When James W Young was born on 19 July 1904, in Loyal, Clark, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Otis Gordon Young, was 39 and his mother, May Piper, was 28. He married Doris Farrand on 19 December 1945, in Lake, Indiana, United States. He lived in Mauston, Juneau, Wisconsin, United States in 1920 and Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States in 1930. He died on 9 October 1979, in Wisconsin Rapids, Wood, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Nekoosa, Wood, Wisconsin, 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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