Simon Young (11 August 1823 – 26 September 1893) served as Magistrate of the British colony of the

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in 1849. Young was the son of George Young, who in turn was the son of ''Bounty'' mutineer

Ned Young The complement of , the Royal Navy ship on which a historic mutiny occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789, comprised 46 men on its departure from England in December 1787 and 44 at the time of the mutiny, including her commander Lieut ...

.Mr. Arthur Herbert Young
''Pacific Islands Monthly'', July 1943, p28 His mother was Hannah Adams, a daughter of

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. Young married Mary Buffett Christian. His father-in-law John Buffett had arrived on the island in 1823 (the year Young was born) as a schoolteacher, and had stayed to help Adams teach the islands many children. Young himself was a schoolteacher by trade. He spent several years on

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but returned to

Pitcairn The Pitcairn Islands ( ; Pitkern: '), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. The four islan ...

in 1864. Young's marriage produced 13 children, including two future Magistrates,

Benjamin Stanley Young Benjamin Stanley Young (13 December 1851 –16 August 1934) served as Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of the Pitcairn Islands twice, from 1884 to 1885, and in 1892. Young's father, Simon Young (magistrate), Simon Young, also served as ...

, William Alfred Young and Arthur Herbert Young, and the historian Rosalind Amelia Young.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Simon Pitcairn Islands people of English descent Pitcairn Islands people of Saint Kitts and Nevis descent Pitcairn Islands politicians 1823 births 1893 deaths Pitcairn Islands people of Polynesian descent