When Royal Albert Crosby was born on 11 January 1871, in Murray, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada, his father, James Albert Crosby, was 26 and his mother, Mary Louisa Ferguson, was 18. He married Annie May Duke about 1896, in Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died in 1948, at the age of 77, and was buried in Albury Church Cemetery, Albury, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada.
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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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