Background
Was born at King"s Somborne, Hampshire near Southampton and educated at Winchester, then was apprenticed to an uncle at Andover.
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Career
Thomas Young senior He emigrated to South Australia in the ship Singapore, arriving on 11 November 1839. Later he opened a general store at O"Halloran Hill, and is also recorded as having a store at Clarendon. He was Chairman of the first District Council of Clarendon, holding that office for three years.
He was elected to the House of Assembly, representing the seat of Noarlunga from 9 March 1857 to 22 March 1860.
From 1867 he served as Clerk of the Courts at Blinman, for nine years then with the Main Roads Board for the Northern District in Portuguese Augusta from 1877 to 1884, when the board was abolished. He spent some time in Adelaide, then returned to Portuguese Augusta where he joined his son"s firm of Young & Gordon, and also acted as auditor for various Portuguese Augusta institutions.
Thomas Young was twice married. Florence Elizabeth Young (c 1842 – 20 July 1951) married Arthur Betteridge, lived in Richmond, Victoria
Thomas Young jun.
(19 November 1844 – 17 May 1913) was born in Happy Valley and educated at J. L. Young"s (no relation) Adelaide Educational Institution.
He moved to Portuguese Augusta in 1864 and founded the shipping agency Bignell & Young then Young & Gordon with Robert Gordon. He served as mayor of Portuguese Augusta 1879–1881 and 1898–1900. He was involved in copper mining at Mount Gunson.
Herbert Loudon Young (1869 – 31 July 1931) succeeded his father as director of Young & Gordon. third daughter Jessie Isabel Young married Lloyd Sunman around 1911.
Sons included Jack Young Sunman (born 19 February 1913), Robert Owen Sunman (born 6 November 1914), Colin London Sunman (born 16 March 1919), Leonard Robert Sunman (born 20 February 1924)
youngest daughter Bertha Augusta Young married Laurence Lindsay "Laurie" Jones on 4 February 1914
Oliver J. Young married Margaret Cowan on 29 September 1920
fifth son Leonard Gordon Young married Joyce Blatchford on 20 February 1943
third son George Young (c 1847 – 11 June 1918) married Isabella Stephens Stanton on 3 July 1877. He was butcher at Blinman then with Young & Gordon in Portuguese Augusta.
Emmeline C. Young
Sidney West. C. Young, married Charity North. ??? ( – 24 June 1928). Lived at Portuguese Augusta.
Dudley Caldwell Young (22 February 1908 – ) was engaged to Dorothy Nancy Kemp in 1931
Gwynith Wyke Young married Clement Charles Hooper on 4 December 1928
youngest daughter Lillian Gertrude married George Frederick Egan (1867–1935), on 6 July 1897, lived in Perth, Western Australia.
George was for a time mayor of Carnarvon.
