Abraham Bancroft, 1913-1978, Stoke-on-Trent

[andrewbarcroft]

I went to Reginal Mitchell Primary School and 'Mr Bancroft' retired took us for Pottery. He made two busts of Regional Mitchell whilst we were making crappy ashtrays as 9 or 10 year olds. I was born in 65. Very strong memories of him teaching us pottery and his unbelievable skill in creating the two busts. One used to be in the Greenhouse where the Spitfire used to be in Hanley and I think it then moved to the Museum opposite. Simple red clay bust, amazing.
I now live in Darwin, Australia, long way from Stoke.

[huxleg]

Hi kirstyf,

First of all let me apologise for not replying sooner.  Unfortunately, we had a close family bereavement in August which diverted my attention away from this subject.

The information you gave was very informative and I worked out that the Abraham I'm interested in would of been the nephew of Hudson Snr and the sister of Lilian Yates.  His father was William Thomas Bancroft and his mother was Sarah Price.  William Thomas was the brother of Hudson Snr and died while on active service in WWI.

It would appear that my Abraham did not attend the funeral of Elizabeth unlike his sister unless I've mistaken him for a different Abraham (I'll reread it just to be sure 

Anyway, if you have any pictures that you may be willing to share of the Bancroft family with me I would be very interested in seeing them.

Thank you for your help.

Kind regards,

Greg

[huxleg]

Oops - looks like he did attend he is listed under the nephews section - my mistake.

[Lj18]

Hi Huxleg

Did you have any joy finding any information/photos of the Bancroft family?

Whilst on our family holiday we got talking about Abraham and when I googled him, your post came up.

He was my Grandads uncle but unfortunately we don’t know a great deal about him.

Kind Regards