Maj. Gen. Charles Frederick Gordon Young

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• Baptism: 10 Jan 1860, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
• Residence: 1871, London; Census probably wrongly identifies CFGY as son of Crawford. He must have been a visitor in 1871
• Military Service: Between 1877 and 1879, South Africa
• Residence: 1912, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• Military Service: Between 1914 and 1920

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His wife's 2nd cousin, he being great-nephew of her grandmother, Lady Elton (born Willis). Son of Colonel Gordon Young (see 'Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' by J.A. Gibbs, 287, n.). Baptised 10 January 1860 at Rawal Pindi. Educated at Bradfield College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

2nd Lieut. 99th Foot Regt. May 1878; Lieut. The Wilts. Regt. (into which the 99th was transferred) Jan. 1880. Served in South Africa 1878-79 (medal & clasp in Zulu war): Joined Indian Army (6th Bengal Light Infantry) 1880; Capt. May 1889; served in China 1900 (medal); Major May 1898; Lieut.-Col. May 1904; Colonel May 1907; Major General September 1912 and commanded Jhansi, Peshawar Infantry and Rangoon Brigades. Awarded 1914-15 Star, British War medal, Allies' (Victory) medal of the Great War.

Retired from Indian Army 1919. He and his wife lived from 1919 at Carringtons, Milford-on-Sea, Hants.

Birth:
Information from his baptism record. Rawalpindi was part of India at that time, I think Father George Gordon Young was Assistant Commissioner of that "place" was it Rawalpindi or Punjab?

Charles married Agnes Hilda Gibbs on 20 Sep 1892 in St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, London. Agnes (daughter of George Louis Monck Gibbs and Laura Beatrice Elton) was born on 4 Sep 1865 in Paddington, London; died on 1 Mar 1934 in London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Capt. Gerald Antony Gordon Young was born on 9 Nov 1895 in Rawal Pindi, Jammu and Kashmir, India; died on 2 Apr 1968.
2. Stanley Charles Gordon Young was born on 4 Apr 1898 in Westminster, London; died on 29 Sep 1928 in London; was buried in Milton-on-Sea, Hants.
3. Iris Hilda Gordon Young was born on 18 Dec 1900 in Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, India; died on 21 Aug 1986 in Horsham, Hampshire.
4. Dorothy Beatrice Gordon Young was born on 27 Nov 1903 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India; died on 13 Nov 1991 in Chichester, Sussex.

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• Baptism: 10 Feb 1837, Walcot, Somerset
• Residence: 1901, Fleet, Hampshire

George married Charlotte Sophia Smith on 5 Oct 1858 in Murree, Bengal, India. Charlotte (daughter of Matthew Smith and Isabella Fraser Morris Hook) was born on 26 Aug 1840 in Agra, Bengal, India; died on 20 Nov 1926 in Lymington, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 13 Sep 1840, Agra, Bengal, India

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• Occupation: Ilmington, Warwickshire; Rector of Ilmington

Julian married Elizabeth Anne Georgina Willis on 26 Apr 1832 in All Souls, St. Marylebone, London. Elizabeth was born in 1815 in Hampton Sowt, Middlesex; died on 5 Apr 1890 in Kensington, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1851, Brighton, Sussex
• Residence: 1871, Tormonham, Devon

Matthew married Isabella Fraser Morris Hook on 13 Mar 1832 in Chinsurah, Bengal, India. Isabella was born in 1808. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Charles Mayne Young (1777–1856), English actor, was the son of an eminent London surgeon. Young's first stage appearance was in Liverpool on 20 September 1798, as the character Young Norval (or the character Douglas according to some of his biographers) in Home's blank verse tragedy Douglas. Young's first London appearance was in 1807 as Hamlet with his friend Charles Mathews playing Polonius. "With the decline of John Philip Kemble, and until the coming of Kean and Macready, he was the leading English tragedian". He retired in 1832 in a farewell performance playing Hamlet with, as a special honour to him, Mathews as Polonius and Macready as the Ghost. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mayne_Young


See also Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 63 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Young,_Charles_Mayne_(DNB00)

Charles married Julia Ann Grimani on 9 Mar 1805 in St. Annes, Liverpool, Lancashire. Julia (daughter of Gasparo Grimani and Cecilia Wagner) was born in 1785 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; died on 17 Jul 1806 in Manchester, Lancashire; was buried in Prestwich Churchyard, Lancashire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From the famous Grimani family of Venice, she was famed for her youthful beauty and talent. Born in Paris and named after Lady Suffolk, by whom she was partly brought up, and of whose daughter, Lady Catherine, she became a close friend. She became an actress, starting at the Theatre Royal in Bath (1800 - 1803), then Haymarket, London (1804) and Liverpool, where she met her husband, Charles Mayne Young, and they were married there in 1805. They played together in Manchester, where their son, Julian Charles, was born in 1806, and where Julia died 10 days later at the age of 21. Charles Mayne Young went on to be a very famous actor.