Ancestry of
David Crosby

Singer and Songwriter

John Crookshanks King

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of David Crosby — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 26 
  • Father:
  • William King 
  • Mother:
  • Catharine -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Oct 1806 
  • Birth Location:
  • Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Apr 1881 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Luke
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  • Child:

  Charlotte Burgoyne King (Ahnentafel No:13 )

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  • Sculptor

    John Crookshanks King's middle name is also seen as Cruikshanks.

• Sources for John Crookshanks King

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Norfolk County, 1850, Roxbury, Image 254 of 438.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Norfolk County, 1860, Roxbury Ward 4, p. 76, Image 78 of 90.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Death record for John King.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 205, Birth record for daughter Charlotte Burgoyne King.
  • ⁵ Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 1, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1888), Vol. 3, p. 540.
  • ⁶ Yale University, Bulletin of Yale University: Obituary Record of Yale Graduates, 1920-1921, New Haven: Published by the University (1921), 633.

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