Ancestry of
Bing Crosby

Singer and Movie Actor

Ruby Foster

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Bing Crosby — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 17 
  • Father:
  • Chillingsworth Foster 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Freeman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 May 1783 
  • Birth Location:
  • Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Jun 1855 
  • Death Location:
  • Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Burying Ground, Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Crosby
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 May 1805 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Nathaniel Crosby (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  Clanrick Crosby

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources claim that Ruby (Foster) Crosby died in 1837. The tombstone for Ruby clearly shows that she died in 1855. The 1837 death must be for a different Ruby Foster.

• Sources for Ruby Foster

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A028098.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/25/2013).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brewster, Vol. 1, p. 63, Birth record for Ruby Foster.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brewster, Vol. 1, p. 64, Birth record for Nathaniel Crosby.
  • ⁵ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #82971, Membership application for Edward John Crosby.
  • ⁶ Freeman, Frederick, Freeman Genealogy, in Three Parts, Boston: Franklin Press; Rand, Avery, and Company (1875), 186.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 117.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 280.