Robert Crosby

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ROBERT CROSBY (bp. 1596–by 1642)

CONSTANCE BRIGHAM (c. 1601–1684)

Robert Crosby's English Ancestry [1]

John Crosby (1440–20 April /8 June 1502) was of Alne and Stillingfleet, Yorkshire.
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John Crosby (b.c. 1470)
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Thomas Crosby (c. 1505–4 August/ 10 October 1555) of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor married Jennet ___ about 1530.
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Richard Crosby (c. 1532–10 April/6 July 1586) of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor.
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John Crosby (c. 1556–29 October 1604/ and 11 January 1604/5) of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor had an unknown first wife. He married second Jane Webster on 29 October 1604.
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Robert Crosby (bp. 30 October 1596)

Robert Crosby, the son of John Crosby and Jane Webster, was baptized on 30 October 1596 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, East Riding, Yorkshire. [1] He died before 1642. [1] He married Constance Brigham about 1622. [1]

Constance Brigham's English Ancestry [2]

Thomas Brigham (b. c. 1475) (probably) of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor
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Thomas Brigham (c. 1500–1560) of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor married Elizabeth ___ (d. 1573) about 1525.
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Thomas Brigham (c. 1525–bu. 6 February 1558/9) of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor married Jennet Millington alias Tomlinson (c. 1526–21 January 1587/8), daughter of William and Barbara Millington alias Tomlinson about 1548.
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Thomas Brigham (c. 1549–bu. 8 November 1586) married Gillian ___ about 1571. Thomas was a cloth worker.
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Thomas Brigham was baptized on 21 May 1575 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor. He died by 19 March 1632/3. He married Isabel Watson. Isabel, the daughter of James Watson, was baptized on 21 February 1560/1 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor and was buried on 25 June 1634. She married first Richard Ellithorpe, on 4 February 1600/1.

Children of Thomas Brigham and Isabel Watson: i. Constance was born about 1601. ii. Anne was born about 1606. She married first Simon Crosby on 21 April 1634. She died on 11 October 1675 in Braintree. She married second Reverend William Tompson of Braintree. Simon and Ann came to New England on the Susan and Ellen in the spring of 1635.

Constance, the daughter of Thomas Brigham and Isabel Watson of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor was born about 1601. [1] She was buried on 25 January 1683/4 in Rowley. [1][2]

Constance was the widow of Robert Crosby of Holme, Cambridgeshire. [3] She came to New England as a widow with three daughters and was granted a houselot in Rowley. [2]

Ezekiel Rogers, a Yorkshire minister, came with about 20 families to Boston in 1638. On 13 March 1638/9 land between Ipswich and Newbury was laid out. Settlement began in April 1639 and the town of Rowley was incorporated that September. Constance was one of Rogers's company. [3]

Children of Robert Crosby and Constance Brigham: Children baptized in Holme [3]

i. John Crosby was baptized on 25 January 1623/4.

ii. Jane Crosby was baptized on 22 April 1627.

iii. Mary Crosby was baptized on 4 December 1629. She buried on 29 November 1667 in Rowley. She married Richard Longhorne.

iv. Robert Crosby was baptized on 22 July 1632..

v. Hannah Crosby was baptized on 31 October 1634.

Endnotes:

1. Paul W. Prindle, "Yorkshire Ancestry of the Three Crosby Sisters of Rowley, Mass.," New England Historica and Genealogical Register 119 (1965): 243–8.

2. Emma Elisabeth Brigham, The History of the Brigham Family, vol. 2 (Rutland, VT: Tuttle Co., 1927)

3. Patricia Law Hatcher, "Ezekiel Rogers' Company," Great Migration Newsletter 18 (2009): 19–22, 27–30.

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