Birth: January-March 1867 Swindon, Wiltshire, UK
Father: William Charles Young 1825-1874
Mother: Sarah Foxley 1834-1902
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Mary L ? c1867-a1910
Death: After 1910
Unknown
Birth of Robert Ernest Young in FreeBMD in January-March 1867 in Highworth (5a 15) which included Swindon.
In the 1871 census as Robert E Young aged 4, born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and living with his parents (William C and Sarah), and living with his three brothers (Alfred J, Charles, and William G) and sisters (Alice M, Anne M and Dovey) at 1 Taunton St, St Marks, New Swindon, Wiltshire.
His father died in 1874.
In the 1881 census as Robert E Young aged 14, born in Swindon, employed as an office boy and living with his widowed mother (Sarah), and three sisters (Amy, Annie and Lillion) at 2 Taunton St, New Swindon, Wiltshire.
Entry in Ancestry U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992 for Robert E Young in California on 10 November 1892.
Entry in the 1910 census for Robert E Young aged 43, born in England, parents born in England, arrived in 1887, naturalized, a hired man - farm laborer out of work for 10 weeks in 1909, living with his wife (Mary L aged 43, born in Missouri, parents born in Missouri and New York and a servant), with William C Crane (aged 37, born in Kansas, parents born in Indiana and Maryland, single, a farmer and employer) and another hired man (George T Montgomery aged 32, born in Minnesota, parents born in Illinois and Michigan, single and a farm laborer out of work 16 weeks in 1909) in Holtville, Imperial, California.
Andrew Peel and five others have entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees born about 1867 in Swindon, Wiltshire, parents William Charles Young and Sarah Foxley. Another entry gives his death in Holborn in 1912, but the registration of death has the wrong age. There are six entries for Robert Earnest Young which add an entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 trial for Robert Young on 6 January 1880 at Devizes Wiltshire for larceny where he was found not guilty, but there is no indication that it was for the same person who would have been on 13.
Robert Ernest Young was the first cousin three times removed of John Peel, husband of Patricia Roberts, Felicity's sixth cousin
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