When Francis Crosby , II was born on 21 December 1739, in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, David Crosby, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Foster, was 30. He died on 21 October 1758, in his hometown, at the age of 18.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + bȳ ‘farm, settlement’ in Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland, North Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire.
Irish: surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Mac an Chrosáin (see McCrossen ).
History: The surname of the Irish family of Crosbie is ultimately derived from providing the chief bards to the O’Mores, Chiefs of Leix: crosán means ‘bard’ or ‘satirist’. Pádraic Mac Crosáin or Mac An Chrosáin took the Anglicized name Patrick Crosbie c. 1583.
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