Mrs. Elizabeth Grossart Young. She was the daughter of William (b. ca. 1850) and Marion (nee Dickson; born ca. 1850) Grossart and was born in 1888 at Carmichael in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Her parents had married 27 January 1871 at Carmichael, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Her known brothers and sisters were James, b. 5 December 1870 (out of wedlock?), Adam, b. 20 May 1872, William, b. 16 October 1873, Alexander, b. 1875, Jane, b. 1876, John, b. 1877, Robert, b. 1880, Marion, b. 1882, Annie, b. 1883, Marion, b. 1890 and Thomas, b. 22 October 1891. She married Charles Young in 1909 at Partick, Scotland. She arrived at Ellis Island, New York on 27 April 1913, aged 24, and was noted as joining her husband Charles Young in Chicago, Illinois (520 W 65th Place) in good health, 5ft 7 tall with ruddy complexion, auburn hair and blue eyes, being from Lanark, Scotland. She paid her own ticket, but had not yet booked her onward journey. She was only in possession of $30 dollars rather than the required $50. She travelled on the Cameronia out of Glasgow. She was noted as married, a housewife and was able to read and write. Next of kin in country of origin was listed as: Marion D. Grossart (mother) of Cowan Brae, Lanark. She was returning to visit her family having been overseas in Chicago Illinois, her husband Charles was working on the railway there. She returned with a couple of other women in the same situation, returning to Castlegate in Lanark. The Cunard Line stated she was 27 years old and that her point of origin was Chicago. She travelled with Mrs. Murray. Mrs. Young did not survive the sinking of the Lusitania.
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