I'm attaching a series of e-mails from a Rod Younger that might prove very very interesting. Please feel free to communicate with him. I've copied him as well. Does anyone have any NC records that might be useful to him or know of any NC Youngers that might be relevant? Bobbi _____ From: rod younger [mailto:rodyounger@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 4:49 AM To: Roberta J. Estes Subject: Re: Younger Family Hi Roberta, Many thanks for getting back to me. I have very good information on the descendants of Charles Younger (brother of Thomas who supposedly went to Jamaica via Wilmington, ex Glasgow) - he had at least 3 children with a free mulatto woman called Hannah Luney (father may have been Norwegian) and his son Charles 2 went to Spain (Cadiz) in 1814 and basically the Younger's stayed in Spain although Charles 2 had an illegitimate son in 1823/4 in London (Charles 3) but whom he took back to Spain before marrying a Spanish lady. Charles 1 was Clerk to the Vestry in Hanover parish of Jamaica as well as Capitan in Jamaican militia - it looks like he (and possibly his brothers) were involved in a firm called Leigh & Younger. He married a Mary James Tenison in 1802 but died in 1804 in Lucea - age unknown but assumed to be in his 50/60s. His wive lived (in Jamaica) until 1836 and at one stage had up to 22 slaves. My line of descendents is from this Charles 1 - my grandmother was Elena Younger and she married Manuel Manso de Zuniga. My father went to live in the UK in the 1950s and dropped the Manso de Zuniga. When he retired back in Spain and adopted Manso de Zuniga Younger again - unfortunately he died a couple of weeks ago. So in essence my real surname is Manso de Zuniga - the Younger comes from my grandmother (so I am not sure if microchondtrial DNA tracing would work for me). BTW, the link to www.familtytreedna.com <http://www.familtytreedna.com/> just takes me to a portal page with details of various web sites dealing with DNA and genealogy. However, there are a number of Younger's in UK and Spain to whom we are related (via brothers/sisters of my great grandfather and my grand mother etc.) and with whom we are in touch and in fact we have Younger family reunions every two years. My real interest is in finding out where Charles 1 and his brothers Thomas and William came from and so I was wondering if there are any records/information on him (or Thomas or William) from Wilmington - would be great to know for example who their father and mother were, why they went to Jamaica and if they had any children/relatives in NC. In any event, what was going on in NC in the mid 1700's to attract these settlers - was it cotton or tabaco farming? Kind regards, Rod 2008/10/20 Roberta J. Estes <restes@comcast.net> Hi Rod, I'm not familiar with your line at all, but I'd surely be interested to see of your DNA matches that of any of our participants. It would make the research easier knowing if we are shooting for the same family, or if we aren't. Have you considered this avenue. You are fortunately that you can personally participate because you have the Younger surname. I'm attaching a paper about how this works. Brownie and I have the Younger project at www.familtytreedna.com and you can get the project discount if you join through the project. Roberta _____ From: rod younger [mailto:rodyounger@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 7:00 AM To: restes@comcast.net; Mbmackie1231@aol.com Subject: Younger Family Dear Bobbi and Brownie, I have come across your correspondence on RootsWeb regarding the Youngers (especially Thomas Younger). I am researching my own roots and have got as far as tracing a Thomas Younger who went from Glasgow to Wilmington but who died in Lucea, Jamaica in 1795. I believe he had two brothers, William and Charles, both of whom also ended up in Lucea, Jamaica but I don´t know whether they also came via Wilmington or straight from Glasgow. My line of the family is via Charles but I am keen to find out more about where the brothers originally came from and if they have any descendents in Wilmington (or anywhere in the USA). Any information you may have in this regard would be much apprecaited. FYI, aside from Jamaican registry records, my sources for the information I have include; The Gentleman's Magazine which extracted some years ago Jamaican references, that had been extracted concerning North American references of Marriages and Deaths that the compiler - again David Dobson - had found in them. His volume was titled American Vital Records from the Gentleman's Magazine 1731-1868. It had recorded "Younger, Thomas, ex. Glasgow, Wilmington N.C. [North Carolina] d. Lucea, Ja. 1795 (Vol.65, p.794). This entry matches one in the Jamaican registries of Thomas Younger "brother of Charles, merchant Lucea" who was buried 23 June 1795: and a series of books titled Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America 1625 - 1825 by David Dobson. North America includes the Caribbean. Vol. 3 which has the following: "Younger, William, Millwright. Died in Lucea, Jamaica on 11 August 1789 (source given as Scots Magazine 51.570). This William is highly likely to be a brother of Charles 1 and Thomas Younger (who were brothers) Thank you for your attention and I look forward to hearing if you can shed any further light on the Younger brothers. Kind regards, Rod Younger