When Dorcas Young was born on 29 June 1826, in East Harwich, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Jonathan Young, was 38 and her mother, Dorcas Wixon, was 34. She married William Wixom Eldredge on 28 January 1845, in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States in 1850 and Massachusetts, United States in 1870. She died on 5 January 1898, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, 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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