Thomas Vaughan

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O'Mohan, Maughan, Vaughan The family name Vaughan according to Edward MacLysaght in his work entitled "More Irish Names", is a Welsh surname of some settler families in Ireland - they are on record in various parts of the country since 1540 if not before. Vaughan is widely used as the anglicized form of O'Mochain. In county Galway its original habitat, it is called Mohan and sometimes Maughan or Mahan in English, and this in turn has been changed to Mahon. Vaughan indeed is a rare name in Connacht but quite numerous in the Munster counties of Cork, Limerick, and Claire. Exactly when, how, and where the Vaughan family arrived in the North County Cork area is unknown, but the name is numerous in the church records of the Church of the Assumption, in Milford. Church records are a primary source of information in this family history. Thomas Vaughan was married to Johanna Sullivan on 20 Feb 1846 at the Catholic Chapel in Milford, Ireland by Reverend R.O. Riordan. The chapel records of the parish of Milford and Freemount date back to at least 1830, and it is there the records were found. According to the church record, the marriage was witnessed by Daniel Sullivan, possible father of Johanna Sullivan, and Richard Vaughan, possible brother and best man to Thomas Vaughan. The record of the church lists many other Vaughan families, many are possible relations as families could be quite large. Thomas Vaughancame to the United States of America from the Freemount andMilford area in North County Cork, Ireland sometime between1872 and 1880. Most probably, he and his wife Margret were sent passage fare from Ireland to Galveston, Texas by his sons Edmund and Daniel Vaughan who had arrived in East Texas from Saint Louis, Missouri by working on the Texas and Pacific Railroad. Both obituaries for Edmund Vaughan and Daniel Vaughan relate their first coming to the Irish Ridge area in 1873 or 1874. They could be rightly called pioneers in the area since the town of Terrell dates to the time when the Texas and Pacific Railroad came through the area. The Atlantic crossing for the Vaughan family may have been made on "The Galveston and Liverpool Steamship Line" which made frequent passages between those points with a stop at Queenstown, Ireland, which is now known as Cobn, pronounced "Cove". The sailing vessels of the day were very much like the restored sailing ship "Elisa" which arrived in Galveston once during the 1880's and which can be seen today in Galveston as a historic vessel. The steam ships of the day such as the Cunard Line ships "Etruia" and "Umbria" were each 500 feet long, 8,127 tons, with engines that could produce 14,500 horse-power and could steam at 19 and 'a2 knots. Each ship carried 550 first class passengers, and 800 emigrants. Records of the actual Vaughan family passage have not been located due to the large number of records involved in a comprehensive search, which still must be done without the use of a computer. Some computerized records exist for passage searches, but they are incomplete records. In 1883, the Vaughan family had settled in Kaufman County Texas and would welcome the arrival of their daughter Mary Vaughan Dennehy, her husband Patrick Dennehy and their five children whom they had left behind in the North Cork townland called Coolbane. The leaving of Ireland at the time was filled with sadness, but it was also filled with the happy prospect of a family rejoined, and the economic promise of a new land which welcomed the immigrants and quickly made them citizens.

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1880 United States Federal Census birth date: 1824 birth place: Garryduff, Monagay, County Limerick, Ireland residence date: 1880 residence place: Precinct 2, Kaufman, Texas, United States 1,6742::6994267

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http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4064&h=543938&ti=0&... Name: Thomas Vaughan death date: 01 Dec 1889 death place: Irish Ridge, Kaufman County, Texas burial date: 1889 burial place: Oakland Memorial Park, Terrell, Texas 1,70580::543938

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Grave Marker: Oakland Cemetery, Kaufman County, Terrell, Texas ABBR Grave Marker: Oakland Cemetery, Kaufman County, T

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http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4064&h=543938&ti=0&... Name: Thomas Vaughan death date: 01 Dec 1889 death place: Irish Ridge, Kaufman County, Texas burial date: 1889 burial place: Oakland Memorial Park, Terrell, Texas 1,70580::543938

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1880 United States Federal Census birth date: 1824 birth place: Garryduff, Monagay, County Limerick, Ireland residence date: 1880 residence place: Precinct 2, Kaufman, Texas, United States 1,6742::6994267

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1880 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Ancestry.com Operations Inc 1,6742::0

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1880 United States Federal Census birth date: 1824 birth place: Garryduff, Monagay, County Limerick, Ireland residence date: 1880 residence place: Precinct 2, Kaufman, Texas, United States 1,6742::6994267

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National Library of Ireland; Dublin, Ireland; Microfilm Number: Microfilm 05008 / 10 1,61039::9422595

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@R-1274643424@ Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,2272::0

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1880 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Ancestry.com Operations Inc 1,6742::0

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1880 United States Federal Census birth date: 1824 birth place: Garryduff, Monagay, County Limerick, Ireland residence date: 1880 residence place: Precinct 2, Kaufman, Texas, United States 1,6742::6994267

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@R-1573397885@ Web: Texas, Find A Grave Index, 1836-2011 Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 19 January 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi 1,70580::0

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http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4064&h=543938&ti=0&... Name: Thomas Vaughan death date: 01 Dec 1889 death place: Irish Ridge, Kaufman County, Texas burial date: 1889 burial place: Oakland Memorial Park, Terrell, Texas 1,70580::543938

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1,60525::9995189

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@R-1274643424@ Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,61039::0

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National Library of Ireland; Dublin, Ireland; Microfilm Number: Microfilm 05008 / 10 1,61039::9422595

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@R-1274643424@ Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,2272::0

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Texas Department of State Health Services; Austin Texas, USA 1,2272::90144771