Brief Life History of Martha A
When Martha A Crosby was born on 2 April 1839, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Samuel Crosby, was 26 and her mother, Anice " Annis" Trask, was 28. She lived in Carleton, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 2 April 1921, at the age of 82, and was buried in Pleasant Valley, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Martha Crosby in household of Samuel Crosby, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Martha A. Crosby, "Find A Grave Index"
- Martha A Crosby in household of Samuel Crosby, "Canada Census, 1871"
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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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