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Young family history
For more information, see http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=girlmommy&recno=0 ,where I have posted the full family tree taht I've compiled. For even more information, see the very extensive family tree posted at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pitts488&id=I985
The Young family can be traced to Elias YOUNG, born in Voluntown, CT in 1762. He served in the Revolutionary War in 1782 under Cowell's "Spirit of '76". He married Hannah WATSON, and they had a son, Northrup Watson YOUNG (the beginning of a long-standing family tradition of giving boys in the family the middle name of Watson). Northrup married Olive BLY. Olive's paternal grandmother Joanna CARR's family can can be traced back to the 1500's in England. Her great-great-grandfathers included a deputy governor of the Colonies, John GREENE (whose line can be traced to Alexander, first Baron de Greene de Boketon, born in France in 1182, and whose great-great-grandson Sir Thomas de Greene married a member of the European royal family, the Lady Lucy la Zouche, whose lineage goes back to William the Conquerer); and Robert CARR, the founder of Portsmouth, RI and one of the purchasers of Jamestown. Northrup and Olive had 11 children, the fifth being Robert (sometimes spelled "Robard") Watson YOUNG, born in 1821. He married Polly GOULD, and they had a son, Elias, in 1843. Elias had two children from a first marriage, then married Christina PUTNAM and had 5 children, the eldest being Robert Watson YOUNG in 1875. Robert married Elise NEWELL and had two children, Harold and Dorothea, then married Emeline Bertha Louise DAY-EASTMAN. Emeline was the daughter of Emma DAY of North Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. After her mother's death in 1892, Emeline was adopted by Sarah EASTMAN, a neighbor and widow. Robert and Emeline married in 1909 and had six sons; Clayton, Donald, Robert, DeForest, Horace, and Maynard. As of 1997, their family included 82 living descendants, including 17 adopted children. The descendants of Robert Watson Young and Emeline Day have had an annual family reunion in upstate NY every year since 1948. For more information, see www.robertwyoung.com .
Thank you to the great research done by Paula Pitts and the late Mary Caldwell, posted on rootsweb at the second address above.
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Robert W. Young and Emeline Day
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DeForest Frederick Young during WWII
My grandfather served in Europe, was at the Battle of the Bulge and stormed the beach at Normandy. |
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Tenanty/Tenity and Roe history
Patrick TENANTY and Bridget HOEY were born in Ardee, County Louth, Ireland, and had four sons and a daughter. Their second son, Patrick TENITY (1813-1896), emigrated to America in 1843 with his parents, and married another Irish immigrant, Bridget MC GINN (1826-1891) in 1849. The fourth of their seven children, Patrick "Hugh" Tenity (1855-1928) was born in Union Springs, New York and married Margaret SCHOONMAKER (1862-1929). They had eight children. Their third daughter, Catherine ("Kitty") died at age four after an eleven-day illness, in 1888. Their seventh child, Agnes (1893-1960), left home for Buffalo, New York as a teenager, where she adopted the name Katherine HICKEY, after her late sister and presumably the last name of a family with whom she boarded. While there, she met John Thomas ROE (1888-1939), and they married and had six children.
To the left is a picture of "Katherine" Agnes Tenity Roe, ca. 1911.
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John Thomas Roe and sons Bernard and Edward working the family farm, ca. 1930's
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Edward, Marion, Katherine, and Margaret Roe, cir. 1932
John Thomas Roe and "Katherine" Agnes Tenity's second child, Marion Elizabeth ROE (1915-1992), married Robert Watson YOUNG (1915-1987), third son of Robert Watson and Emeline YOUNG. Their third child, Katherine Agnes ROE (1923-1977) married DeForest Frederick YOUNG (1917-1990). |
DeForest and Katherine Roe Young, ca. 1945
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But the Irish are not only quarrelers, and rioters, and fighters, and drinkers, and bigots--they are a passionate, impulsive, warm-hearted, generous people, much given to powerful indignations...pestilent sympathizers, too... ~~Fanny Kemble, regarding her concern that the Irish would side with slaves and become abolitionists~~ |
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