Last name: CROSBY
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CROSBY : This last name is indexed 141,465 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CROSBY : 1: 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.2: Irish: surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Mac an Chrosáin (see McCrossen).
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