When Adelia A Young was born on 9 June 1850, in Daviess, Indiana, United States, her father, Thomas Tebbs Young, was 32 and her mother, Priscilla Houghton Horrall, was 28. She married Hamlet R Robinson on 12 February 1868, in Daviess, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Harrison Township, Daviess, Indiana, United States for about 30 years. She died on 30 January 1889, in Daviess, Indiana, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in East Union Cemetery, Harrison Township, Daviess, Indiana, 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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