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Clan Crosbie (Tartans, Crest) and The Story Behind

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Crosbie

Clan Crest: Out of a mount a tree trunk sprouting out new branches, all Proper

Clan Motto: Resurgam (I shall rise again)

Origin of Name: Placename

Region: Lowlands

Clan Chief: None, armigerous clan

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Crosbie Clan History

Crosbie is a common name in Scotland and England, and it can also be found in Ireland. This name has multiple origins and there is no single Crosbie Family tree.

Crosbie is a Scottish and English surname derived from the Old Norse words kross and byr, which mean cross and farm. The cross refers to a stone cross that was erected along a road near a settlement. So this name was given to someone who lived on the farm near the cross. This was known as Mac a Chrosáin in Gaelic. There is a branch in Ireland that derives their name from the bard Pádraic Mac Crosáin or Mac An Chrosáin, who took the name Patrick Crosbie around 1583, and his Crosbie descendants can trace their name origin to him.

Crosbie/Corsbie is a place name in Scotland that is common in Wigtownshire and Dumfriesshire, as well as Ayr, Kirkcudbright, and Berwick. So much of the story revolves around the Scottish lowlands and borders, where the Crosbie family has owned land since before the Norman Conquest, according to some. Strathclyde Briton was the name.

1900s Portpatrick, Wigtownshire

Another branch, of Norse descent, came over with the Normans. Sir John de CROSEBI, a Norseman whose ancestors settled in Normandy with Rollo in a place called Corbic in Picardy. The name was spelled CROSBJ at the time. He arrived in England and was given lands that he named Crosbie after himself. Adam Crosbie (born 1150) descended from this family and received a grant of land in Annandale from Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale. Euphemia, Adam's daughter, married Robert de Brus, while Ivo, her brother, is said to have married a natural daughter of Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale. Several land grants were made in the Annan and Cummertrees areas after that.

Every branch of the Crosbies can boast a number of notable people bearing this surname. There are seventeen coats of arms, several nobles, a Lord Mayor of London (Brass Crosby, 1770), many Crosbie locations, and evidence of early landownership. They are a well-documented family; for example, in 1178, Iuone de Crosseby witnessed a charter granted to Arbroath Abbey by Robert de Bruys (main image).

Crosbie Towers is located in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire.

Crosbies were among the early settlers in America, where the family prospered, and where nearly 40,000 people bear this name today. In Australia and New Zealand, a Crosbie Settlement was established by Thomas Hunter Crosbie, who was born in Scotland in 1840 and emigrated to New Zealand.

Crosbie Estate in New Zealand

Clan Crosbie Places & People

This section is currently being researched.

Crosbie Tartans

The Crosby/Crosbie tartan was created for Mr C. J. Crosby of Driffield, Yorkshire, and was registered in 1999. The tartan was inspired by the Bruce tartan.

The Crosby tartan is not widely available on the market. Because Crosbie is a sept of Clan Bruce, people with the Crosbie surname may wear the Bruce tartans.

Tartan Crosby/Crosbie

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Bruce Contemporary

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Bruce the Elder

Clan Crosbie Crest & Coats of Arms

Crosbie Clan Crest

Worn by everyone with the same name and ancestry

Description of the Crest:

A tree trunk sprouting new branches from a mount, all Proper

Coats of Arms for the Clan Crosbie

A word about Coats of Arms:

A coat of arms is granted to an individual under Scottish heraldic law (with the exception of civic or corporate arms). A 'family coat of arms' does not exist. With the exceptions noted above, the arms depicted below are personal arms. Only the person who has been granted these weapons has the right to use them.