William Gerald (Jessie) Stafford Young

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. & http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/34581747?searchTerm=William Jesse Young&searchLimits= where it is noted:
SHOT HER FATHER YOUNG GIRL COMMITTED WIDOW'S EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. Melbourne, May 7. Following an inquest to-day into the death of William Jesse Young, 43 years, at his farm at Garfield on April 28, the Deputy Coroner, Mr. Wade, committed Wilma Gertrude Young, 15 years, a daughter of the dead man, for trial on a charge of manslaughter. Constable. Francis Stzwart O'Farell, of Dandenong, said r.hat he saw the body of Young at Gar field. Young had been shyt. Wit ness interviewed Wilma Young, who admitted that she had shot her father, as he had tried to assault her, and had done so on the pre vious day. Her father had strug gled with her in a shed near the house, where she had previously concealed a gun. She -managed to obtain the gun, and she shot him as he was running towards the house. Susan Young, widow of the dead man, gave evidence of the conduct of her husband towards their three daughters. She said that Young had often threatened to shoot her and the children, and that he had shot his first wife.
& Fred Batten who notes:
As you know my wife Kathy is one of Len Sharp's daughters he being the son of Susan Sharp Williams wife and she tells me that this matter was often discussed by the family members and a somewhat different scernario was in fact the case.
According to the family version of events the "facts"as given at the trial were fabricated to cover up the true state of affairs.
According to the family members William was a very gentle loving husband and dad and would never have molested his girls but Susan was not averse to a bit of hanky panky, which she was engaged in with George on that day.
Wilna was not home when the incident occured but arrived home soon after and found her father dead.
The family members are of the opinion that George and Susan were together in the house and he told her to look out the window to see if anybody was around, took his gun and went after William who was working in the shed and after an argument shot him
Wilna was then told that when the Police came she was to tell them that she was the guilty party and give as her reasons the molestation story.
Wilna is believed to have had a breakdown after the trial and spent some years in a mental home before going to Sydney where she died having married a Fellow of Chinese extraction
Interesting Too that Susan Married George Knowles in 1932.

• connection. Leslie Huon Manning 's connection to me is as follows:
Leslie Huon Manning (c1940)
His father is Leslie Howard Manning (1913) who married Mollie Young (1919)
Her father was William Young (1886)
His father was William Young (1847) who married Florence Stafford (1860)
Her father was John Stafford (1834)
His father was William Stafford (1811) who married Elizabeth Goodall (1814) & they also had William Stafford (1842)
He had Eva Stafford (1874) who married Arthur Clinton (1868)
They had James Clinton (1895) who married Martha Walker (1901)
Her father was Thomas Walker (1854)
His father was William Walker (1820) & he also had Martha Walker (1865) who married John Sutherland (1861)
His father was John Sutherland (1829) who married Margaret Elliot (1835)
They had Elizabeth Sutherland (1863) who married John Nicol (1844)
They had Margaret Nicol (1889) who married G. A. Davies (1925)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• Military. If you Google "William Jesse Young in NSW "you should come up with his Army Service records.
This is a file of some 22 pages and gives you , not only his war service history, but more importantly a
Physical description of the man himself.

• Resided. If you google this website you will see information on William Young's WWI Soldier Settlement Records in Victoria
http://soldiersettlement.prov.vic.gov.au/soldiers/1199-12-young-william-jesse/

William married Susan Sharp, daughter of Malcolm Sharp and Ellen Cookson, in 1910 in Rokewood, Victoria Australia. (Susan Sharp was born on 5 Oct 1891 in Rokewood, Victoria Australia and died on 23 Feb 1934 in Nilma, Victoria Australia.)