Last name: BANCROFT
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BANCROFT : This last name is indexed 85,397 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BANCROFT : 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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