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Jessie Darwyn Young Family Genealogy Although some Youngs originated in England, Ireland, Wales, France and Germany, there is no where in the world with higher concentrations of Youngs than in Scotland. Most estimates state that between one third and one half of all Young families in North America originated in Scotland. The first Young recorded in history was Wilferd the Young who was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles as having died in 744 after being the Bishop of York for the past 30 years. At that time York was a part of the Kingdom of Northumbria, an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom which stretched from the Humber River in the south, north to the Firth of Forth in Scotland. By the 1200s, the Youngs were recorded in Scotland where they appear to have risen to positions of prominence. Two brothers, Malmor and Ade, for instance, were appointed as "assizers" (court officials) in Dunbarton in 1271. William Young was recorded as a monk who was the "confessor" to the knights who were garrisoned in Edinburgh Castle in the year 1300. In 1325, John Young was a Laird of Strachan, in Kincardineshire, and his son, Alexander, married the daughter of Sir Henry Maule of Panmure. Henry had been Knighted by King Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn. How many years the Youngs were in Scotland before this time is uncertain. Many of the written records of the time period were destroyed during the Scottish War of Independence which raged on and off from the late 1200s to the early 1300s. Today it is estimated that the surname Young is the 15th most common surname in all of Scotland. In Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, it is the 13th most common surname, and it is estimated that one out of every 185 residents bears this surname. Edinburgh has the highest concentrations of Young's of any city in the world and it is closely followed by Glasgow. (1) "Clan Young was and still is, composed of a wide range of families named Young. The clan heritage enfolds the tutor to King James and the Border rivers. Add the wagons of the Gypsy Youngs for a bit of spice and ye have a posse to meet anything the world can throw. So whether we don wee black hats and red coats, or swing aboard a pony to borrow a few sheep from the English or roam the hills with no destination in mind, yer a YOUNG!" --- Russell Smith "For that is the mark of the Scots of all classes: that he stands in an attitude towards the past unthinkable to Englishmen, and remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation." --- Robert Louis Stevenson, Weir of Hermiston, 1894 My Young family came to America from Scotland via Northern Ireland. The origin of my Young family began with the Lamont clan of Scotland. |
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