WILLIAM BANCROFT - Biography

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This biography appears on page 668 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

WILLIAM BANCROFT, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Rochester; born in Yorkshire,
England, in 1821; came to Dover in July, 1844, with his parents; his
father, James Bancroft, was born in Yorksbire, in 1802; married, in
Yorkshire, Ann Walker; in 1845, he bought eighty acres in Sec. 17, and
returned to England with his wife and one child, and both died while
there. They had four children, two now residents of Dover- William and
Sarah. Sarah married John Noble, Jr., and resides in Dover. William
Bancroft married, in Dover, May 15, 1845, Caroline Earnshaw, daughter of
John and Sarah Earnshaw, old residents of Dover. In 1846, he took up
forty acres of Government land in Burlington, Wis.; sold it in 1854, and
bought forty acres in Sec. 17, and built the residence he now occupies,
with barns, etc., and otherwise improved it. They attend the Bible
Christian Church, a branch of the Methodist Church.