Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Crosby was born on 7 May 1834, in Ohio, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Ansel Crosby, was 48 and her mother, Tabitha Dennis, was 46. She married William Jesse Wyman on 15 November 1852, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 18 November 1910, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 76, and was buried in Yarmouth Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Elisabeth Wyman, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Elizabeth Wyman, "Nova Scotia Deaths, 1890-1955"
- Elizabeth Crosby in entry for Wm. J. Wyman, "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918"
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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1909 · First Canadian Flight
The Silver Dart was the first recorded flight in Canada. It took off from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, on February 23, 1909, and was piloted by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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