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• Er wurde geboren im Jahr 1811 in Penang, Prince of Wales Island, Malaysia.
• Er wurde getauft im Jahr 1813.

  William Sr. vertrekt in 1813 naar Prince of Wales Island. Tijdens dit verblijf worden zijn kinderen William Jr. Chistiana en Susan gedoopt. Hierna vertrekt William Sr. weer naar Batavia om zijn werkzaamheden daar voort te zetten. Wat er daarna met de kinderen gebeurt is niet duidelijk. William Jr. komen we rond 1827 weer tegen in Batavia. Christiana en Susan overlijden beiden in Calcutta. Cristiana in 1826

• (Doop) am 13. Februar 1814 in Prince of Wales Island, Penang: Wordt samen met zijn zusjes Susannah en Christiana Young gedoopt. Moeder "a native" Moeder zou misschien een Hokkien Chinese zijn geweest..
• Er ist verstorben am 10. April 1886 in Londen, er war 75 Jahre alt.
• Er wurde beerdigt in West Ham Cemetery, London.
• Ein Kind von William Young und Munies de Buchanan

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gedoopt 8 november 1818, Batavia.

http://archive.org/stream/memorialsofprote00wyli#page/66/mode/2up/search/Mr.+young beschrijft het leven van William jr.

We have been greatly cheered by the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Young, who have been to England for the benefit of their health. They return, greatly improved and prepared to enter fresh upon their duties and labours. Mrs. Young is a lovely woman. She is soon to open a Girls’ School, which we feel to be a very desirable thing. She possesses a pretty good knowledge of the language and consequently can go to work at once.

'Rev' William Young was recruited in Batavia by Walter Medhurst. He was born in

the 'Malay Archipelago' to a father of the same name c1920 or so. His mother's

name is not known and I have hypothesised from other material that his wife

might have been a local girl, possibly Malay. At one time I thought she may

have been Hokkien Chinese but I now doubt that. He married Olive Vardon in

Batavia, daughter of British traders and probably friends of his fathers. They

had a child in Melbourne, Victoria but Mrs Young died, again a sadly common

event.

As a locally recruited missionary, he never went through the formal LMS Or the

US equivalent) selection. The Ultra-Ganges and China records of the LMS, and

Wylie's record of China missionaries, give less than the above about his

origins. He was originally a Baptist, was educated at a Baptist school in

Calcutta, but had no higher education. He had a personal commitment to pastoral

ministry rather than being a strong evangelist. He spent nearly twenty years in

Australia, before returning to Batavia and then Singapore. He died in London.

His contribution to the evangelisation of the Chinese in Victoria is an untold

story. I am trying to put together an article with a title something like,

William Young, the Faithful Failure. The title 'Reverend' was in common use in

19C Australia for full-time Christian workers, whether ordained or not. Young

was denied ordination by the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, certainly on

educational grounds but possibly because of the ethnic issue above.

From 'The Illustrated London News', August 5th, 1854

One of the fine steamships of the Peninsular & Oriental Company, the 'Douro', has just been wrecked under the following distressing circumstances on her voyage from Hong Kong to Singapore.

On the night of May 24th, the 'Douro' encountered a typhoon, in which she lost her funnel and boats, and was wrecked on the north shoal of the Paracels, a group of islands and shoals in the China Sea. The following is a detailed account of the wreck by a passenger of the vessel:

"We left Hong Kong with the mails and passengers, for England, on May 22nd, at 2 p.m., with fine weather and a fresh breeze from the northeast, making a capital run for the first 48 hours. A heavy sea then began to set in, with more wind, which gradually increased to a typhoon, on the night of the 24th:

we were in the midst of it. Our lifeboats were washed away, sails blown from the yards, and eventually our funnel blown overboard. This was about one p.m. on the 25th. The engines were stopped, and the ship lay-to very well until daylight, the gale rapidly moderating. The captain deemed it advisable to bear up for Hong Kong, which was accordingly done, and the day spent in

repairing damages, shifting sails, disconnecting the screw, etc. At noon, by observation, we were in latitude 15 degrees 51 minutes north, longitude 110

degrees 13 minutes east, course steered north by east. Shortly after midnight we were all startled from sleep by feeling the ship grating on the rocks, and

a very soon bumping heavily and the sea washing over. The foremast was cut away, and we soon became a helpless wreck, but getting more firmly fixed on

the rocks, as each sea struck her. We anxiously awaited daylight which, when it came, showed us our position on a reef, without any land in sight. This we concluded to be the north shoal of the Paracels (which proved to be

correct by observation that noon), distant from the nearest land, Woody Island, about 25 miles and from Hainan, east of China, 120 miles. By eight o'clock the ship lay comparatively quiet - the sea having gone down in a wonderful manner in so short time. A consultation was held, in which it was resolved to send our small six-oared boat to Hainan, in charge of Mr. Baker,

the second officer, and Mr. Norice, late commanding officer of the 'Lady Mary Wood', to endeavour to get assistance. They were accordingly started off, with the prayers of all hands for their success, as all our hopes depended upon so frail a chance.

Too much praise cannot be given to these gallant fellows, who, after eight days of great hardship, danger, and privation, succeeded in reaching Hong

Kong, having travelled over a distance of 500 miles in a small jolly-boat, encountered a gale of wind, and being nearly taken prisoners by the pirates

of Hainan. The 'Malta' and 'Tartar', Peninsular & Oriental Company's steamers, were immediately dispatched to our assistance. We remained in this

helpless condition for ten days, constructing rafts, building a boat, and making preparations in case the ship should break up but the weather remained

beautifully fine and the sea smooth during the whole time, a thing very unusual in the China Sea, particularly during the change of the monsoon. We

were much cheered and comforted by the prayers offered at morning and evening by the Rev. Mr. Young, a missionary, and which all Europeans, without

exception, attended. Two Chinese junks were seen at different times. With one we succeeded in communicating, but her captain refused to take anybody on board, and would not go to Hong Kong, though offered 1000 dollars. We could not catch her, or under those circumstances we should have taken her by

force, and sent a part of the passengers and crew to Hong Kong. Only one life was lost - a Lascar, who, with some others, rushed for our only serviceable boat when we struck, and in attempting to lower her down he fell

overboard and was drowned. The mails and the passengers were put on board the 'Malta 'on June 6th, and turned over to the 'Pekin', which left Hong Kong with the mails of that date, with orders to call at the North Shoal. Great hopes were entertained of getting the 'Douro' off, should the weather have remained fine."

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