John Young (1857-1931)


Dates

Birth: July-September 1857 Shoreham, Sussex, UK
Father: William Young 1803-1868
Mother: Sarah Young 1813-1878

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Elizabeth Wells 1863-1919

Death: January-March 1931 Southwark, London, UK

Children

John George Young 1885-1967
Sarah Jane Young [Holton] 1888-1915
Ellen Maud Young 1890-1950
Elizabeth Emily Young [Jenkins] 1892-1976
Florence Young 1896-a1911
Jessie Annie Young [Turner, Rootes] 1901-1992
James William Young 1904-a1911

Notes

Birth of John Young in FreeBMD in July-September 1857 in Steyning (2b 227).

In the 1861 census as John Young aged 5, born in New Shoreham, Sussex, and living with his parents (William and Sarah), three brothers (Joseph, Robert and Samuel ), and two sisters ( Ellen and Mercy) in East Street, New Shoreham, Sussex.

His father died in 1868.

In the 1871 census as John Young aged 19 in the index, 14 on the original, born in New Shoreham, Sussex, single, a mariner, and living with his widowed mother (Sarah) and brother (Samuel) in East Street, New Shoreham, Sussex.

In the 1881 census as John Young aged 22, born in Sussex, single, a mariner and boarding with Absalom Woolgar, his wife (Martha - John's sister) their two sons (Fredk. aged 8 and Albert aged 14, both born in Sussex), daughter (Emily aged 12 and born in Sussex), and two other boarders (Edward Daffern aged 23, born in Warwickshire and a mariner, and John Williams aged 20, born in Worcestershire and a groom, both single) at 83 Princes Road, St James Bermondsey, Surrey.

In the 1891 census as John Young aged 34, born in Shoreham, Surrey (sic - in the index, Surrey on the original), a sailor (seas) and living with his wife (Elizabeth), son (John G) and two daughters (Ellen M and Sarah T) in three rooms at 13 Kintore? Street, Bermondsey St Mary Magdalene, London.

In the 1901 census as John Young aged 43, born in Brighton, Sussex, a waterside labourer and living with his wife (Elizabeth), son (John G), and four daughters (Ellen M, Elizabeth E, Florrie and Sarah J) in three rooms at at 27 Clifton Buildings, St George The Martyr, Southwark, London.

In the 1911 census as John Young Young aged 54 and living with Elizabeth (wife?), John (son?), and Elizabeth, Ellen and Florence (daughters?) in Southwark, London.

His wife died in Southwark in 1919.

Death of John Young in FreeBMD in January-March 1931 aged 73 in Southwark (1d 83).

I cannot identify his wife except she was born in circa 1862 in Brighton.

Relationship

William Young was the first cousin once removed of Ellen, wife of Thomas Paine, my eighth cousin three times removed.

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