I am the author of the Youngs of Scotland and I have been researching this family of Youngs and others since 1982. Much of what is written here is totally false. If you publish information with many falsehoods it puts the whole work in question. I have viewed these original sources and other and they do not say what is written here. For example, there is no evidence that John Young, a merchant was ever knighted or a priest, who were also referred to as Sir. Also, there is no mention of these middle names in any credible source from this time period. I have been to John's grave. His stone was lying flat and covered with earth in the Houff of Dundee. We dug it up and cleaned it and it says: John Young. No Sir. No middle name. Sir Peter's diary and the books written about him do not say these middle names. Also The first person to have a middle name in the UK was the German born King George I (George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg) who became King in 1714. Middle names then started to become popular in the Britain but it was a slow process. For example, in a search of all testaments in Scotlandspeople.co.uk of all Smiths from 1700 to 1750 not one Smith had a middle name. If it is partly fiction than it all has to be treated a unbelievable. That is the problem with the internet. There are no checks and people can write all kinds of rubbish and many will believe it is fact. A sorry state. I could go on with other errors, and there are many, but it would be a waste of time time.