he following note was posted via email a while back to LI-Rooters by Patricia McCabe , editor,"REV CHRISTOPHER YONGES FAMILY NEWSLETTER": "Rev. Christopher Yonges was born in 1575 - not 1545 (in old English script a 7 could easily have been construed as a 4). This was proven - by me (Patricia McCabe) - when I found the records of his ordination in the Norfolk Public Record Office, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Rev. Christopher was ordained an Anglican Deacon in 1599 "in his 24th year" and the following year ordained an Anglican Priest "in his 25th year". Both these ordinations took place in Norwich Cathedral and can be found in the book in which they were originally written. I have a copy of this - it was done by the staff at the record office. The original was in old Latin. I sent copies to Debretts in Winchester (Engl.) and they translated them into English."

Christopher Yonges attended Cambridge University, obtaining a BA (1596) and a MA (1599)

Record in Alumni Database
Christopher YOUNG
Alias: Christopher YOUNGS
Adm. sizar at EMMANUEL, 25 Apr., 1593.
Matric. c 1593 ;
B.A. 1596/7 ;
M.A. 1600 .
Ord. deacon (Norwich) 21 Dec., 1599; priest, 25 Apr., 1600.
C. of Carlton-by-Kelshall, Suffolk .
V. of Southwold [ Suffolk ] and Reydon [ Suffolk ], 1611-26 .
Buried at Southwold [ Suffolk ], 16 Jun., 1626.
Will proved (Norwich C.C. [ Norfolk ]) 05 Jul., 1626.
Father of John (1620).
All his family emigrated to New England [cu] USA [/cu].
(J. G. Bartlett.)

Between 1611 and 1626, Rev. Christopher Yonges was the curate of a chapel in Southwold which was annexed to the vicarage of Reydon.
Robert Williamson of Southwold, mariner, will written October 25, 1617 & proved Feb. 6, 1617 bequeathes ten shillings to Mr. Christopher Yonges preacher of the word of God at Southwold, Eng.

His wife's name was Margaret and they were the parents of the following children (all 6 survivors named in their parents' wills in this order)
1 John, b. Eng. 1598; m. Joan, widow Herrington m2 Mary Warren[5]
2 Joseph b. Eng. m. Margaret Warren
3 Christopher b. Eng. m. Priscilla Elvin
4 Mary b. Eng. 1609, d. s. p. Salem, Mass., abt. 1638 m. William Brown
5 Margaret b. Eng.
6 Martha b. Southwold, Eng., July 1, 1636; d. Southold, L. I abt. 27 June 1671; m. bef. July 1636 Thomas Moore b. abt. ??, d. Southold, L. I., 27 June, 1691. baptised 1613 not 1636
Edward b. Eng., drowned 25 July 1616.
Elizabeth b. Eng., drowned 25 July 1616, buried 31st. Married Peter Hallock

Southwold Register, 1616
While vicar, Christopher recorded the loss of his eldest and fourth children by drowning in the Southwold Register as follows:
"The names of those who were drowned and found again. They were drowned in the haven coming from Donwich fayer, on St. James's day in a bote, by reason of one cable lying overwharf the haven, for by reason the men that brought them down was so negligent, that when they were redie to come ashore the bote broke lose, and so the force of the tide carried the bote against the cable and so overwhelmed. The number of them were xxii, but they were not all found. The widow Robson, Johne Bates, Mary Yewell, Susan Frost, Margaret Blackbourne and the widow Taylor, were all buried on the 26th day of July, being all cast away, coming from Donwick fayer, on St. James's daye."
"Widow Poster was buried the 27th day of Julye. Bennett Allen was buried the 30th daie, Goodie Kerrison same daie. Edward and Elizabeth Younges, daughter and son to me, C. Younges, vicar and minister, was buried the 31st Dae of Julie."
"All these were found again in this towne and buried."

Christopher was interred in the chancel of St. Margaret of Antioch Church of in Reydon, Suffolk. The inscription set in a brass tablet reads:
"Here lyeth interred e/y body of Mr. Christopher
Yonges who departed this life e/y 14 Day of June
anno Domini, 1626,
A good man full of faith was hee
Here preacher of Gods word
And manie by his ministrie
Were added to the Lord. (Act. II 24.)"

Rev. Christopher Young was a character in a short story by Agnes Strickland published in in the Atlantic Monthly Magazine, January 1851.