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Younger: Origin, Geographical Distribution
According to tradition, the progenitor of this family was a younger son of Conach, King of. Ireland, who came to Scotland in the reign of Gregory the Great, and obtained lands in Dumbartonshire, to which he gave the name of Conachon, corrupted into Golquhoun. I am inclined to think the name is from the Gaelic, denoting one who is brave, lively, quick, and furious in battle; from Colg, and chwoin, the genitive of Cu, a hound, a war-dog;
Younger Surname Origin
Younger: Place of Origin :  Strathclyde (United Kingdom) |  Lothian (United Kingdom) |  Northumberland (United Kingdom) |  County Durham (United Kingdom) |  Oxfordshire (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom)
Younger: Online Family Trees
YOUNGER Westminster (London, England, United Kingdom) 1935 - 1976
YOUNGER Edinburgh (Schotland) (Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1936 - 1936
YOUNGER Melrose, Roxburghshire (Schotland) (Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1908 - 1908
YOUNGER Edinburgh, Midlothian (Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1936 - 1936
YOUNGER Melrose, Roxburgh (Scotland, United Kingdom) 1902 - 1908
YOUNGER Abdie, Fife (Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1832 - 1836
YOUNGER Burnturk, Kettle, Fife (Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1829 - 1829
YOUNGER Clydebank, Dunbartonshire (Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1927 - 1927
YOUNGER Cupar, Fife (Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1839 - 1866
YOUNGER Kelvin, Glasgow City, Lanarkshire (Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1896 - 1896

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YOUNGERKentucky. A history of the state, embracing a concise account of the origin and development of the Virginia colony, its expansion westward, and the settlement of the frontier beyond the Alleghanies, the erection of Kentucky as an independent state, and its subsequent development
Author: Battle, J. H - Published in 1885
... to Miss Jennie, daughter of George Younger, of Hancock County. She was born in Breckinridge County, in 1844, and was ...		 YOUNGERThe dictionary of national biography : founded in 1882 by George Smith (Volume 4)

... of the brewing firm of George Younger & Son, by his wife, Janet, eldest daughter of John Mc-Ewan, of Alloa. ...
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