Ancestry of
David Crosby

Singer and Songwriter

Katharine Van Rensselaer

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• • Great-grandmother of David Crosby — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 11 
  • Father:
  • Henry Bell Van Rensselaer 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Ray King   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Aug 1849 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Nov 1901 
  • Death Location:
  • Manhattan, New York, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Jamaica, Queens, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Francis C. Delafield
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Jan 1870 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Manhattan, New York, New York 
  • Child:

  Julia Floyd Delafield (Ahnentafel No:5 )

• Sources for Katharine Van Rensselaer

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1880, New York, E.D. 289, p. 5, Image 5 of 31.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/22/2023).
  • ³ New York City, Compiled Marriage Index, 1600s-1800s, Marriage record for Francis Delafield and Catharine Van Rensslaer.
  • ⁴ New York, New York, U.S., Death Index, 1892-1898, 1900-1902, Death record for Kathne V R Delafield.
  • ⁵ New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948, Death record for Katne V R Delafield.
  • ⁶ New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937, Marriage record for Francis Delafield and Catharine Van Rensslaer.
  • ⁷ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol. 5, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1995, originally published 1912), 187.

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