Ancestry of
Bing Crosby

Singer and Movie Actor

Lydia Sparrow

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Bing Crosby — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 281 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Sparrow 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Bangs   
  • Birth Date:
  • from 19 Nov 1660 to Sep 1664 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 16 Mar 1708/1709 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • William Freeman
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1684 
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  William Freeman Jr. (Ahnentafel No:140 )

  Lydia Freeman

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  • Spouse:
  • Jonathan Higgins Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 27 Apr 1696

• Sources for Lydia Sparrow

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1866, Vol. 20, p. 61.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 2000, Vol. 75, p. 127.
  • ³ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 336.
  • ⁴ Cutter, William Richard, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex Co., Mass., Vol. 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1498.
  • ⁵ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, pp. 363-364.
  • ⁶ Freeman, Frederick, Freeman Genealogy, in Three Parts, Boston: Franklin Press; Rand, Avery, and Company (1875), 28, 41-42.
  • ⁷ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 29-30, 39, 42.
  • ⁸ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 3rd edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 89-90.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 117.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 68, 96, 280.