When Phyllis Margareta Young was born on 13 December 1904, in Everett, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Maurice Austin Young, was 27 and her mother, Anna Elizabeth Taylor, was 27. She married Herman Guy Johnson on 28 June 1921, in Kuna, Ada, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Kuna Election Precinct, Ada, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Elmore, Idaho, United States in 1950. She died on 20 August 1992, in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States, at the age of 87.
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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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