Gloster Estate...Lloyd Family...Roscrea

The Vaughans of Golden Grove or Knocknamase, county Offaly, were of Welsh origin and settled in King's County (Offaly) and Tipperary in the late 17th century. 

John Vaughan was granted lands in counties Limerick and Tipperary and in Queens and Kings Counties in 1670. His Munster estate amounted to 1,837 acres. In 1764 William Peisley Vaughan married Mary, daughter of Bishop Synge of Killaloe. Wilson, writing in 1786, refers to Golden Grove as the seat of Mr. Vaughan. In 1822 their eldest daughter, Martha, married John Lloyd, fourth son of John Lloyd of Gloster. They had an only daughter, Mary, who succeeded her uncle, William P. Vaughan, at Golden Grove in 1842. The following year Mary Vaughan Lloyd married Samuel Dawson Hutchinson of Mount Heaton, county Offaly, fourth son of William Hutchinson of Timoney. S.D. Hutchinson assumed the additional name of Lloyd Vaughan. Mary died in 1845 leaving an only son, William Peisley Hutchinson Lloyd Vaughan. He succeeded his grand uncle, Hardress Lloyd of Gloster, in 1860 and, in 1869, married Elizabeth H. Darby of Leap Castle, King's County. Dawson H. Vaughan held two townlands in the parish of Roscrea at the time of Griffith's Valuation. In the 1870s W.P.H.L. Vaughan of Golden Grove owned 498 acres in county Tipperary and 3,748 acres in county Offaly.