When James Albert Young was born in 1867, in Rockingham, North Carolina, United States, his father, Pinckney J. Young, was 27 and his mother, Mary Caroline Lyon, was 23. He married Martha B. Sparks on 2 December 1884, in Oregon Hill, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Ruffin Township, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and Ruffin, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States in 1910. He died in 1940, at the age of 73, and was buried in Ruffin, Rockingham, North Carolina, 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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