Jane Barbour

• Not a known wife of John Bancroft
• Not the same as Ann Bancroft
• Not the same as Jane Barcroft

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Disambiguation

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Coggins-2

It appears that John Bancroft married another Jane in Derby, not Jane Bonython of Cornwall. So far, there is no original document that I have found.

Please offer documentation of the extremely unlikely match of a Cornwall heiress Jane Bonython marrying John Bancroft who was a man of very modest means living on the other side of England, and then traveling to America to live in comparative poverty.

John and Jane would have been from totally different social classes, who normally did not marry in that era. They were also born in totally different regions of England.

Since the Bonython family had two castles, any marriage would have taken place at a castle in Cornwall, yet the family trees online vaguely say John and Jane were married in Swarkston Derby with no parish details given. So, where is the record of these nuptials? There is only a family tree record of a John Bancroft marrying a plain Jane, with no last name.

If Jane had been the heiress from Cornwall she would have had many wealthy and titled suitors approach her father asking for her hand and discussing dowry arrangements.

My guess is that someone just tacked this noble family onto the modest Bancroft tree