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The crosby Surname

crosby Name Meaning and History

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

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Distribution of crosby Families in the US in 1920

Number of crosby families

305-607

102-304

1-101

Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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CROSBY-COSBY-CROFBY-GROSBY	camperkimfl	0
Michael Crosby, b. 1808: Ireland, Maine, Mass., Vermont	snapperblue	3
Michael Crosby from Ireland /mid to late 1800's	kaffeedee1972	2
George Edward Crosby - Ireland	Fionna Carter (Nee Crosby)	1
Edward Gifford Crosby on the Titanic	elizabethannCrosby28	6
Emma CROSBY, Strong Maine	Michele	3
George Edward Crosby m. Emma Louise Peoples	anniesc1	0
Alath Crosby Wilson	tashawillis1982	1
Jeff Davis Crosby of Florida	camperkimfl	0
L L & Sarah Crosby	JaniceMailo	0

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