English: habitational name from any of various minor places called Bancroft from Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) + croft ‘paddock smallholding’.
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Records of the General Conference of the Protestant Missionaries of China, held at Shanghai, May 10-24, 1877
What is the origin of the name Bancroft?
English: habitational name from any of various minor places called Bancroft from Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) + croft ‘paddock smallholding’.