Bridget Vaughan
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Short Stats
- Character Name: Bridget Vaughan
- Title: none
- Estate Name: Porthammel House, in Porthammel, Brecknockshire
- Nationality: English
- Age: 15 (b. 1660)
- Gender: Female
- Eye Colour: Dark brown
- Hair Colour: Dark brown
Physical Attributes & Initial Impression of Personality
An inch or two shorter than average, she has dark hair, dark eyes, and ample curves, shown to advantage in fashionable, although not ornate attire.
Background
Born to Walter Vaughan and his wife, Alice (nee: Bond), during or before 1661, she is a heiress and only child. Her grandfather, Canon Frederick Vaughan was a respected clergyman, but is deceased. He and his wife were from Wiltshire, and he was the younger son of a nobleman (pos. 2nd Earl of Carbery)
Her family resides in Porthammel House, one of two great houses in Porthammel, Brecknockshire. In the area are o Bronllys Castle, 2 great houses, 4 manor houses, many little farm houses, and a respectable inn. It is good farmland, and Porthamel House has a deer park reaching down to the Afon Llynfi. It is a fortified manor house, built by the first High Sheriff of Brecknockshire.
She is best friends with Lady Elizabeth Holles, daughter of the Earl of Clare.
She attends Windsor for Christmas, 1675. It is said that she is courted by both Lord Brynfield and Lord Gowran.
(Historically, she married John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham, son of William Ashburnham and Hon. Elizabeth Poulett, on 22 July 1677 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England.)
