C. D. Young
Charles Denoon Young of C. D. Young and Co., St Leonards' Iron and Engineering Works, Perth, Edinburgh, and London
1858 'EDINBURGH BANKRUPTCY COURT. EXAMINATION OF MR. C. D. YOUNG.
On Monday the examination "Mr Charles Denoon Yourg, engineer ironfounder, and contractor, residing at 6 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh, and carrying on business as an engineer, ironfounder, and contractor in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester, and Liverpool, under the style or firm of C. D. Young & Co., of which he is the sole partner," took place in the Bankruptcy Court, County Buildings, at twelve o'clock. .... The bankrupt, on being examined by Mr Lindsay, deponed — I was bred an engineer. I commenced business in 1840 in Edinburgh as an engineer and iron-work manufacturer, in partnership with my brother, under the firm of W. & C. Young. That partnership was dissolved at the beginning of 1847, on the understanding that my brother William was to retire from the copartnery, and I was to repay him his capital, which I did. His interest in that business was one-half after the dissolution had been thus carried out. I conducted the business under the firm of C. D. Young & Co., of which I have all along been the sole partner. The sum which I paid to my brother William on the occasion above referred to was about £4,000. The nature of the business carried on by me since 1847, under the firm of C. D. Young & Co, was that of ironwork manufacturer and iron fence maker. I afterwards in the course of business undertook contracts for iron buildings, bridges, and the like. I took the general management of the business -the details being managed by my clerks and my foreman.....'[1]
1874 'Charles Denoon Young, residing at Inveralmond, near Perth, sole Partner of the Firn of C. D. YOUNG & Co., Engineers, Contractors, and Boilermakers, St Leonards' Works near Perth, and presently a prisoner in the Prison of Perth, has presented a petition… for liberation…'[2]