Brief Life History of Gertrude
When Gertrude Crosby was christened on 20 November 1898, in Goole, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Henry Crosby, was 41 and her mother, Hannah Headley, was 34. She died in 1898, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
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Family Time Line
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- Gertrude Crosby, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
Parents and Siblings
1858–1928 Male
1864– Female
Siblings (14)
1886–1906 Female
1887– Male
1890– Male
1891–1944 Male
1893– Female
+9 More Children
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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