When Albert Lawton Young was born in May 1849, in Rhode Island, United States, his father, Parley Young, was 35 and his mother, Susan B. Lawton, was 28. He married Ida A. Young on 25 May 1875, in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. He died on 17 April 1920, in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Grafton Center Cemetery, Grafton Center, Grafton, Grafton, New Hampshire, 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.
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