Newsletter for the interchange of genealocal data and history of the Young (and variant spellings) who came mainly from England, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Norway, Prussia, Scotland and Wales. Some were Amish, Anabaptists and Mennonites. Many were soldiers in the Revolutionary, Spanish-American and Civil Wars. One ancestor, Edward "Ned" Young survived the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty in the South Pacific in 1787. Many of his descendants lived...

Yonge Township is composed of Front of Yonge Township and Rear of Yonge and Escott Township.

The Society is officially known as the Leeds and Grenville Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society.

Yonge Street runs through Toronto, York County and Simcoe County.

The family of Caynton appears to have originated in Cheshire and to have been living at caynton as early as 1135. The de Cayntons acted as sheriffs of Salop and Staffordshire. Thomas le Yonge (ca. 1380) was from Ludlow and Sibdon, Salop (Shropshire). He was a Member of Parliament and is said to have descended from Randolph of Aston near Newport (Salop). He married Margaret de Caynton, heiress of Caynton, and eventually inherited the Caynton estates....

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Yonges (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England and Wales. Many descend from the Welsh Yonges of Brynyorkin and Tudor Trevor. Focus is on (but not limited to) ancestors and descendants of Rev. Christopher Yonges (d. 1626), the vicar of the Church of St. Edmunds in Southwold, Suffolk County, England. He married Margaret ca. 1600, and had five children, including...