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On 28 Oct 2018 Robin Lee wrote on Errington-4:

[[Errington-4]] and Unknown-404815 appear to represent the same person because: No primary or derivative sources for the last name shown. Derivative sources indicate her name is Unknown.

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Leicestershire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records

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Text:	Bancrofte, Thos., Swarston, Derby. 1626. Book, 3, fo. 32. Errington, Rebecca, w., Osgathorpe; at Osgathorpe.
Book:	Calendar of Wills Proved and of Administrations Granted in the Commissary Court of the Peculiar and Exempt Jurisdiction of Groby, 1580-1800. (Will)
Collection:	Leicestershire: - Marriage Licences, 1570-1729

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Leicestershire, England, Extracted Church of England Parish Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.

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Thomas Bancroft was a native of Swarkestone, a Derbyshire village on the River Trent: he has an epigram in celebration of his father and mother buried in Swarkestone Church. He matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1613,^[2] where he was a contemporary of James Shirley, to whom he addresses an epigram. He was an usher (a junior grammar school master who taught the rudiments of Latin to 7- to 10-year-old students) at Market Bosworth grammar school in Leicestershire, a position he acquired through his connection with Sir John Harpur of Swarkestone, who was related to the family of Wolstan Dixie, the school's founder. In 1626 he married Rebecca Errington, a widow from Osgathorpe. Bancroft's sister, Elizabeth, had married a John Errington in 1621, perhaps the brother of Rebecca's husband.^[3

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CLUES ONLY

Rebecca widow of John Errington

 had had three sons by John: John, Hugh and Nicholas ERRINGTON. John the eldest may be of particular interest because he married an Elizabeth Bancroft (step-sister perhaps?) in 1621 in Leicestershire and had children John and Rebecca by her - baptised in Belton in 1625 and 1628 respectively.

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looking for Rebecca Badeger as John Errington's wife/widow

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Thanks Eddie.  Is PLMA "Modern Language Association"?  Are we certain this is the correct Thomas Bancroft matching this profile?

According to the following link it was a different Thomas, different dod than this profile.  This Thomas died 1626-27.

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Rebecca Errington married Thomas Bancroft,  the poet. Born 1596, died 1658.

So, her LNAB is wrong and Thomas is wrong

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http://www.jstor.org/stable/457950?seq=1

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he wrote an epigram about his parents

Ralph and Alice

they were from Swarkestone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarkestone

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. In one of the poems, he commemorates his brother John's short life in New England; `You sold your land the lighter hence to go To foreign coasts, yet (Fate would have it so) Did ne'er New England reach, but went with them That journey toward New Jerusalem.'"

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Have you read the article "Bancrofts in the Connecticut Valley" by George E. McCraken Ph.D., FASG in TAG Vol. 37 (1961)? This article is the best attempt I have seen to unravel the Bancroft line.  He calls in to question a lot of the information given earlier by Mr. Lea in NEHGR.

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I can only read what's online right now. The University and local public libraries are corona closed. I was beginning my PhD dissertation and WHAMMO. Closed up. And now, the aura about the dissert is evaporating. Heavy sigh. I'll never be a Doc of Fine Arts. Heavy sigh

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If you would like a copy of the article I can email it to you.

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Not an answer, but fantastic that you are working on these Bancrofts, Stu! These profiles are so full of errors, but I have not been able to find a solid reference point for starting to untangle them. Good luck!

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As you have no doubt realised, there are two related families, one from Chellaston and one from Swarkestone, very much intertwined.

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Yes I have discovered the there were two Thomas' is the same neck of the woods.  I was surprised to see that there are no good article etc. I past 50 years that I could find anyway.

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I'll have to dig out my notes from long ago. I have downloaded the wills from FMP, which make it clear that these profiles conflate different people. What they don't make clear is what the correct relationships are. Happy to compare notes and try to resolve this mess.

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Thanks Stephen.  Look forward to hearing back from you.

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I've just discovered this post.   A month or so ago I took my mother's Bancroft line back to Swarkstone / Chellaston.  I do hope I haven't made things worse!

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Not at all - a great help to have this branch added! I just completed the merge of William Bancroft this morning, but I'm not sure that all of the family is correct (wife, eldest and youngest son in particular), so intend to review as soon as possible. Be delighted to compare notes! My interest is a purely geographic one, by the way, as Derbyshire team leader.