When Roy William Young was born on 9 December 1911, in Otter Creek, Rock, Wisconsin, United States, his father, John E. Young, was 35 and his mother, Amelia C. Glochenthien, was 29. He married Helena Alwine Straschinske on 26 May 1935, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States in 1920 and Otter Creek, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States in 1930. He died on 3 August 1988, in Foster, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Saint Peters Lutheran Cemetery, Foster, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 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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