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       Father: William Ernest Oldham (1880-1962)
       Mother: Minnie Lea Hughes (1882-1952)
 
 Other Spouse: James Floyd Deaton (      -1969) - 17 Jun 1946
Children

George W. Olinger and Gracie Glen Orr

Husband George W. Olinger
 
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Wife Gracie Glen Orr
 
         Born: 
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       Father: John Carson Whitehead Orr (1865-1944)
       Mother: Missouri Ann Heniger (      -      )
Children

Ernest A. Potters and Mary Loretta O'Malley

Husband Ernest A. Potters
 
         Born: 24 Sep 1888 - Barmen, Germany
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         Died: Mar 1975 - Northport, Suffolk County, NY
       Buried: 
 
       Father: Ernst Poetters (1866-1937)
       Mother: Unknown (      -Abt 1900)
 
     Marriage: 5 Jul 1916 - Sullivan, NY
Events

1. Occupation: Designer in a factory, photo engraved printer.

Wife Mary Loretta O'Malley
 
         Born: Abt 1905 - New York
   Christened: 
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       Father: Patrick O'Malley (      -      )
       Mother: Mary Mcnamara (      -      )
Children

1 M Stephen Potters
 
         Born: 5 Jul 1919 - New York
   Christened: 
         Died: Mar 1995
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Doris Gahwyler (1920-1989)
2 F Barbara Ann Potters
 
         Born: 16 Apr 1921 - Valley Stream, New York
   Christened: 
         Died: 26 May 2016 - Los Angles, CA
       Buried: 
 
       Spouse: Diego Bermudez (      -      )
         Marr: 26 Apr 1952 - Los Angles, CA
3 M David Potters
 
         Born: 8 Oct 1924 - New York
   Christened: 
         Died: 12 Jan 2004 - Pinellas Co., FL
       Buried: 
 
General Notes: Husband - Ernest A. Potters

He arrived in NY from Antwerp Belgium on the SS Vadrland on October 13 , 1903. His occupation is listed as engraver. He is listed as going to join his father, Ernst, at 101 E. 15th St. in Manhattan. According to the 1910 Census, he was living in the 9th Ward of Brooklyn with Paul and Rudolph.

Sources

1 Malcolm Samds Wilson, Descendants James Sands of Block Island (Name: New York, 1949;). .... Rebecca [Peck] Dusenbery, Peck, Adams and Allied Families, Genealiogical & Biographical (Name: New York, American Historical Sociey, 1925;). .... Charles H. Sandys, Dawn to Twilight in American Colonization. .... Rebecca [Peck] Dusenbery, Peck, Adams and Allied Families, Genealiogical & Biographical (Name: Name: New York, American Historical Sociey, 1925;;). .... Malcolm Samds Wilson, Descendants James Sands of Block Island (Name: Name: New York, 1949;;).

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