When Mary E. Young was born in 1852, in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Newell Young, was 30 and her mother, Persis Ann Mccullock, was 32. She married Merwin Clayton Sinclair on 13 January 1875, in Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1860. She died on 1 January 1892, in Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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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