George Young was born in Great Horwood, Buckinghamshire, in 1849. George was the third son of Edwin Young and Elizabeth Ridgway.
Great Horwood is listed in the 1076 Domesday Book. It remains a rural part of England, and the village has just over 1,000 people. Roman artifacts have been found on the land. The name is Anglo-Saxon in origin and means muddy wood. The area was subject to the Norman conquest.
George married Hannah Mumford in Winslow, Buckinghamshire in 1870. My grandfather Richard Augustus was the second of four children. According to the 1891 census, George was a farmer and had one employee. He decided to move with his wife, daughter Annie (18), and three sons, George M.(21), Richard Augustus(19), and Percy (9), 1893 to Canada.
George first lived in New Westminster, British Columbia. He tried homesteading in Macleod, Alberta and was enumerated for the 1911 census. He returned to British Columbia after two years.
George died in 1926 while living in New Westminster. His wife, Hannah, died in 1920.
