Defenition: YOUNG, A personal name the same in meaning with Gaelic Og, 'young.' The name was probably applied, as Bradsley suggests, "in the sense of junior, to distinguish father and son when both bore the same personal name." (Source: Black, F. George. The surnames of Scotland; their orign, meaning, and history. New York Public Library, 1946. p. 828.)
The battle of iSandlwana took place in January 1879. Queen Victoria had sent her soldiers earlier to fight and defeat the great Zulu King cetshwayo. (The Zulus won the battle on May 16-18, at Ntombe and at Mt. Hlobane). Among the soldiers who fought in the battle that followed, the battle of Rorke's Drift on May 23-25 was Frank Young an English/Scotsman.
After the war Frank Young settled near Nongoma. He was a builder by trade. He helped build the Nongoma Courthouse--today it still stands. He married maMthethwa--the youngest daughter of King Dingiswayo's brother. She had two children by her previous marriage--Steve and Dedi. Eventually, Frank Young opened Ivana Store outside Nongoma. As time went by something happened that caused him to move to Manyoni. He killed a man. Five children resulted from this marriage. The children were: George Young, Ellen Young, Albert Young, Annie Young, and Alice Margret Young (mommy). At Manyoni the youngs had many cattle. The cattle were used to produce milk. The cream from the milk was sent to a nearby dairy. Frank Young also built dips for the local people to dip their cattle. After maMthethwa's death, Frank Young remarried. He married Fanny Eckersley who had a son by previous marriage--Sonny Bamford.
Alice Margret Young married a young man who had returned from the army that fought in the first world war. in 1917. He was Henry Arthur Thring (papa) and was 29 years at the time of marriage. They settled in Banganomo. Banganomo is between Mkuzi and Nongoma. Here they raised all their children: Roland Ronald Ikie Thring, Kennith Thring, Nancy Thring, Frank Thring, Nelson Edwin Thring, Ruby Elsie Thring, Jimmy Thring, Mark Thring, Hilton Thring, and Alice Polly Thring.
