The
Young Family
of London, Montserrat,
& Virginia
by Joel Watson
According to a letter of Sarah Van Dam, sister of The Reverend George
Young, Sir Tancred Robinson [sic, Robertson] of Toplis [sic Topcliffe],
Yorkshire was a near relation of Dr. John Young's mother. According to a few
family notes and family tradition, Dr. Young was born in 1714 and died on the
island of Montserrat in 1779, and married twice, first to Matilda and secondly to
Jane Haynes ______. Dr. Young had at least three children:
1. Mary Young. Mary married William Darling.
2. Sarah Young
3. George Young
According to the above mentioned letter, Sarah Young, daughter of Dr. John
Young, was, according to what her father had told her, "born within the sound of
the Bow Bells. By looking over the church records you will find two Sarahs, I am
the second." Sarah Young married [Isaac?] Van Dam, a merchant of St.
Eustacius. The family of Isaac Van Dam had emigrated to the colonies in the
early seventeenth century. Sixth child and fourth son of Isaac Van Dam and his
wife Isabelle Pintard, he was baptized April 4, 1736 in Christ Church,
Shrewsbury, New Jersey. His father had been a merchant of Manhattan. His
grandfather Rip Van Dam, had also been a merchant as well as Governor of New
York. His great-grandfather Claase Ripse Van Dam who died about 1693, had
been a carpenter of Beverwyck, later known as Albany. Some of his cousins
were members of the Continental Congress; others signed The Declaration of
Independence; still others as well as in-laws were members of elite society in
New York, Philadelphia as well as London. He was dead before he was forty.
In the letter of 1781 from his wife Sarah to her brother The Reverend George
Young "then in England," Van Dam is mentioned only in his relationship to
Sarah: "Anthony Van Dam's brother's widow." With the fall of Statia, Madame
Sarah Van Dam returned to England, but not without delay. Her ship was
captured by HMS Bellisarius [an American Privateer which had been called
Belisarius, and captured by Capt. Richard Graves] which was in turn captured by
the General Washington bound for France.
The Reverend George Young
The Reverend George Young, son of Dr. John Young and his wife
Matilda _____, was born in 1748 on the island of Montserrat in the West Indies.
He graduated from Oxford around 1765. Licensed December 28, 1775,
[Carribbeana III: 325] he went out January 26, 1776 [Ibid.] "bound for
Virginia" with passage issued from Montserrat [Colonial Clergy en Route to
Virginia]. Apparently Young did not go directly to Virginia, perhaps because of
the Revolution, but went instead to London where from 1784 until 1795 he
served as curate at several London parishes, i.e., St. Anne Limehouse, Poplar,
and St. John Wapping. The Baptismal Register at Wapping was first signed by
Young as "Curate" in June, 1784 and last signed in September of 1795. Several
of his children were born at Wapping parsonage. On the North shore of the
Thames and a little East of London, The Church of St. Anne, Limehouse was in
the Parish of Stepney. Its name was taken from the ancient lime kilns which
were destroyed in 1935. The parish church was founded in 1712 and
consecrated in 1730. It was designed by the great church builder of London,
Nicholas Hawksmoor. Even today it is landmark for ships coming up the
Thames. Poplar was a parish in the Eastern Metropolitan borough of London. It
too is on the North bank of the Thames. Blackwall, the birthplace of Margaret
Young is in the southeast of the borough. The West Indian Docks take the place
of streets in this part of the city. The Church of St. John Wapping was founded
as a chapel of ease in 1617 and rebuilt in 1756 by Joel Johnson of London.
Nearly the whole church was destroyed in an air-raid during World War II. St.
John's possesses a silver plate given by the Duke of Marlborough. The Rectory,
birth place of the Young children, adjoins the Church. The Reverend Francis
Williams, M.D. (1701-1801) who attended King George III in the King's first
attack of insanity was rector at the time Young served as curate. On September
24, 1778 George Young married Margaret, "third daughter and fourth child" of
William Roger Humphreys [Umphreys, Humphries, Umphries] by his wife
Sarah. Margaret Humphreys was born on May 17, 1757 in Blackwall, London.
They were married by The Reverend William Colby, Curate, at the Church of St.
George-in-the-Fields, Middlesex [now St. George-in-the-East, Middlesex,
London]. The then Rector of the Parish, the Reverend Mr. Mayo, was an
authority on witchcraft in London. Just a few years before the marriage, a
"vampire" was killed just outside the church. Young was at the time listed as of
St. Dunstan's Stepney and Margaret of St. George's. John Humphreys [Margaret's
brother?] and Mary Darling [George's sister] were witnesses of the ceremony.
George and Margaret Young came to the new United States of America
sometime after September of 1795. He was ordained a priest by the Right
Reverend James Madison, Bishop of Virginia in 1796. Bishop Madison
(1749-1812) was a second cousin to the President. He had become the first
Bishop of Virginia in 1790. Very soon afterwards his ordination "the vestry" of
North Farnham Parish, Richmond County Virginia "obtained the services of the
Rev. George Young for one Sunday in Three, (the other two being engaged to
the adjoining parish [Lunenburg], agreeing to pay him the sum of $250, besides
the rent of the Glebe. [Vestry Book of North Farnham]. It was during this time
that Mary Ann Dandridge Young, their tenth, who was to be their only child
born in the United States was born, interestingly enough not in the Glebe which
was apparently being rented out at the time, but at Menokin House, the home of
Richard Henry Lee.
Menokin was built for Francis Lightfoot Lee as a generous dowry gift
from his father-in-law, John Tayloe II. Construction began in 1769 and was
completed around 1775. A series of documents written by Tayloe, "entailed" or
prevented Lee from owning the property outright. "This is an arrangement which
is said to have existed often in Colonial Virginia where the bestowal of land and
the building of great houses was concerned." Wells said. "But this is the only
documented case of such an arrangement -- and an extremely well documented
case it is." Menokin is also the only 18th century house for which presentation
drawings -- floor plans and elevations of the house and out buildings -- survive.
Leaving Richmond County, Young became "Minister of Portsmouth
Parish [as he signed a marriage license]", Norfolk County Virginia in 1801. This
is now Trinity Church, Portsmouth. There he remained as Rector until his death
on Sunday, January 13, 1811.
Quoting directly from Moreau de St. Mery's American Journey, of
1793-1798, the very time that young was to be at Trinity, as translated by
Kenneth and Anna M. Roberts [Garden City, Doubleday & Co., 1947],
Portsmouth is directly across from Norfolk, on the left bank of the
Elizabeth River. Its three hundred houses do not border the streets.
They are so spaced that the impression is of wide and beautiful
avenues. These are all grass-covered, and the houses are built of
wood for the most part, though a few extremely pretty ones are
brick.
The Portsmouth market, also built of brick, fronts on the
river. Although small, it is large enough for the town's needs. This
market is on an open square or very wide street which runs to the
outskirts of the town. On the left side of this street going, going up,
is the brick Anglican church, neat and well kept. It has a rood loft,
and benches throughout its entire length. Next to the door, on both
sides, are two benches painted black. These are for blacks, who are
not allowed to mix with the whites.
Prior to American independence, the minister of this church
had a fixed salary of one thousand five hundred dollars (nearly
eight thousand francs). Now he has only his prerequisites and
attractive lodgings."
In the Parish Church there is a memorial plaque in memory of George and
Margaret Young:
THIS MONUMENT is placed here in Sacred Remembrance
of the former pastor of this Church the REVd. GEORGE
YOUNG And his Wife Mrs. MARGARET YOUNG. The former of
whom departed this life On the 13th of January 1811 In
the 63rd Year of his age and was buried in Prince
George County Va. The latter died on the 17th of May
1814 In the 54th year of her age and was interred in
the yard attached to this Church.
"Precious in the sight of the Lord is
the death of his saints."
Unfortunately, Margaret's grave is not marked, and as yet, we not been
able to find Parson Young's grave either.
As of 1855, in an account given by the Rev. Mr. Wingfield, the
information concerning Mr. Young was "given by one of his sons who, with
another brother and their children was then in the parish, living there, and were
members of the church."
According to family tradition, on a hunting trip to Prince George County,
Virginia, Young was taken ill and died on Sunday, January 13, 1811. Due to the
extreme cold his body could not be brought back to Portsmouth and was buried
on the plantation of Mr. Isaac Donaldson of Prince George County.
It was while at Portsmouth Parish that Young supposedly received the
name "the Sporting Parson," and the rumor went out that he loved hunting,
fishing, gambling and drinking." He has been quoted as ending his sermons with
"Brethern, do as I say do and not as I do." The Church of England had little
appeal for Americans after the War for Independence, and for ten years after
Young's death no services were held at Portsmouth Parish. He did solemnize the
marriage of Mr. Edwin Grey and Mrs. Margaret Kearnes in Portsmouth Parish
on December 5, 1802 and on a letter to the Clerk of the Court of Norfolk County
confirming the union placed his signature which can be seen there even today.
Margaret Young died on her birthday, May 17, 1814 and was buried in
Trinity Churchyard. Her funeral was held on May 18, 1814 by the Reverend Mr.
Symes [Robert S. Symes] of Christ Church, Norfolk. George and Margaret
Young had the following children:
1. George Young, Jr.
2. Edward Legay Young
3. Eleanor Sophie Young
4. John Young
5. Henry Augustus Frederick Young
6. Jane Haynes Young, twin to Sarah Young
7. Sarah Young, twin to Jane Haynes Young
8. Anthony Golding Young
9. William Darling Young
10. Mary Ann Dandridge Young
George Young, Jr.
The first child of George and Margaret Young was George Young Jr.,
born at Poplar Parish, London, between the hours of eleven and twelve in the
evening on the Fourth of July, 1779, just three years after American began
fighting for Independence. The sponsors at his baptism at Poplar were Mr. Philip
Parker, Mr. William Darling, Mrs. Sarah Humphries, and Mrs. Jane Young [the
latter two most likely the grandmothers, and in the case of Mrs. Jane Young, the
step-grandmother]. Further research should be done on George Young Jr.
Edward Legay Young
Edward Legay Young, "the second child of the Rev. George Young and
Margaret was born in the Parish of St. Anne's, Limehouse [London] on
Thursday morning between the hours of six and seven, May 14, 1782 and
baptized in the same year." The god-parents were Terry Legay, Mr. Isaac [Van
Dam?], Mrs. Ann [Isabelle Van Dam?], and Mrs. Mary Darling [probably
George Young's married sister].
Young died in his ninety-seventh year in Norfolk, Virginia. At his death
on April 10, 1879 he was totally blind. He with his family are buried in Cedar
Grove Cemetery, in what was a very large vault with the inscription, "EDWAd.
L. YOUNG/1838." Young had a facsinating life.
Edward Legay Young married several times. On November 12, 1818 [see
Norfolk County Bond Book 3, p. 60. Marriage bond made November 9, 1818],
he was married to Harriet H. Colley, the daughter of William and Charlotte
Colley of Norfolk. The rite was conducted by the Reverend Samuel Low, Rector
of Christ Church. There several children by this marriage:
1. John Frederick Young
2. William Colley Young, died April 5, 1832. His funeral was preached by
the Rector of Trinity Church, Portsmouth.
3. Mary Louisa Young, born September of 1828 and baptized by John H.
Wingfield on December 8, 1835.
4. William Henry Young, born in April of 1834 and baptized by John H.
Wingfield on December 8, 1835. He was "of Louisville Kentucky" in 1855.
5. Franklin Jefferson Young, born in September of 1835 and baptized
December 8, 1835 by John Henry Wingfield.
There could have been several other children who died young. as well as:
6. _____ Young, born January 8, 1854, baptized by John H. Wingfield
April 2, 1866. Sponsors were Mary L. Young and Margaret A. Young. Probably
the child of Anne Cornick West [see below].
7. Edward Anthony Golding Young of New Castle, Delaware, of whom
later.
Edward Legay Young married also Anne Cornick West [Bond dated
November 1, 1845 in Book 7, p. 135 of Norfolk County], the daughter of John
West and Anne Cornick of Norfolk, and direct descendent of Sir Thomas West,
2nd Lord de la Warr and his wife Anne Knollys, 1st cousin of Elizabeth the
Queen. Edward L. Young and Anne C. West were married in Norfolk by the
Reverend Upton Beall [Bell, Beale] of Christ Church on November 4, 1845.
Anne West Young died on October 16, 1881 in Hampton, Virginia. Her will is
in Norfolk, Virginia Will Book 9, page 303. Apparently there were no children
by this marriage.
Young traveled a great deal.
John Frederick Young
John Frederick Young, son of Edward Legay and Harriet H. Colley
Young was born in October of 1824 and baptized by the Rev. John Henry
Wingfield of Trinity Church, Portsmouth on December 8, 1835. He married
Emily _____. John F. Young died in January or February of 1880 in Henderson
County, Kentucky [Will in Norfolk, Virginia, Will Book 9, p. 256]. At the time
of his death his wife was Mary T. Young. He had issue:
1. Florence Virginia Young who was born on March 2, 1859 and baptized
on April 2, 1866. Sponsors at her baptism were the parents and Mary Louisa
Young and Margaret A.Young.
2. Edward L. Young, son of John Frederick Young.
William Colley Young
William Colley Young, son of Edward Legay and Harriett H. Colley died
on April 5, 1832. His funeral sermon was preached by the Rector of Trinity
Church, Portsmouth.
Mary Louisa Young, daughter of Edward Legay and Harriett H. Colley
was born in September of 1828 and was baptized on December 8, 1835 by the
Rev. John Henry Wingfield.
William Henry Young, son of Edward Legay and Harriett H. Colley, was
born in April of 1834 and baptized by the Rev. John Henry Wingfield on
December 8, 1835 along with his siter Mary Louisa. He was of Louisville,
Kentucky in 1855.
Franklin Jefferson Young was born in September of 1835 and baptized by
the Rev. John Henry Wingfield on December 8, 1835 with his brother and sister
above.
Another child of Edward Legay Young was Edward A. G. Young of
New Castle, Delaware. his family was later of Philadelphia, Pennsylavnia.
[Cornelius A. Young? or] Another child of Edward Legay and Harriett H.
Colley was born on January 8, 1854 and baptized April 2, 1866. Sponsors at the
baptism were Mary L. Young and Margaret A. Young. The child was baptized
by the Rev. Mr. Wingfield.
Eleanor Sophie Young
Eleanor Sophie Young, "third child of George Young and Margaret was
born on Monday, March 8, 1784, between the hours of seven and eight in the
parish of St. Anne's, Middlesex, and baptized in the same year." Sponsors at the
baptism were Mr. John Humphries [Margaret Young's brother?], [the Rev.?] Mr.
George Davis, Mrs. Mary Haddon, and Mrs. Elizabeth Trotsey. No further
research has been done on Eleanor Sophie Young.
John Young
John Young, fourth child of George and Margaret Young was born "in the
Parish of St. John of Wapping, Middlesex, January 11, 1787, a Thursday
evening at eight o'clock and baptized February 22, 1787 in the said parish."
Sponsors at the baptism were John Camden, John Manglis, Esq., Mrs. Mary
Ann Camden, and Mrs. Mary Roberts. John Young died on October 27, 1814 at
the age of 27 and was buried in the West Indies. No further research has been
done on John Young.
Henry Augustus Frederick Young
Henry Augustus Frederick Young, fifth child of George and Margaret
Young was born at Wapping Parsonage [adjacent to the Parish Church] on
February 24, 1789 and was baptized on April 30 of the same year in the Parish
Church. His sponsors were Mr. Peter Taylor, Mrs. Henry Mears, Mr. Henry
Mears, and _____ _____. Henry A. F. Young was the progenitor of the Johnston
family of Norfolk, Virginia. He owned a pew in Portsmouth Parish Church and
the deed to this pew with his attached signature is in the possession of the
Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, Virginia. At one time he served on the
Vestry of Portsmouth Parish. As of May, 1849 Young was still a communicant
of Trinity Church and living in Portsmouth. Henry Young was appointed to the
United States Navy and served in the War of 1812. He was a Captain. He retired
from the Navy in 1856 at the age limit and resigned from his post several years
later, around 1862 when Virginia seceded from the United States. He then cast
his fortune with his adopted state. It is said that “his resignation was unique, his
alleged reason being that he did not want to receive a gratuity from a
government with which he had no sympathy.” He and his family moved to
Washington, D.C. It was in Washington that he and his wife died. Henry died on
March 1, 1872. His body was returned to Portsmouth where he was interred. He
was eighty-three. Henry Young married Margaret Cecilia Barr in 1810. It should
be noted that in the Norfolk Argus of September 22, 18__ it is written, "died on
this afternoon in Portsmouth at the residence of sailing master H A F Young of
the U. S. Navy Mrs. Celia Stewart, aged 83 years." Young and his wife had the
following children:
1. Henrietta Young
2. Augusta Jackson Young
3. Mary Eliza Brooks Young
4. Jane Haynes Young
5. Henry Augustus Frederick Young Jr.
6. Margaret Cecilia Young
7. Alexina Claudia Young
8. an infant who died in 1832
Henrietta Young was baptized at Trinity Church, Portsmouth by the Rev.
John Henry Wingfield on Christmas Day, 1826. Her parents were her sponsors.
According to The Beacon of February 12, 1838: "Died in Portsmouth 10 of
February 1838 Henrietta, daughter of H.A.F. Young."
Jane Haynes Young, daughter of Henry Augustus Frederick Young and
his wife Margaret Cecilia Barr was born in 1830 and baptized by the Rev. John
H. Wingfield at Trinity Church, Portsmouth on September 18, 1831.
Henry Augustus Frederick Young, Jr. was born in 1832 and baptized by
John H. Wingfield on September 26, 1832. He was confirmed by the Rt. Rev.
William Channing Moore of Virginia in July of 1842.
Margaret Cecilia Young, daughter of Henry A. F. and Margaret C. Young
was born in 1816 and baptized by John H. Wingfield on April 20, 1846 [1816?].
She married Algernon Sidney Worth on January 9, 1834. Witness of the
marriage was her father. The ceremony was performed by John H. Wingfield in
Portsmouth. They lived in Gosport. They had at least one child,
1. Henry Augustus Frederick Worth who was baptized by John H.
Wingfield on January 1, 1839. His sponsors were the grandparents Henry and
Margaret Young, Sidney and Josephine Worth.
Alexina Claudia Young, daughter of Henry and Margaret Young was
born March 20, 1833. She was privately baptized at an unknown date. She
married on November 19, 1866 by John H. Wingfield [who was paid $25 by
Smith] to William Sharp Smith, a native of Baltimore and a resident of
Portsmouth. He was the son of John P. and Hannah T. Smith. Smith was an
Ensign in the Navy. The couple had at least one child,
1. Lizzie Edith Smith, born August 11, 1869, baptized October 23, 1869
by John H. Wingfield. Sponsors at thebaptism were the parents, Lizzie Young,
and Henry A. F. Young.
Augusta Jackson Young was born in 1825 and baptized with her sister
Henrietta on Christmas Day, 1826 in Trinity Church by the Rev. John Henry
Wingfield. She was confirmed by the Rt. Rev. William Meade, Bishop of
Virginia on April 8, 1848 at Trinity Church, Portsmouth. According to The
Argus of June 8, 1850, "Married on Wednesday afternoon by the Rev. J. H.
Wingfield, Mr. R. M. Johnston of this city to Miss Augusta J., daughter of
H.A.F. Young USN of Portsmouth." According to Trinity Church records, the
marriage was on June 5, 1850 with Thomas Brooks as a witness. Robert Moses
Johnston was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on November 15, 1859. His father,
Robert M. Johnston was a farmer and had been Sheriff of Princess Anne several
times having been born in Princess Anne County, Virginia in 1809 and died in
1864. His grandfather James J. Johnston, a native of Scotland, was a
boat-builder by trade. By their marriage they had issue:
1. Robert Moses Johnston, born in May of 1851 and
baptized by the Rev. John Henry Wingfield at Trinity,
Portsmouth on October 28, 1851. His sponsors were his mother
and his grandfather, Henry A. F. Young. He must have died
quite young, for later another son Robert was born.
2. James Johnston was born August 14, 1856 and baptized
by John H. Wingfield at Trinity on May 8, 1857. His sponsors
were his mother and Mrs. Margaret Worth [Margaret Cecilia
Young, daughter of Henry A. F. Young].
3. Henry A[nthony?] G[olding?] Johnston
4. William Darling Johnston who was born January 4,
1862 and baptized by John H. Wingfield on September 5, 1862.
His sponsors were Mary Eliza Young and his mother.
5. Margaret Stewart Johnston, born January 5, 1858 and
baptized at Trinity by John H. Wingfield on April 5, 1858.
His baptism was private, and his mother and Mary Young were
his sponsors.
6. Robert Johnston [second son of this name] was born
in Portsmouth, Virginia on November 15, 1859. He removed
with his parents to Washington, D.C. in 1864 and attended
public schools there until 1874 when he was appointed to a
position as a messenger in the United States Treasury
Department. He attended lectures at the Law School of
Georgetown University and graduated in 1880. He became
president of Old Dominion Paper Co., Norfolk, Virginia in
1884 and was a member of the Masonic A.F. & A.M. having been
treasurer of the Blue Lodge for many years. He was a member
of the First Presbyterian Church. He married Minnie Fuller.
They had issue:
1. Robert Simpson Johnston, President of Old
Dominion Paper Co. He married and had issue:
1. Elizabeth Alson Johnston. She married JohnB. Darden and had issue:
1. Elizabeth Ann Darden, born April 24, 1948.
2. John B. Darden, Jr. , born 1951
2. Emily Fuller Johnston who married Capt.William B. Brooks, USN.
They had issue:
1. Elizabeth Atlee Brooks
2. Henry Alan Johnston, born in Washington, D.C. October 27, 1884 and
died in August of 1956. He married on January 27, 1914, Katherine H.
Dickson who died in 1947. He married secondly, Helene Swatkowsky on
October 23, 1950. Henry received his AB from Davidson College, N.C. in
1903, his AM from Princeton in 1904 and his LLB from the University of
Virginia in 1909. He was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1909 and was a
member of the firm of Clark, Carr & Ellis. He was a Director of the
Industrial Bank of Commerce of New York, Bankers Security Life
Insurance Society, a Legal Advisor to United Kingdom-United States Steel
Control Group, Duesseldorf, Germany. Director Barter Theater of
Virginia, Inc. Served as Lt. US Navy, Chairman US Navy Board for
Commandeering 1917-1919. An Alderman of the City of Norfolk,
1910-1912. Director and Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation. Member of the American Bar Association, the Bar
of the City of New York, National Institute of Social Sciences, Phi Beta
Kappa, Kappa Alpha, Phi Delta Phi, Delta Sigma Rho. He was a
Presbyterian, a Mason and various clubs. He was author of What Rights
Are Left, 1930 and many articles. Henry and Helene made their home at
40 East 62nd Street, New York City. By Katherine, Henry had issue:
1. William Dickson Johnston who married Jessie
2. Mary Petty Johnston who married Wood Bedell
3. Lulie Augusta Johnston married Rear Admiral Joseph Knefler
Taussig, USN who was born in Dresden, Germany on August 30, 1877 to
Rear Admiral Edward David Taussig and his wife Ellen Knefler. Taussig
participated in the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the
Boxer Campaign, Cuban Pacification, World War I and others. Recalled to
active duty in June of 1943, Office of the Secretary of the Navy, Navy
Department in 1945. He was Chairman of Hampton Roads Sanitation
Commission. He died October 29, 1947. They had issue:
1. Emily Johnston Taussig who married Lt.
Col. Henry Wadsworth Whitney, USN.
2. Margaret Stewart Taussig who married Lt.
Cmdr. George Phillips, USN.
3. Joseph Knefler Taussig, Jr., was born in Newport, Rhode Island on May
28, 1920. He married on December 2, 1943, Betty Bostwick Carney,
daughter of Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney, Chief of Naval Operations
[born March 26, 1895, in Vallejo, California, son of Robert Emmett
Carney and Bertha V. H. Bostwick. See Current Bio. 1951, pp. 97-99 for
further information] and his wife Grace Stone Crayfroft who he had
married on September 7, 1918. Betty B. Carney had a brother Robert B.
Carney, Jr. Taussig received his B.S. from the United States Naval
Academy in 1941 and his J.D. with honors from George Washington
University. As of 1989, he and his family made their home at 400 Ridgely
Avenue, Annapolis, Maryland 21401. They had issue:
1. Joseph Knefler Taussig, III
2. Emily Taussig
3. Margaret Taussig
4. Susan Taussig who married _____ Graves
4. Emily Fuller Johnston who married in 1911, Joshua Warren White, MD.
Dr. White was born in Charlotte County, Virginia in 1875 to Capt. Joshua
Warren White and Bessie Morton. Dr. White attended V.P.I.,
Hampton-Sidney College and the Medical College of Virginia. They lived
at 527 Fairfax Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia [See Who's Who in America,
Volume 3, page 910]. Emily Fuller Johnston White was a delight. They
had issue:
1. Joshua Warren White Jr. who was born August 27, 1916. He married
on August 31, 1940, Dorothy Lee Winstead. Dorothy was born April 26,
1918. They had:
1. Joshua Warren White III, born October 14,
1941.
2. Dorothy Lee White, born May 11, 1948.
3. William Carr White, born July 7, 1949.
4. Emily Johnston White, born May 1, 1953.
2. Alan Johnston White married Patricia Patee and
had issue:
1. Dianne Patee White, born January 14, 1961.
2. Alan Johnston White Jr., born August 5, 1963.
3. Robert Johnston White
Jane Haynes and Sarah Young
Jane Haynes and Sarah Young, the twin daughters of George and
Margaret Young were born at Wapping Parsonage at seven in the morning on
April 14, 1791 and baptized on November 14 of the same year. Sponsors at the
baptisms were the Rev. George Davis, the Rev. Mr. Griffiths, Miss Catherine
Van Dam and Miss Ann Isabelle Van Dam [children of Sarah Young and Isaac
Van Dam?]. Sarah died December 24, 1791 and her twin sister Jane Haynes
Young died August 27, 1829. According to Norfolk's American Beacon of April
15, 1816, "married last evening by the Rev. Robert S. Syms, Mr. James Baker of
New York to Miss Jane H. Young, daughter of the late Rev. George Young of
Portsmouth. No further research has been done.
Anthony Golding Young
Anthony Golding [or Golden] Young, eighth child of George and
Margaret Young was born on Thursday at seven in the evening of February 21,
1793 in Wapping Parish. He was baptized on February 28, 1794 in Wapping
Church. His sponsors were Mr. Anthony Van Dam, Mr. Anthony Hooper, Mrs.
Ann Battersby and Mrs. Mary Pepwell. "Married in Currituck County, North
Carolina on Thursday evening the 17th instant [November] Mr. Anthony G.
Young, to Miss Christiana Redman [daughter of Harman and Margaret Redman
of Norfolk], both of this Borough" [Norfolk/Portsmouth Herald November 22,
1820. They had a son who died June 13, 1824 in the twenty-fifth month of his
life [born May, 1822?]. Anthony G. Young died in his 29th year on November
30, 1822.
William Darling Young
William Darling Young, "my ninth child," was born at Wapping,
Middlesex "on Monday evening January 5th, 1795, ten minutes before eight."
His name was taken in compliment to a good friend of Young's, Mr. William
Dalmeida. The "Darling" was probably from Young's sister's husband, William
Darling. Sponsors at the baptism which took place on November 5, 1795 were
Mr. William Dalmeida, George Young, Jr., Mrs. Sarah Sherman, and Mrs.
Sarah Stevens.
In Norfolk, Virginia, on September 15, 1819, William Darling Young
married Mary Ann Redman, daughter of Harman and Margaret Redman of
Norfolk. The Reverend Parson Holstead officiated. William D. Young died on
June 6 (Trinity Church records say June 7), 1860 in Norfolk, Virginia and was
buried in Portsmouth. One of his children had a memorial put in the paper,
Dearest Father, thou hast left us,
Here thy loss we deeply feel.
But til God's that has befret us,
He can all out troubles heal.
Harman Redman died on October 18, 1819 in Norfolk, Virginia at the
age of 56. His will is in Norfolk City Wills, dated April 26, 1820. His wife
Margaret died on March 24, 1844 at the age of 74. Both lived in Norfolk and are
buried there in Cedar Grove Cemetery. They had the following children:
1. Mary Ann Redman, born July 20, 1799 in Norfolk, Virginia. She
married William Darling Young. Mary Ann Redman Young was left all of her
Father's personal property by his will.
2. Christian Redman who married first Anthony Golding Young and
secondly James Baker of Norfolk [Relative of Timothy Bloodworth Baker?] For
issue by Young, see above. She and James Baker had a son
a. Henry Wingfield Ducachet Baker, born December 28, 1830 and
baptized February 13, 1831 in Christ Church, Norfolk.
3. Margaret S. Redman who died May 9, 1891 at the age of 78 in
Norfolk, Virginia. She married on at Christ Church, Norfolk on July 1, 1837 to
Capt. Joseph Page Anderson of Norfolk, born October 31, 1813 and died April
7, 1864. They had issue:
a. Joseph Page Anderson, born March 19, 1855 and died July8, 1931.
Buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk.
b. Walter G. Anderson, born 1841 and died 1855.
c. Virginia Brook Anderson, born April 16, 1860 and died October 3,
1941.
d. Sarah Eliza Anderson, born July 3, 1850 and died February 24, 1922.
4. Eliza Ann Redman, born February 14, 1815 and died February 28,
1884.
5. Henry Redman who died as an infant.
6. Susan Redman
7. Catherine Margaret Redman who died September 29, 1855. William
Darling Young and Mary Ann Redman his wife had issue:
1. Moses Paul Young
2. Amanda Caroline Young
3. Julia Ann Jones Young
4. Catherine Virginia Young
5. Margaret A. Young
6. Mary Jane Young
7. George Legay Young
8. William Henry Young
9. Richard Channing Moore Young
Moses Paul Young was born October 8, 1822 and baptized by John Henry
Wingfield in Trinity Church, Portsmouth on May 13, 1832. He was confirmed at
Portsmouth on August 13, 1865 by the Rt. Rev. John Johns of Virginia. On
February 8, 1844 he married Virginia P. Hardy, the daughter of the Rev. Isaac
H. Hardy. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Reed Hardy. It is
interesting to note that Moses Paul Young owned one on the only piano-fortes
in Norfolk during the War between the States. As of 1865 he was a
communicant of Trinity Church but only communed once in that year. When St.
John's Church [a congregation that left Trinity over churchmanship] began he
became a member of that parish. He was an assistant engineer in the
Confederate Navy. Moses and Virginia Young had issue:
1. Claude Darling Young, baptized by the Rev. J. D.
Powell of St. John's Church on July 18, 1872. Sponsors were
R. E. Freeman and Mrs. Claudia Freeman. He died July 22,
1872. [I have record that he was born August 1, 1872?]. He
was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk.
2. Paul Young, born September of 1871 and baptized "in
extremis" by the Rev. J. D. Powell on June 8, 1872. There
was a note in the baptismal register that the parents are
falsely alarmed. He died in a few hours.
3. Virginia Hardy Young, died September 24, 1872 and
buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Amanda Caroline Young, daughter of William and Margaret Young was
born May 13, 1840 and baptized by John H. Wingfield on April 20, 1840. She
was confirmed by the Rt. Rev. John Johns on May 10, 1869. She married Robert
L. Smith, son of Jesse P. and C. A. Smith of Petersburg. Robert was born in
1840. He was a printer in Portsmouth. The marriage took place on September
21, 1875 and the ceremony performed by the Rev. J. D. Powell of St. John's at
the residence of Mrs. Margaret Anderson in Portsmouth.
Julia Ann Jones Young, daughter of William D. and Margaret R. Young
was born on April 20, 1840 and was baptized by the Rev. John H. Wingfield at
Trinity Church, Portsmouth on May 13,1840. She was confirmed by the Rt.
Rev. John Johns on May 10, 1869. She married Robert L. Smith, son of Jesse P.
and C. A. Smith of Petersburg, Virginia. Smith who was born in 1840 was a
printer in Portsmouth, Virginia. The marriage took place on September 21, 1875
at the residence of Mrs. Margaret Anderson [probably the mother-in-law of
William Darling Young]. The Rev. J. D. Powell, Rector of St. John's Church,
Portsmouth officiated.
Catherine Virginia Young, daughter of William and Margaret Young was
born April 3, 1826 and baptized on June 18, 1826 by the Rev. Doct Duchea at
Christ Church, Norfolk, Virginia. Her parents were her godparents. She died on
August 20, 1850 at the age of 24 and was buried in Portsmouth. The following
obituary was found in a Norfolk paper of August 20, 1850 found as a clipping in
a Bible belonging to James Aetius Savedge of Littleton, Virginia:
Again the fell destroyer of our race-- the terror of
the age-- long fingered consumption has been in our midst
and cut down one of the loveliest flowers that ever bloomed
in the garden of female purity. Another vacuum has been
formed in the house-hold. Again young maidens are again
summoned to surround the dying couch of a much loved
companion and friend; Christians are again called to witness
another glorious triumph of their faith, in the exit of a
happy soul from the realms below to her happier home beyond
the skies, in the demise of MISS CATHERINE VIRGINIA the
daughter of Mr. WILLIAM D. YOUNG, who departed this life on
Monday morning at three o'clock.
The object of this notice was a lady of remarkable
amiability of character, liveliness of person, and
possessing deportment, who through her affectionate nature,
kind of heart, and charitable disposition, had won the love
and esteem of a large circle of friends and acquaintances,
who deeply deplore her early demise of one around whom such
tender and much loved associations clung.
To her heart-broken relatives we offer our most sincere
condolence, but they grieve not as those without hope,
knowing as they do that their dear child and sister has been
gathered to her home in Abrahman's bosom where "the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary are at rest." For she
died as she lived-- a practical Christian.
To her parents this blow is particularly severe and
crushing for similar affections have come upon them so they
they can exclaim with the poet:
Oh! Ever thus from childhood's hour
We've seen our fondest hopes decay;
We've never loved a tree or flower
Which was not first to fade away.
Another child of William D. and Margaret Young was Margaret Ann
Young, born July 15, 1820 and died May 11, 1888. She was confirmed by the
Rt. Rev. Richard Channing Moore, D. D. in April, 1842. She married Joshua B.
Goodwin, died at the age of 81 on February 11, 1900, the son of Willis and Sarah
Goodwin of Norfolk. Goodwin was a dentist and surgeon of Norfolk. They were
married at Trinity Church, Portsmouth by the Rev. John Henry D. Wingfield
with the Rev. John Henry Wingfield as assistant on May 29, 1867. Goodwin paid
the Rector $10 for his services. As of May 1852, Margaret and her husband were
communicants of Trinity. Goodwin had first married Margaret's sister Margaret
J. Young who died April 1, 1844. Margaret and Joshua moved to North Carolina
in 1867.
Margaret J. Young, daughter of William D. and Margaret Young was forn
on January 14, 1822 and baptized by the Rt. Rev. Richard Channing Moore who
would later confirm her and her sister Margaret Ann Young in April of 1842.
Margaret married Joshua B. Goodwin on May 28, 1842. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. John Henry Wingfield of Trinity Church. Margaret died
on April 1, 1844 and Joshua would marry her sister in 1867.
George Legay Young, son of William D. and Margaret Young was born
in November of 1832 and died at the age of nine months on August 23, 1833.
The funeral was held at Christ Church, Norfolk, Virginia.
William Henry Young, son of William D. and Margaret Young was born
May 11, 1824 and baptized by John H. Wingfield. He died on March 30, 1825.
The last child of William D. and Margaret Young was Richard Channing
Moore Young It was Richard C. M. Young who gave the Bible to his parents
which contained much of the information on this family [this Bible was last
known to have been in the possession of Mrs. J. Warren White of Norfolk who
is now deceased]. Young was born on September 17, 1828. He was baptized by
the Bishop of Virginia, The Right Reverend Richard Channing Moore [for
whom he was named] at Christ Church, Norfolk on November 9, 1828. The
parents were the godparents. Young never married, but worked for his parents in
their Portsmouth store. He died of Yellow Fever in the horrible epidemic of
1855. He died according to his obituary-poem on September 14, but other
records say September 20. In his book on the History of Trinity Church
Portsmoth, then Rector, now Retired Bishop of Southern Virginia Claude
Charles Vache wrote:
The Yellow fever epidemic of 1855 occured when Portsmouth
was a town of approximately 10,000 inhabitants. According to
estimates about 4,000 of these remained in the town, about evenly
divided between negro and white. Of the two-thousand white
inhabitants remaining 1,080 are known to have died of the fever.
Twenty members of the congregation died, four of whom were
communicants and one of the four a vestryman, Richard Channing
Moore Young, a descendant of the fourth rector of this parish.
The usual vestry resolution of sympathy was passed in December of
1855, there having been no vestry meeting since July of that
year. The resolution contained, for the first time, "Resolved,
that in token of out respect for the deceased we (the vestry)
will wear the usual badge of mourning for the space of thirty
days" which custom was continued until 1874.
In a Norfolk paper on March 22, 1856 were printed the following lines:
WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF MR. R. C. YOUNG
Thou art sleeping, lowly sleeping,
Where the winds are moaning by;
Sad and lonely are the dirges,
As above thy hear they sigh.
Ceaseless requiems are they singing,
In a weird and mourning strain;
But their wailing sound will never;
Fall upon they ear again.
Lost to all thy dreams of fortune,
Withered in their time of Spring;
Blissful joyous youth could never,
Ward from them the archer's sting.
Yet we know that thou art happy,
That an angel's harp is thine;
That beyond the deep deep ether,
Numbers that are all divine
Thou art singing, sweetly singing,
And we would not call thee back;
Would not have thy steps to wander,
O're life's dark and broken track.
Fare thee well dear friend and cherished,
'Tis a long farewell we say;
We will meet no more forever,
Till the Resurrection Day.
Young's brother Moses Paul Young would write from Portsmouth to his
cousin Mary Ann Elizabeth Adams on November 26, 1855,
Pa grieves much. Sis and Ma also, I have been expecting for some
time that Pa would make himself sick. We miss our poor dear
brother so much. Whenever we turn about the house or store we see
something that reminds us of the dear departed one. His whole life
seemed to have been marked out by some act of kindness and
affection. When I was so sick in Norfolk I used to dream most
every night that I saw him in the store attending to his duties
same as ever and dream that I had only dreamed of death and that
it was not so in reality but also when I awake I find they are
idle fancies and only kindled out hopes to plunge us the deeper in
dispair. I have often regretted that I did not die first and even
on my sick bed when I first was taken was so wicked as to hope
that I might die, but since I have recovered and see around the
same poor drunkened worthless characters whlie out best citizens
and friends were cut off I think that we have been spared for some
wise purpose, for the Lord ordained it so no doubt, he knows best
and the grevious to us poor mortals tis done for our good...
Mary Ann Dandridge Young
Mary Ann Dandridge Young was the only child of George and Margaret
Young born in the United States. She was born their tenth child, not in the Glebe
which was apparently being rented out, but at Menokin House, Richmond
County Virginia, the home of Richard Henry Lee on November 16, 1797,
between the hours of seven and eight o'clock in the evening. She was baptized
by the Reverend Mr. Sim [Robert S. Symes] of Christ Church, Norfolk on
December 12, 1811 [according to the Birth Register of Norfolk, County, Book
3, p. 109, she was baptized December 12, 1797].
Mary Ann Dandridge Young’s’s birth place, Menokin was the home of
Francis Lightfoot Lee. Lee was born at Stratford on October 14, 1734 and
educated at home by a private tutor. It is quite possible that Margaret’s father
George Young was tutor for some of the Lee children at Menokin. Frank Lee had
no taste for public life, though he did serve as a representative of Loudon County
at the House of Burgeses in 1765, and the following year he signed the
Westmoreland Resolutions. He married Rebecca Tayloe in April of 1769.
Shortlly thereafter, they moved into their home in Richmond County. Frank Lee
named Menokin. It is an indian name.
Mary Ann Dandridge Young married on March 28, 1824 in Norfolk,
Virginia [at Christ Church?] William Clements Adams (born 1796) of Surry
County, Virginia. He was the son of William Adams and Hannah, daughter of
John Judkins of Surry. William C. Adams, an overseer, died in the morning of
September 9, 1873 "in the hope of rest eternal." The Rev. William Wicks
[Weeks] performed the ceremony. According to the return address of a letter
from Mary A.D. Young Adams to her daughter, the couple lived near Cabin
Point, Surry County, Virginia. Mary Ann Dandridge Young Adams died on
February 14 (some notes say February 15), 1853 at the age of 55. They had
issue:
1. Margaret Hannah Adams, [named for the two grandmothers?]
born August 23, 1825 between the hours of 8 and 9, and died on
August 21, 1826.
2. Sarah Jane Adams, born February 4, 1828, and died August 3, 1829.
3. William Antony [Anthony?] Adams, born March 25, 1837 and
baptized by the Rev. Mr. Northam. He "had the measles and the
whooping cough in 1843."
4. Mary Anne Elizabeth Baker Adams, of whom we shall write later.
5. Henry Wingfield Adams, of whom we shall write later.
6. Margaret Wingfield Adams, of whom we shall write later.
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