Crosby Family History
Crosby Name Meaning
Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various
places in southwestern Scotland and northern England that are named
with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + býr ‘farm’,
‘settlement’.Irish: Scottish and English surname (see 1
above) adopted by bearers of Gaelic Mac an Chrosáin (see
McCrossen).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
868,418
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Crosby
Name Distribution of Crosby Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Crosby families
 380 - 757  127 - 379 |
 1 - 126  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Crosby families
|
16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Crosby census records
You can see how Crosby families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
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Crosby Family Origin
Crosby Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Crosby families immigrated
to the United States.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Crosby Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Crosby families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Crosby Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Crosby census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Crosby ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Crosby
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