George Young and Catherine Black
This was taken from our genealogy notes, you can see them in the database under George Young below.
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He was born on 24 February 1826 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. He was christened on 5 March 1826 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland.
George was converted and baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints about 1850 in Scotland by John Crofford. He was rebaptized in 1883 in Wyoming because there was a question about the date on the original records. Katie (Catherine) Blyth, my Aunt, told me that she remembers stories of “Grampa George” helping the missionaries and being very active in the LDS Church in Scotland. George is in the 1851 Cockpen census living at 22 Hunterfield Manor No. 81 with his wife Catherine (age 18) George’s age is 24 and he is a coal miner.
George and Catherine announced Banns 10 August 1850, both living in Newbattle parish. George married Catherine Black, daughter of Lauchlan Black and Isabelle McDougal-Mclucias, on 4 October 1850 in Stobhill, Nebattle, Midlothian, Scotland. They had 15 children: Isabelle, William Black, George, Janet, Mary, Adam, George, Catherine, Anna, John Black, Margaret, Christina, Jean Black, Lauchlan Black, and Elizabeth.
The family had to move often because the coal mines where George worked would ‘play’ out and had to close down.
He is again the 1861 Newbattle census living at 5 Castlehill with his wife Catherine and 6 children. Then they are in the Cockpen 1851 census living in Hunterfield. Again we see them in the Newbattle in the 1861 census living at #5 Castle Hill and in the 1881 census in Hunterfield .
George and Catherine’s last child was born in Scotland in 1879 and the family still appears in Scotland in the 1881 census although some of the older children were living away from home by that time. Most of the family, except for a few of the older children, began to immigrate to the U.S. after 1881.
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| From KAY FAMILY |
Following is the history that my(Yvonne) Aunt Katie Blyth Hamilton (Margaret Young’s oldest daughter), gave to me about her grandmother, Catherine Black. –Got That.
Catherine’s parents both died when she was a young girl. She was raised by an Aunt and Uncle. She worked in the woolen mills in Iverness and grew up there. When her Aunt and Uncle decided to go to Canada she didn’t want to go, so she stayed in Scotland and married while still very young. However Sometime before she met and married George Young, she had reason and means to move to the Parish of Newbattle. (Their marriage banns stated that she was living in the parish of Newbattle.)
Catherine Black died at about age 65 in 9, September 1898 in Rocksprings, Sweetwater, Wyoming.
George young died just a year later and the age of 73, on 4 September 1899 in Rocksprings, Sweetwater, Wyoming
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