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- From the History of the County of Peterborough
William Edward Young, deceased, was born in Perth County (actually Perth, Lanark County), Ontario in 1824. He was of Scotch and English parentage, his people living for some time in Ireland before coming to this country. They came to Canada at an early day and settled in Perth County (actually Perth, Lanark County, Ontario). Mr. Young started in life as a shoemaker, but afterwards carried on a general store and mill at Marmora Village, which he gave up and came to Belmont Township in 1856, settling on lot 17, concession 2, where the family still live. He owned at his death about 1,000 acres of land, his original amount being about 500 acres. He married in 1851, Maria Campion, of Marmora Township, who, with three sons and seven daughters survive him. Mr. Young was proinent in the municipal affairs of the township, and was about nine years in the Council. He was a faithful and consistent member of the Canada Methodist Church. He died in 1878.
(handwritten note: Son of Daniel Young and Mary Ann who moved from Perth to Stirling about 1835. Daniel had a shoe making store at Perth. Mary Ann's father, Wm. Edward Tully may live somewhere there although Mrs. Robert Sargeant mentioned he may have gone to Newcastle or Bowmanville. He died in 1845).
Daniel T. Young, son of the above, was born in Hastings County, Ontario, in 1853, and at the age of eighteen months his people settled in this township. He lived with the family at the homestead till the spring of 1883, When he exchanged his right in the old place for 300 acres on lot 14, concession 8, to which he soon after moved, and where he now resides. He married, in 1882, Mary J. Aunger, of Blairton, daughter of John L. Aunger, of Blairton, an Englishman by birth.
- (Research):5 sons and two daughters
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1855 - 1919 (63 years)
