When Louis Richard Young was born on 13 August 1936, in Swayzee, Sims Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, his father, Louis Francis Young, was 21 and his mother, Wilmadeen Nesbitt, was 17. He married Elizabeth Ellen Rigney on 3 January 1953, in Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in United States in 1949 and Liberty Township, Grant, Indiana, United States in 1950. He died on 13 September 2007, in Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Estates of Serenity, Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, 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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