Abel Young

Brief Life History of Abel

When Abel Young was born in 1823, in Haldimand, Ontario, Canada, his father, David Young, was 37 and his mother, Lucinda Beeman, was 22. He married Mary Jane Wood about 1848, in Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Nissouri Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada in 1851 and Caledonia, Solomon Islands in 1898. He died on 24 December 1898, in Caledonia, Haldimand, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 75, and was buried in Caledonia, Haldimand, Ontario, Canada.

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Family Time Line

Abel Young
1823–1898
Louisa Shaver
1841–1898
Marriage: 6 May 1863
Alson Young
1867–
Orey Alson Young Sr.
1868–1938
Rebecca Young
1869–1927
Walter Edward Young
1870–1959
Edith Ada Young
1872–1942
James Patsey Young
1879–

Sources (26)

  • Abel Young, "Canada Census, 1881"
  • Abel Young, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
  • Abel Jo..., "Canada, Ontario, Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"

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World Events (4)

1867 · Ontario Founded

On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.

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1883 · Mining Boom

In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.

Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .

Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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