Talk:Jess Young

Jess Young and a Jesse Young
Jesse Young, son of Richard Young (MP), is known to have taken part in a Giles expedition: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/70/4/302/1058650. It says there he was an astronomer. More research needed, but this may be a match. Charles Matthews (talk) 20:05, 21 December 2022 (UTC)


 * On the point raised about Jess being an abbreviation, the two 1878 articles https://www.jstor.org/stable/2463880 and https://www.jstor.org/stable/196436 about Young and the American Geographical Society use respectively Jesse and Jess. So Jess is the short form, and he preferred to refer to himself that way. Charles Matthews (talk) 04:04, 22 December 2022 (UTC)


 * A reference for the son of Richard Young is https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=YN877J&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 for Jess Young. The obituary at https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/jesse-young-a-life-well-lived/ is consistent with that, but adds much further detail. The mention in it of education in St Andrews is supported by https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000447/18660719/034/0001, where Jesse Young of Wisbech attends David James Smeaton's Abbey Park School.


 * Apart from detailed questions about exact dates and movements in 1874/5, there doesn't seem to be much reason to doubt the identification. Charles Matthews (talk) 04:14, 22 December 2022 (UTC)