Edwin Young was a farmer born in Newton-Longville, Buckinghamshire, in 1816. He was one of seven children of Thomas Young and Martha Sears.
By the 1841 census, Edwin had moved to Singleborough, married, and had a son Edwin, age 1. His first child Joseph had died as an infant. The distance from his birthplace to Singleborough was 7 miles.
In 1851 he had five children, 60 acres of land and two labourers to work on the farm.
