| Born: | 20 Mar 1799 Woolwich |
| Died: | 04 Apr 1886 Plumstead, Kent |
| Father: | Nathaniel Vaughan |
| Mother: | Elizabeth Reese |
| Spouse: | Lucy Gomery |
| Children: | John Vaughan, Edward Vaughan |
| Occupation: | Shipwright, Woolwich and Pembroke Dockyards |
| Christened: | 17 Apr 1799 St Mary Magdalene Woolwich |
| Buried: | 01 Apr 1886 Plumstead Cemetery |
| Updated: | 07 Mar 2009 |
Despite being christened "Eneas", this youngest son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Vaughan seems to have been known as "Enos" throughout his life, and this was the name he gave to census enumerators and which he used when writing his will. Like his father he became a shipwright in the Woolwich Dockyard.
In 1841 he was living with his wife Lucy and John, 20, Bricklayer, and Edward, 18, Painters apprentice, in Charles Street, Woolwich, but by 1851 Enos, Lucy, Edward Vaughan, nephew (sic) and 14 year old Sarah Gomery, niece, had moved to 4 Fox Place, Plumstead, next door to their son John's household.
In 1861, with the closure of the Woolwich Shipyard imminent, the Vaughans were to be found living at Pembroke Dock; Enos was now Inspector of Shipwrights. During the 1860s many craftsmen from the London dockyards transferred to Pembroke to work on the new iron ships. Enos had brought with him his wife Lucy aged 66, niece "LL Gomery" aged 24, and their 12 year old granddaughter Ellen.
In 1871 Enos, Lucy and Louise Gomery were back in Woolwich, at 175 Sandy Hill Road, Plumstead, where they remained until Enos's death in 1886. His Will was proved at the Principal Registry by his executors: his son John, now an Architect living at Gaskill Villas Thorner near Wakefield, and Sarah Louisa Gomery of 175 Sandy Hill Road. The latter died on 11 December 1918, while resident at 8 Florence Street, Islington, Middlesex with the Hodges, cousins of Jane Lane, John Vaughan's wife. Sarah Louisa's precise relationship to the Vaughan family is still a mystery: she was baptised Sarah Louisa Gomery on 10 August 1836 at St Alphage church Greenwich, the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Gomery, who then went on to marry James Waters on 12 June 1842 at Plumstead - her father's details are left blank. After Sarah Waters' death the 6 year old Sarah Louisa seems to have been adopted by her aunt Lucy (Gomery) Vaughan, in whose household she was living by 1851.
ID: 204 Generated by GedTree on 07 Mar 2009