Born in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Aaron Bancroft
and Lucretia (Chandler) Bancroft
Sister of
Henry Bancroft, John Chandler Bancroft, Eliza (Bancroft) Davis, Mary J Bancroft, Caroline Bancroft, Thomas Chandler Bancroft, Jane Putnam (Bancroft) Gherardi, George Bancroft, Charles Bancroft, Sarah (Bancroft) Blake, Dorothy Ward Bancroft and Anne (Bancroft) Ingalls
[spouse(s) unknown]
Died
at age 84
in At Sea
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Biography
Lucretia was born on 19 May 1803 in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Aaron Bancroft and Lucretia Chandler.[1][2]
Lucretia (age 42), daughter of Aaron Bancroft & Lucretia Bancroft, married Welcome Farnum on 2 June 1845 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.[3]
Lucretia died aboard the steamship Eider on 8 October 1887.[4] Lucretia was mentioned on a memorial in Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States with a death date of 7 October 1887.[5]
Sources
- ↑
Birth:
"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
citing FHL microfilm: 864093;
FamilySearch Record: VQX2-74H (accessed 23 December 2022)
Lucretia Bancroft born on 19 May 1803, daughter of Aaron Bancroft & Lucretia, in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. - ↑ 'The Chandler family. The descendants of William and Annis Chandler who settled in Roxbury, Mass., 1637 by Chandler, George, 1806-1893', 1883, pp 468, archive.org (accessed 23 December 2022)
- ↑
Marriage:
"Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"
citing FHL microfilm: 001428256; Record number: 198;
FamilySearch Record: N4Q2-QWJ (accessed 23 December 2022)
FamilySearch Image: S3HY-DY4S-1ZB Image number 00362
Lucretia Bancroft (42) marriage to Welcome Farnum on 2 Jun 1845 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. - ↑
Death:
"U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930"
Newspapers and Periodicals. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 50015 #487633 (accessed 23 December 2022)
Lucretia Bancroft Farnum death 8 Oct 1887. - ↑
Memorial:
Find a Grave (has image)
Find A Grave: Memorial #110742433 (accessed 23 December 2022)
Memorial page for Lucretia Bancroft Farnum (19 May 1803-7 Oct 1887), citing Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by DaurRegt (contributor 47891223).
- 'Ancestry of John Davis, governor and U. S. Senator; and Eliza Bancroft, his wife; both of Worcester, Massachusetts by Davis, Horace, 1831-1916', 1897, pp 56, archive.org (accessed 23 December 2022)
- Bancroft, Lucretia Chandler, 1765-1839, Jane Putnam Bancroft Gherardi, Horace Davis, and Andrew McFarland Davis. A Letter to Her Daughter Mrs. Gherardi With Introduction by Horace Davis And Historical Notes by Andrew McFarland Davis. Worcester, Mass.: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1901. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044086354396?urlappend=%3Bseq=18%3Bownerid=4332547-20
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