When Maud Ella Young was born in July 1892, in Arkansas, United States, her father, John Young, was 54 and her mother, Antoinette Black, was 32. She married Charles Grover Branstetter on 8 December 1910, in Lincoln, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in La Grue Township, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years and DeWitt, Onondaga, New York, United States in 1981. She died on 18 September 1981, in DeWitt, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in DeWitt, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1895: Lincoln, Arkansas, United States
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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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