Ann Bancroft

Her name was Ann. Not the same as Jane Barbour. Not the same as Jane Barcroft

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/121770/what-do-we-know-about-john-banc...

The widow Bancroft of Lynn, quite probably identical with the Widow Bancroft of Southampton MAY have been the wife of and widow of John Bancroft, brother of poet Thomas, whose poem indicates John did not make it to New England. She MIGHT have been the mother of the Connecticut three, but there is no confirmed proof of it.

Fictional children

Researchers McCracken and Jacobus insist Samuel, William and Ebenezer Bancroft were fictional names.[1]

Disambiguation

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/121770/what-do-we-know-about-john-banc...

for many years/decades, it was believed that John Bancroft, husband of widow Bancroft and father of the three Connecticut Bancrofts was one and the same with John Barcrofte and his wife Jane who came over on the James in 1632. But that's been pretty soundly disproven. But that's where "Jane" came from.

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Family

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwg356.htm#20811

John BANCROFT [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born 1596 in Swarkestone, Derbyshire, England. He died May 1635 in Kings Newton, Derbyshire, England. John married 6 Anne on 1619 in Swarkestone, Derbyshire, England.

Anne 1 was born 1599 in Swarkestone, Derbyshire, England. She married 2 John BANCROFT on 1619 in Swarkestone, Derbyshire, England.

They had the following children:

• F i Elizabeth BANCROFT was born 1620 and died 20 May 1704.
• F ii Sarah BANCROFT was born 1622.
• M iii John BANCROFT was born 1624 and died 6 Aug 1662.
• F iv Anna BANCROFT was born 1626 and died Mar 1694.
• M v Thomas BANCROFT was born 1628 and died 14 Dec 1684

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Disputed Origins

Coggins has been mentioned in other research for a possible maiden name, but without supporting documentation for this presumption.

Her name was not Jane.

There was a Jane BARCROFTE, wife of John Barcrofte of Boston (who came on the James in 1632), no record of whom is found after 1633.
She was NOT the wife of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Connecticut. This theory was disproven in 1961. See Barber's profile for details.

Biography

Anne (possibly Coggins, but not proven) was named as wife in the 1634/5 will of John Bancroft, along with seven children, only one named -- eldest son John. This same will includes language that suggests that the family was going to move away.

It is therefore believed that she was the "widow Bancroft" of Lynn, Massachusetts, then of Southampton, Long Island, and mother of at least the three likely Bancroft siblings of Connecticut River Valley -- John, Anne/Hannah, and Thomas.

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Coggins-2

("Sailed to America on the "James" in 1632")

It appears that John Bancroft married another Jane in Derby, not Jane Bonython of Cornwall. So far, there is no original document that I have found.

Please offer documentation of the extremely unlikely match of a Cornwall heiress Jane Bonython marrying John Bancroft who was a man of very modest means living on the other side of England, and then traveling to America to live in comparative poverty.

John and Jane would have been from totally different social classes, who normally did not marry in that era. They were also born in totally different regions of England.

Since the Bonython family had two castles, any marriage would have taken place at a castle in Cornwall, yet the family trees online vaguely say John and Jane were married in Swarkston Derby with no parish details given. So, where is the record of these nuptials? There is only a family tree record of a John Bancroft marrying a plain Jane, with no last name.

If Jane had been the heiress from Cornwall she would have had many wealthy and titled suitors approach her father asking for her hand and discussing dowry arrangements.

My guess is that someone just tacked this noble family onto the modest Bancroft tree.

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Due to the political, social and religious upheavals in England, Jane Bonython Bancroft sailed to America on the James in 1632 with her husband John Bancroft shortly before the the English Civil War when some upper-class English emigrated to America.

Image is of the "James" which brought John Bancroft and his wife Jane Bonython to to Massachusetts in 1632.

After her husband died, widow Jane Bancroft sold her acres of land in Massachusetts Colony and was among the first English to live briefly in what later became New York (East Hamptons). She then married Thomas Barber who was among the party of English who founded Connecticut Colony where the Farmington River empties into the Connecticut River later called the town of Windsor. It was at Hartford where Jane eventually died.

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JOHN5 BANCROFT, born 1596 (Son of: THOMAS4, grandson of: RALPH3, great grandson of: JOHN2, great great-grandson of: WILLIAM1)5,6,7,8

He was born Abt. 1596 in Swarkston, on the Trent, Derbyshire, England, and died 1637 in Lynn, Essex County, MA.

He married (2) JANE BOHYTHON Abt. 1622 in Swarkston, Derbyshire, England, daughter of JOHN BONYTHON and ELEANOR MYLLAYTON. She was born Abt. 1601 in Swarkston, Derbyshire, England, and died Bef. 1644 in Windsor, Hartford, CT.

Notes for JOHN BANCROFT, 1596: John and Jane were Puritans, they sold their holding in Swarkeston and decided to emigrate to New England.

They traveled on the ship the "James" from London, and left on April 12, 1632 and arrived in Boston, MA June 12, 1632. Soon after their arrival, John was fined L40 and had to promise that his wife Jane would be in good behavior. Rumors were that Jane was found in the Captain's cabin.

John settled in Lynne, MA from 1632 and he died in 1637.

His widow received 100 acres of land at Lynn, MA in 1638. November 19, 1644, Jona Stratton and Thos Talmadge, Jr. of Southampton L.I. petitioned to buy the land that was widow Bancroft's.

Tradition in the Bancroft family says that she married a man who removed her and her children John and Thomas to CT.

Notes for JANE BOHYTHON: After John's death in 1637, Jane moved to Southampton, NY, and thence to Connecticut. She died before November 19, 1644, when we find Johnathan Stratton and Thomas Talmadge Jr. of Southampton, petitioning for a settlement between them of the lot "which was formerly granted to Widow Bancroft". Her children John, Thomas and Anna, later moved to the Connecticut Valley.

Children of JOHN BANCROFT and JANE BOHYTHON are:

i. THOMAS6 BANCROFT, LIEUT. 1622, b. 1622, Swarkston, Derbyshire, England; d. August 19, 1691, Age 69 in Lynnfield, MA

ii. JOHN BANCROFT, 1623, b. 1623, Swarkston, on the Trent, Derbyshire, England; d. August 06, 1662, Windsor, CT.

iii. HANNAH (ANNA) BANCROFT, b. Abt. 1627, Tiverton, Devonshire, England; d. December 14, 1684, Simsbury, Hartford, CT.

iv. SAMUEL BANCROFT, 1634, b. 1634, Windsor, Simsbury,Hartford, CT/Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.

v. ELIZABETH BANCROFT, b. 1634, Essex, England; m. THOMAS TALMAGE.

vi. WILLIAM BANCROFT, 1636, b. 1636, Windsor, Hartford, CT.

vii. STEPHEN BANCROFT, b. 1638, Derbyshire, England.

viii. CORNELIUS BANCROFT, b. 1640, Derbyshire, England.

ix. SARAH BANCROFT, 1642, b. 1642, Derbyshire, England.

Jane - Arrived with husband and children in the 'James.' Jane married second about 1640 Thomas BARBER.

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/121770/what-do-we-know-about-john-banc...

"Thomas Bancroft of Dedham and Reading, Mass., and some of his Descendants: Correction: -- In the article above cited (The Register, vol. 94, p. 215) the statement is made that Lieut. Thomas Bancroft, the early settler of Dedham and Reading, was a brother of John Bancroft, who was in Lynn, Mass., in 1632, where he died in 1637 [sic], and his widow Jane [sic], with her children, removed to Long Island and later to Connecticut, where died in or before 1644.
reference to Mr. Lea's paper on John Bancroft and his family (ibid., vol. 56, p. 197) shows this to be impossible, as Thomas Bancroft, brother of John, remained in England where he died leaving issue. Lieut. Thomas may have been the child of John's other brother, Ralph."

GEDCOM Note

[g675.ftw] Awarded 100 acres of land at Lynn in 1668.

References

• New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635. Vol 1, A-F. “John Barcroft.” Page 91 - 92.AncestryImage