Bancroft Family History
Bancroft Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various minor places called
Bancroft, from Old English bean ‘beans’ (a collective
singular) + croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bancroft
Name Distribution of Bancroft Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bancroft families
 96 - 189  33 - 95 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bancroft families
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470 - 938 157 - 469 |
1 - 156 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bancroft families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bancroft census records
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Bancroft Family Origin
Bancroft Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Bancroft
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Bancroft Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Bancroft Civil War Service Records
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