When Lucinda Bancroft was born on 6 March 1785, in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Caleb Bancroft, was 31 and her mother, Susansa Tay, was 30. She married Philip Sargent on 27 February 1802. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1846, at the age of 61.
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English: habitational name from any of various minor places called Bancroft, from Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) + croft ‘paddock, smallholding’.
History: John Bancroft came to MA on board the ‘James’ in 1632.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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