Adam Young
ID # 8050, (1835-1892)
| Birth | Adam Young was born in 1835 at Germany. |
| Marriage | He married Catherine Horn on 29 January 1861 at Waterloo County. MS248 reel 16, vol. 75, Page 60 Waterloo County Marriage Register Extracted from a list of marriages solemnized by Rev. Fred Ehinger, a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church for the year ending 31 December, 1861. Adam Young 26, born illegible, but apparently Germany. Residing Normanby, which was stroked out and Saugeen written in above. Parents Nichol Young and Margt Tick. Catherine Horn, 20, born illegible, but in Hesse. Residing Wellesley. Parents Henry Horn and Margarethe Hamel. Witnesses Valentin Ruhel and Jakob Nurgarth, both of Wilmot. On Jan 29, 1861 (possibly Jan 19). |
| Marriage | He married Barbara Gabel on 26 April 1864 at Grey County. The following marriage is poorly indexed, to some extent caused by overwritten check marks. Still, there is enough to say that it is indeed Adam and Barbara. MS248 reel 6, Vol. 13, pp 96-97 Grey County Marriage Register. Extracted from a list of marriages solemnized by Christian Behrens, a minister of the German Lutheran Church for the year ending 31st day of December, A.D. 1864. Adam Jung, 30, born Nimken(?), residing Normanby. Parents Adam Jung and Margaretha Dhik. Barbara Golbel, 19, born Elischhausen, residing Normanby. Parents George Golbel and Barbara Kreuzer. Witnesses Jacob Weber and Katherina Weber, both of Normanby. On Apr. 26, 1864. |
| Death | He died on 10 June 1892 at Port Elgin, Bruce County, Ontario. |
| Burial | He was buried at Sanctuary Park Cemetery, Port Elgin, Bruce County. |
| Note | Adam Jung/Young was married twice. Initially, this was uncertain, but there is now enough information to say that this is the case. He appears in the 1861 cesus in Normanby Township of Grey County. He is shown as a carpenter, age 26, and born in Germany. With him is Catharine, age 21, also born Germany. They have no children. This implies a recent marriage. We do not have a place or date of death or Catherine or a place of burial. Add to that, it is thanks only to the efforts of a descendant and correspondent that a record of marriage for Adam and Barbara has been found. There is just enough in common between both registrations to say that Catherine and Barbara are the two wives of Adam. What is safe to say that the list of children we have for Adam, beginning with the 1871 census, are all the children of Barbara. If Catherine had a child, a record has yet to be found. The one possibility for such would be a church record. Adam and Barbara appear in the 1871 census in Normanby Township, Grey County. He is a carpenter and is shown as 37. Barbara is shown as 27. Both are said to be born in Germany. With them are children John age 6, Katharina age 4, Jacob age 2, and Maria age 1. By 1881 the family is in Saugeen Township of Bruce County. They have four more children. In the 1891 census they are still in Saugeen Township. Here, they are shown as Methodists. This may be an error. Consider Adam's death registration, which is unusual. Adam's death registration actually appears twice on the same page. The first one has a note below it stating that it's copied from the slip of the medical practitioner. It provides his name with no date of death; there is no age or place of birth shown. The physician, Dr. H. Becker, is shown both as physician and informant. The cause of death is shown as Hepatic abscess. This has been numbered by the Archives of Ontario as 001898-92. Then on the same page is the following: Death reg. 001900-92 Port Elgin, Bruce County Adam Young died 10th June 1892. Age 57 years. Farmer. Born Germany. Cause of death abscess of liver. Physician Dr. H. Becker. Informant G. F. Schwarz, underneath which is written Pt. Elgin minister. Adam's religious association is shown as Evangelical Association. At the bottom is written copied from slip. The name of the informant, G. F. Schwarz, rather more looks like G. F. Schnarr. Son William, born a year before Adam's death, showed the name of the informant - and rather more clearly - as G. F. Schwarz. A closer examination of the handwriting on Adam's death registration makes it clear enough that the name was Schwarz. Adam's date of death, June 10th, 1892, as it appears on his death registration agrees with his date of death as shown on his gravestone in Sanctuary Park Cemetery at Port Elgin. A transcription of this stone is provided by the Bruce-Grey branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. Note that his place of death is shown as being Port Elgin, which is in Saugeen Township. Saugeen, however, had its own registrar. Port Elgin had a separate registrar. This (or these) two registrations should mean that he died in Port Elgin. This may not be entirely accurate. As for the family's location in Saugeen Township: The 1881 census shows them in Saugeen Township. As with census information at this date, it does not provide their exact location in the township. For this, we may turn to the Ontario Land Registry Access website, Onland.ca. This leads us to the abstract index for the Lake Range lot 54. This is the first land record found for Adam 'Yung', as he is described. He received this lot by 'conveyance' from the executors of the McNabb estate in February of 1888. The was probably in the township for nearly a decade prior to this. ( a conveyance is a form of deed.) This was followed in April of 1901 by the sale of the property by Barbara Yung and John Kuhl, the executors of Adam Yung (so spelled). This represented 85 acres. This transaction was some nine years after Adam's death. There was a second land transaction in Saugeen, this time with lot 55 in the Lake Range and which should have been contiguous with lot 54. The dates and types of entry are the same as well as Barbara's sale of the properties. The only difference being that with lot 55, they family gained 42-1/2 acres. The only other comment that may be made is that while the family appears in Saugeen Township, census-wise, as of 1881, daughter Barbara's birth registration places her birth in Saugeen Township in 1876. It's entirely possible that they were there at least a bit earlier. Where the family might have resided in Saugeen between at least as early as 1876 and when they bought the two Lake Range properties in 1888, we do not know. |
Children of Adam Young and Barbara Gabel |
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| Last Edited | 18 Jul 2020 |