Name/Title
1879/Vaughan: the Vaughans and the HughesesDescription
Circa 1879. The handwriting and tiny sketches are Kathleen's, She cut this photo down to an oval shape and framed it, so it must have been particularly meaningful to her.
She has provided the names and other details for this mixed family group of Hugheses and Vaughans, but no date. It seems that it was taken before the marriage of Francis Hughes and Rose Edith Vaughan in September 1880, so 1879 is probably accurate.
It is a revelation that Rose Edith was so absolutely tiny.
Frances Vaughan, far left, middle row, was of the same generation as Seneca and Mary Vaughan, and is the only one of that generation of whom a photographic image has survived.
Fly and Ba-Ba, bottom row, never married. These aunts are mentioned in Kathleen's memoirs.
Melvill Hughes, "the loopy Melvill" (Humphrey to Kathleen, letter, 1974), is top left. He is also mentioned in Kathleen's memoirs.
Although his four sisters are here, together with his wife Fanny (far right), regrettably there is no sign of Augustus Fossett Vaughan, the first collector of family records and information.
Augustus had two brothers who apparently survived childhood - George Lingard Vaughan and William Arthur Vaughan, but the usually very informative family records give no details about these brothers other than their birth year. However, an 1878 Post Office Cheshire Trades Directory (digitised by Chester East Council) gives the solicitors' firm of Vaughan and Sons as including a George Lingard Vaughan alongside Augustus.
Also noticeable is the absence of the father, John Lingard Vaughan, although his wife Frances is present. Perhaps there was another portrait of the men of the Vaughan family.
John Ball, the dominating figure in the centre, was a medical doctor, who married Catherine Anne in 1870. Kathleen in her memoirs marks Catherine Anne as having died when Kathleen was very young, hence possibly in the 1890s.
