Sancroft Parish

Sancroft or St. George, South Elmham

St. Cross, corrupted into Sancroft, from the family of that name, who, at a very early period, held lands in South Elmham.

Thomas, a descendant of Sir Bartholomew Bateman, of the parish of Flixton, Knt., appears to have had his residence in this parish. By his will, dated April 8, 1485, he gives legacies to William and Richard, his sons; and to Elizabeth and Olive, his daughters: to Robert, his son and heir, his manors of Newhall and Sancroft, with the advowson of Sancroft St. George's church, together with the manor of Gillingham, in Norfolk. He ordered a tomb of free-stone to be placed over his remains, with those of Elizabeth his wife, in Flixton church.

County of Suffolk

Topographical and Genealogical, The County of Suffolk, 1844, Augustine Page

British Isles Genealogy

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