Robert Crosbie

Brief Life History of Robert

When Robert Crosbie was born on 3 January 1851, in Hazelbank, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Gray Crosbie, was 43 and his mother, Helen Francis, was 44. He married Helen Spowart on 22 August 1873, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1861 and Weber, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 5 May 1918, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Crosbie
1851–1918
Helen Spowart
1852–1914
Marriage: 22 August 1873
Catherine Crosbie
1874–1934
Robert Crosby
1875–
John Crosbie
1877–
George Crosby
1879–1955
Josiah Crosby
1882–1882
Margaret Crosby
1884–1939
Agnes Helen Crosby
1887–1968
William T Crosby
1889–1904
James Spowart Crosby
1893–1937
Alexander Crosby
1895–1957

Sources (29)

  • Robert Crosbie in household of Robert Crosbie, "Scotland Census, 1851"
  • Robert Crosbie, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
  • Robert Crosbie, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

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World Events (8)

1854 · Great North of Scotland Railway

Being one of the two smallest railways in 1923, the Great North of Scotland Railway carried its first passengers from Kittybrewster to Huntly in 1854. In the 1880s the railways were refurbished to give express services to the suburban parts in Aberdeen. There were junctions with the Highland Railway established to help connect Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray counties. The railway started to deliver goods from the North Sean and from the whisky distilleries in Speyside. With the implementation of bus services and the purchase of the British Railway the Great North of Scotland Railway was discontinued.

1857 · Police (Scotland) Act 1857

The Police Act 1857 was an Act put into place by Parliament to establish a mandatory police force in every county of Scotland.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

Scottish: variant of Crosby .

Scottish and Irish: habitational name from one or other of the places in Scotland called Crosbie or Corsbie in Ayrshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Berwickshire. The medieval family of Crosbie in Scotland were followers of the Bruce lords of Annandale.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Leamington Trackmen Had Cool Task

My great grandfather, Gavin (Guy) Crosby and brother Bob apparently met with Alexander Graham shortly after their arrival at the Almy Utah (Now Wyoming) coal mines in 1874. They soon decided to work o …

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