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Family Friday, George Wellington Vaughan

                                                      George Wellington VAUGHAN. George, like the song from CSI, I ask "Who are you?" You are the sixth child and third son of Henry and Charlotte, born 18 June 1852 and baptised 15 August 1852*, at St Philips Church, Sydney. I wonder if your middle name, Wellington, is in honour of the 1st Duke of Wellington, the hero of the Battle of Waterloo. He died in 1852, so this seems likely. Then George you disappear, vanish! No death. No marriage. Nothing in any newspaper. Nothing, very frustrating. BUT searching the New South Wales (NSW), Birth, Death and Marriage records, I find this; Ref No  1876/1213* Groom VAUGHAN, Edward Wellington Bride STANSALL, Esther Maria. P...