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CROSBY, Ernest
1860 - 1930 (70 years) Has 2 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name CROSBY, Ernest Birth 10 Jul 1860 Hull, Yorkshire, England 
Gender Male Death 27 Nov 1930 Withington, Manchester, Lancashire, England Person ID I380 Edgoose Last Modified 24 Feb 2026
Father CROSBY, John d. Yes, date unknown Mother WRAY, Emma d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F258 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family EDGOOSE, Adelaide Eliza, b. 29 Aug 1851, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England d. 4 Mar 1941, Fleetwood, Lancashire, England (Age 89 years) Marriage 22 Apr 1891 York, Yorkshire, England Family ID F257 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Notes - CROSBY, Ernest (1860-1930)
The birth of Ernest CROSBY was registered in 1860.
(GRO September Q 1860 [WRAY] Hull 09D 194)
The 1911 census of Westaella, Fleetwood, Lancashire:
*Ernest CROSBY, head, aged 50, married, solicitor, employer, born at Hull, Yorkshire;
Adelaide Eliza CROSBY, wife, aged 53, married 19 years, no children, born at Northallerton, Yorkshire;
Isabel LAMB, servant, aged 21, single, general servant domestic, born at Fleetwood, Lancashire.
(RG14/25457)
"Crosby.- ERNEST CROSBY, Westaella, Fleetwood; son of John CROSBY of Hull, merchant; born at Hull, July 10th, 1860; educated at Cleveland College, Darlington, College House, Baldock, Cambridgeshire, and the Moravian Institute at Neuwied-on-the-R-Rhine, Germany. Member of the Fleetwood Union District Council; elected Coronation Chairman, April, 1902; re-elected Chairman, April, 1903; has been President of the Fleetwood Branch of the British and Foreign Seamen's Society; Hon. Secretary of Fleetwood Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute; Solicitor to the Fleetwood and District Richmond Building Society; Unionist in politics; member of the Wesleyan Church, and Circuit Steward for the Blackpool Circuit; for eight years Superintendent of the Fleetwood Wesleyan Sunday Schools; Hon. Treasurer to the Local Free Church Council; largely instrumental in the erection of the New Fleetwood Wesleyan Church, of which he and his wife laid the foundation stones; Vice-President of Fleetwood Cricket Club. Married Adelaide Eliza, the daughter of the late Rev. Jesse EDGOOSE, of York"
(Contemporary Biographies - Legal, page 307, in Lancashire at the Opening of the Twentieth Century, edited by William Thomas Pike)
Ernest CROSBY of 2 Amherst-road, Withington, Manchester, died on 27 November 1930. Administration Manchester 2 January to Adelaide Eliza CROSBY widow. Effects £ 627 3s. 2d.
(National Probate Calendar 1931)
NOTES & QUERIES:
An excellent photograph of him, taken from Page 307 of Lancashire at the Opening of the Twentieth Century, appears online at Spinning the Web: Book Brouser.
(revised 09.02.2026)
- CROSBY, Ernest (1860-1930)