Stamford S. Young was born in Madras in 1843, son of General Francis Young and Rosa Matilda (nee Kingsell). Stamford was one of their 13 children.
General Francis Young, from Wexford, of the Indian Staff Corps, died on January 4 1893 at Marlborough House, Southsea. From a press cutting of the day: The gallant officer, who had attained to the age of 75, served in the suppression of the mutiny in Bengal in 1857-59, and received the thanks of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal for a successful pursuit of a body of Sepoy rebels in Behar in June, 1858. He received an Indian Mutiny Medal.
Stamford married Marianne Rowlandson, daughter of Major Gen George Rowlandson of the Royal Madras Artillery, and Anne Alexander, on 10 Jan 1868 in Pradesh, India. (Marianne was born on 12 Jul 1843 in India and died on 23 May 1869 in Bimlipatam, India.)
In 1873, Stamford married Edith Whitaker Dowson (born 1844 in Camberwell), in Weybridge. They had a daughter, Edith Mabel, born 1877, and sons, Claude Sheridan, born in 1878, Aubrey Sheridan, born and died in 1880, and Montague Sheridan, born in 1883.
In 1877 he published a book called The Three Rifles', all about The Snider, The Military Smallbore and The Match Rifle.
The Three Rifles by Stamford S. Young
In 1881 the family, Stamford, Edith, Mabel, Claude and three House Servants, was living in Wimbledon. In 1891, described as a Retired Banker, Stamford was living in Ealing with his family, with a Governess as well as a Parlourmaid, Cook and Nursemaid. Edith died in 1894, in Wimbledon.
In 1896 he married, in Monaco, Mabel Harriette Daly, who was born in 1866, in Middlesex. He died in February 1901 at 4 Heene Parade, leaving his considerable estate to Mabel.