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Clackmannanshire / Re: Jane Younger (nee Hunter)
« on: Tuesday 30 September 08 09:41 BST (UK)  »
Lorrie21,

Thanks for that. I'll try and digest all these connections later.

I'm a native of Alloa and my family has deep roots here over several generations.

I'll post the photo tonight.

I have photos of the 1st Viscount's grave in Greenside cemetery which includes other family members and that of the McEwan's headstone as well. I also have that of William McEwan's grave at Great Bookham in Surrey.

Clackmannanshire Council have records of burials going way back - that is how I located the Younger and McEwan sites - Greenside has not been used for many years now. I can easily give you their number for further investigation.

I did spot other Younger headstones there - but I was'nt looking for anything earlier than the generation born in the mid 19th century.

If you have an e-mail address I can attach the photos direct, rather than post them all here.

I also have contact details for some current members of various branches of the Younger family - all have been very helpful.

If you have'nt already done so - get down to your local library and dig out Burke's Peerage as it contains extensive details on the Younger family, I found it invaluable. Also, "Who's Who" and "Who Was Who" was very useful.

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Clackmannanshire / Re: Jane Younger (nee Hunter)
« on: Monday 29 September 08 21:00 BST (UK)  »
Lorrie21.

I'm no genealogist (did I spell it correctly ?) so please bear with me. The male line of the Youngers quoted followed their fathers as head of the brewery, although not always the eldest sons - I don't have much info on any "missing" sons.

Mary Bleloch (died 1837) married James Younger (1763-1809) in 1789, his father George (1722-1788) had started the family brewing business circa 1764.

Their son George (1790-1853) married Jane Hunter (1792-1890) in 1816.

Their son James (1818-1868) married Janet McEwan (1823-1912) in 1850. His younger brother Robert (1820-1901) moved to Edinburgh and founded his own brewery there in 1854.

Janet's brother was William McEwan who founded the renowned Fountainbridge brewery in Edinburgh - of McEwan's Export fame.

James and Janet had 5 sons and 1 daughter - I have a photo, circa 1858, of Janet and 4 of the boys (the youngest was then unborn) and the girl. This generation, great grandchildren of Mary Bleloch, brought the Younger family to national prominence.

George (1851-1929) became 1st Viscount Leckie - lots of information via 'Google' search engine, or here

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/37082.html

His younger brother William became managing director of William McEwan's (his maternal uncle) brewery in Edinburgh in 1886 and guided it into becoming one of the biggest brewing concerns in the UK.

Here is McEwan's background -

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/50416.html

Their younger brother James settled in St.Andrews and gifted the Younger Hall to the university.

The youngest brother Robert became a very prominent legal figure, later Baron Blanesburgh.

Would you like me to post the photo mentioned above ?


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Clackmannanshire / Re: Jane Younger (nee Hunter)
« on: Saturday 20 September 08 22:36 BST (UK)  »
After stumbling upon this thread by accident - I decided to register.

With my interest in the local brewing tradition I have been researching the Youngers of Alloa - and the family connections with other Scottish breweries.

I'm thinking that George (1790-1853) and Jane Younger's (died1890) son James (1818-1868) became head of the Alloa brewery and married Janet McEwan (1823-1912) sister of (the later) Sir William McEwan (1827-1913) who was to become one of Britain's major beer barons.

Another son, Robert (1820-1901) went to Edinburgh and opened his own brewery there.

I am in correspondence with members of both the Alloa and Edinburgh branches of the family - as well as a member of the McEwan-Younger branch.

I'd be happy to help.

The former Meadow Brewery, which included the family home in that period, still survives in Alloa, now converted into flats.





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