Ancestry of
Bing Crosby
Singer and Movie Actor
Who was Bing Crosby?
Bing Crosby was an American singer and movie actor. His record albums have sold over half a billion copies and he has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for motion pictures, radio, and audio recording. He is the first actor to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the same character, Father Chuck O'Malley in Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's. He won the award for Going My Way.
Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby on 03 May 1903 in Tacoma, Washington. His parents were Harry Lincoln Crosby (aka Harry Lowe Crosby) and Catherine Harrigan. It is said that his nickname Bing was derived from “Bingo from Bingville” which a neighborhood kid had taken to calling him. The name was a reference to humorist Newton Newkirks hillbilly parody The Bingville Bugle which was a feature in the Sunday edition of the Spokane newspaper The Spokesman-Review.
Famous Kin
Bing Crosby has a number of Mayflower kinships. He is the direct descendant of William Brewster and a 7th great-grandnephew of John Howland and Edward Winslow. His presidential connections include Zachary Taylor, Rutherford B. Hayes, Calvin Coolidge, Ulysses S. Grant and others. He has a kinship to the current royal family of Queen Elizabeth II and to the infamous, accused murderess Lizzie Borden.
Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Bing Crosby
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Theatre, TV and Movie Actress
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Theatre, TV and Movie Actress
15th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Sherburne
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood
Leader of the Rough Riders
9th cousin 2 times removed
via Alexander Carpenter
Endicott Peabody
62nd Governor of Massachusetts
20th cousin 1 time removed
via Edward I, King of England
Endicott Peabody
62nd Governor of Massachusetts
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Elizabeth de Badlesmere
Alexander Spotswood
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
12th cousin 9 times removed
via Edward I, King of England
Alexander Spotswood
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
10th cousin 9 times removed
via Richard FitzAlan
William Fishback
17th Governor of Arkansas
18th cousin 3 times removed
via Edward I, King of England
William Fishback
17th Governor of Arkansas
18th cousin 2 times removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot
Founder, Washington Univ - St Louis
16th cousin 4 times removed
via Humphrey de Bohun
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