When Sarah E Younger was born in 1856, in Navarro, Leon, Texas, United States, her father, Richard Hancock Younger, was 30 and her mother, Hannah Adams Ellison, was 28. She died in 1857, in her hometown, at the age of 1, and was buried in Younger Cemetery, Silver City, Navarro, Texas, United States.
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English (mainly Northumberland and eastern Scotland): from Middle English yungre ‘younger’, comparative of Young , used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In one case, at least, however, the name is known to have been borne by an immigrant Fleming, and was probably an Americanized form of Middle Dutch jongheer ‘young nobleman’ (see Jonker ).
Americanized form of various cognate or like-sounding names in other languages, notably German Junger and Junker , or Dutch Jonker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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