What does the surname Young mean?
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Descriptive, the younger. Old English geong, applied as a personal byname distinguishing a son who shared a forename with a father or older kinsman. Direct equivalent of the Welsh Vaughan (Fychan), the Irish Óg, the Scottish Gaelic Òg. A descriptive surname, frozen at the moment of Tudor-era surname compression. Young is among the more common Scots surnames, densest in the north-east, Aberdeenshire and Banff, and across the Borders.
Where does the Young family come from?
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The Young family is rooted in Grampian & the North-East and The Borders, in Scotland. Within that, the name was particularly concentrated in Aberdeen and The Borders. The atlas page for the name records the historical territory it has held over the centuries.
Where did the Young family historically hold territory?
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At its greatest historical extent, the Young name has been concentrated in Buchan & Mar, Moray, Angus, Midlothian, Edinburgh and Lanarkshire. The atlas page distinguishes the core territory of the name from this wider historical reach with hatched silhouettes on the map.
Is Young a Scotland surname?
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Yes, Young is a Scotland surname. Its editorial home in this atlas is Scotland, where the historical territory and family record of the name are concentrated.
How old is the Young surname?
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Young is among the more common Scots surnames, densest in the north-east, Aberdeenshire and Banff, and across the Borders. European hereditary surnames crystallised broadly between the 12th and 14th centuries, and the Young name took its modern form within that long settlement.
What is the Young family known for?
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Descriptive, the younger, sister surname to Vaughan in Wales and Óg in Ireland. Young is among the more common Scots surnames, densest in the north-east, Aberdeenshire and Banff, and across the Borders.
What is the Young motto?
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The motto of the Young family is "Robori prudentia praestat", which translates as "Prudence excels strength". Family mottoes were registered with the chief of the name and carried on the heraldic arms and battle-banners.
What does "Robori prudentia praestat" mean in English?
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"Robori prudentia praestat" is the motto of the Young family. In English it means "Prudence excels strength". The phrase is typically rendered in Latin, though some Highland families carry their motto in Gaelic and some Norman lines in Old French.
Who is the most famous Young?
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The best-known bearer of the Young name is Sir James Young Simpson (1811–1870), pioneer of obstetric anaesthesia. Other prominent figures of the family include Andrew Young (1885–1971), Borders nature-poet, Brigham Young (1801–1877), second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, founder of Salt Lake City and Neil Young (b. 1945), Canadian musician of Scots-Young descent.
Who are some famous Youngs?
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Notable bearers of the Young name include Sir James Young Simpson (1811–1870), pioneer of obstetric anaesthesia, Andrew Young (1885–1971), Borders nature-poet, Brigham Young (1801–1877), second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, founder of Salt Lake City and Neil Young (b. 1945), Canadian musician of Scots-Young descent. Each is profiled on the family page, with cross-links to the geography, stories, and historical events tied to their life.
What stories are told about the Young family?
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The Young family is associated with Brigham Young: This is the place. Each story has its own page on this site with the full account, the date, the location, and the other families involved.
What is the story of Brigham Young: This is the place?
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On the morning of Saturday the twenty-fourth of July 1847, at the head of Emigration Canyon on the eastern rim of the Salt Lake Valley in the Utah Territory of what was then Mexican Alta California, Brigham Young, forty-six years old, the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, raised himself in the bed of the Mormon-emigrant wagon he had been carried in across the last fifteen hundred miles (he had been suffering from Rocky Mountain spotted fever and could not walk), looked down across the broad treeless Great Salt Lake basin spread below the canyon, and said, in the seven-word sentence that has carried his name in Mormon and American Western memory ever since: This is the right place; drive on. The eight-mile wagon descent to the valley floor took the rest of the day; by the evening the lead-camp of the Pioneer Company of one hundred and forty-eight Mormon emigrants had pitched the first tents on the future site of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, dug the first irrigation trench from City Creek, ploughed the first three acres, planted the first potato crop. The event is dated to 1847.
Is Younge the same family as Young?
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Yes. Younge is a historical spelling variant of the Young name. The two share the same lineage and family affiliation; different parishes, clerks and migration registrars recorded the same name in slightly different forms, and the variant spellings sit on the same family tree.
Is MacYoung the same family as Young?
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Yes. MacYoung is a historical spelling variant of the Young name. The two share the same lineage and family affiliation; different parishes, clerks and migration registrars recorded the same name in slightly different forms, and the variant spellings sit on the same family tree.
Where is the Young surname found today?
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Scotland is the primary historical home of the Young surname. In the modern era, the name is also borne across the wider diaspora, particularly in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where families carry the line of descent from the same Scotland origin recorded on this page.
What does the Clan Rising page for the Young family cover?
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The Clan Rising page for the Young family covers the meaning of the surname, the historical geography of the name, the family motto, famous bearers of the name, traditional stories and the seat of the head of the family. Each section is linked to the underlying atlas of Scotland so the name can be read in the geography that shaped it.
Who is the head of the Young family today?
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The seat for the head of the Young family is currently vacant on this register. Clan Rising is rebuilding the chief and family structure for the modern era, and the family page allows readers to claim the seat or pledge to the name.