The origin of the name Bancroft is English and the Coat of Arms contains Gold on a blue bend between six blue crosses three garbs. The Crest is A wheatsheaf between two wings.
Spelling variations include: Bancroft, Bancrofte, Bamcroft and others.
First found in Cheshire, where they held a family seat from ancient times, long before the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: John Bancroft who settled in Lynn Massachusetts in 1632; another John and Jane settled in Boston Massachusetts in the same year.
