Young

The Young family are British relatives from Somerset. They originated from the Radstock district of the county. They combined with the Dudman family in 1921, when Stanley Young and Mabel Dudman married, and went on to have four children. They also connected with the Cahill, Kirby, Watts and Carroll families through marriage.

History
The family can be traced back to the Georgian era. The earliest known relative was Stephen Young, who was born in 1775. He went on to marry a woman named Ann Parsons in 1791, and they had two children named Henry and Joshua. Henry married a woman named Maria Seymour in 1820, they went on to have eight children named Mary, Maria, Arthur, Eliza, Joseph, John, William and Ruth. Joshua married twice, his first was Edith Horler, they married in 1820, and went on to have a son named Joshua, who died the same year. Following the death of Edith in 1921, Joshua remarried to Mary Bracey in 1822, and went on to have three children named Henry, Joseph, Margaret and John.