She was part of a well-known English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Her Aunt Cecilia (1712–1789), was one of the greatest English sopranos of the eighteenth century and the wife of composer Thomas Arne.
Her Aunt Isabella was also a successful soprano and the wife of composer John Frederick Lampe and her Aunt Esther was a well known contralto and wife to Charles Jones, a successful music publisher in England during the eighteenth century.
[3] In 1758, Elizabeth Young joined the company of players at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane where she first appeared as Lucy in The Beggar's Opera.
She sang regularly at Drury Lane until 1772 and in some seasons at Finch’s Grotto, a pleasure garden in South London.