'Bacon02'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Bacon of Friston, Bacon of Garboldisham, Bacon of Gillingham, Bacon of Herringfleet, Bacon of Mildenhall, Bacon of Redgrave, Bacon of Shrubland
| Robert Bacon of Drinkstone and Hessett (d 1548) | |||||||||||||||
| m. Isabel Cage (dau of John Cage of Pakenham) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Thomas Bacon (a 1547, dsp, alderman of London) | ||||||||||||||
| m. _ Brown | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | Sir Nicholas Bacon (b 1509/0, d 20.02.1578-9, keeper of the Great Seal) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Jane Fernley (d before 15557, dau of William Fernley of West Creeting) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Sir Nicholas Bacon of Culworth or Culford and Redgrave, 1st Bart of Redgrave (b 1540, d 12.11.1624) | ||||||||||||||
| Nicholas was the first person to be created a Baronet, on 22.05.1611. | |||||||||||||||
| m. (1564) Anne Butts (b c1549, d 19.09.1616, dau of Edmund Butts of Thornage by Anne, dau of Henry Buers (Bures)) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Sir Edmund Bacon, 2nd Bart of Redgrave (dsp 10.04.1649) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Philippa Wotton (d 01.10.1626, dau of Edward, Lord Wotton of Marley) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Sir Robert Bacon of Riborough, 3rd Bart of Redgrave (bur 16.12.1655) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Anne Peyton (bur 27.09.1640, dau of Sir John Peyton, 1st Bart of Isleham) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Robert Bacon (dvp 25.08.1652) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Catherine Violet (dau of Grave Violet of Pynkney House) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Bart of Redgrave (d 12.09.1685) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1650) Elizabeth or Katharine Crane (dau of Sir Robert Crane, Bart of Chilton) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Frances Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Walter Norborne of Calne | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Elizabeth Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Ettrick of the Middle Temple (d 1716) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Susannah Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Charles Morris of Loddington | |||||||||||||||
| (D) | Philippa Bacon (bur 12.07.1710) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (12.1688) Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Bart of Gillingham (bpt 06.04.1672, d 10.07.1721) @1@ below | |||||||||||||||
| (E)+ | other issue (dvp) - 6 sons and 6 daughters | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Jemima Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Thomas Gardiner | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir John Bratell | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Philippa Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir George Reeve, Bart | |||||||||||||||
| (4) | Frances Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Paul Bockenham of Great Thornham | |||||||||||||||
| (5) | Anne Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edmund Yaxlee of Yaxlee | |||||||||||||||
| b. | Butts Bacon (d 01.1662) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Catherine Tracy (dau of Sir John Tracy of Stanhow) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Sir Robert Bacon of Garboldisham, 5th Bart of Redgrave (d 31.01.1704) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Chandler (d 21.12.1686, dau of Daniel Chandler) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Sir Edmund Bacon of Garboldisham, 6th Bart of Redgrave (d 30.04.1755) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (27.11.1712) Mary Kemp (d 14.09.1727, dau of Sir Robert Kemp, Bart) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Letitia Bacon (bur 07.04.1758) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (03.10.1738) Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Bart of Kimberley (b 1714, d 21.05.1777) | |||||||||||||||
| (ii) | Sarah Bacon (d 20.05.1767) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (20.09.1752) Pryse Campbell of Stackpole Court, younger of Cawdor (dvp 14.12.1768) | |||||||||||||||
| (iii)+ | other issue - Mary, Elizabeth (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| c. | Peyton Bacon of Riborough or Ryborrow or Ryburgh (bpt 1620) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (06.1647) Elizabeth Suckling (d before 30.04.1703, dau of Charles Suckling of Wotton) | |||||||||||||||
| The following are named in Visitation (Norfolk, 1664, Bacon of Ryburgh). | |||||||||||||||
| (1)+ | issue (a 1664) - Robert (b c1648, dvp), Nicholas (bpt 1649), Anne (bpt 1650) | ||||||||||||||
| d. | Nicholas Bacon (dsp, 9th son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Hobart of Thwaite | |||||||||||||||
| e. | Philippa Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Hamon Claxton of Lavermore | |||||||||||||||
| f. | Anne Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Thomas Hunt of Sharington | |||||||||||||||
| g. | Alice Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Richard Gwyn of Fakenham | |||||||||||||||
| h.+ | other issue (d young) - Edmund, Nathaniel, Edmund, Francis, Drury | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Katherine named in Visitation (Suffolk, 1664-8, Bacon of Redgrave) | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Sir Butts Bacon, 1st Bart of Mildenhall (d 29.05.1661) - continued below | ||||||||||||||
| m. Dorothea Warner (d 04.09.1657, dau of Sir Henry Warner of Mildenhall) | |||||||||||||||
| iv. | Nicholas Bacon of Gillingham (d before 13.08.1641) | ||||||||||||||
| The following is partly supported by Visitation (Norfolk, 1664, Bacon of Gillingham). | |||||||||||||||
| m1. Anne Weston (dau of Sir James Weston) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Anne Bacon (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1636) Sir John Rous, Bart | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (26.10.1622) Margaret Darcy (d 1639, dau of Eustace Darcy of Bury St. Edmunds) | |||||||||||||||
| b. | Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Bart of Gillingham (bpt 31.01.1623, d 03.08.1666) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (31.05.1647) Elizabeth Freston (d 1674, dau of Richard Freston of Mendham, she m2. Sir William Godbold) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Sir Nicholas or Edmund Bacon, 2nd Bart of Gillingham (b c1650, d 1683) | ||||||||||||||
| (2) | Sir Richard Bacon of Gillingham, 3rd Bart (dsp bur 08.10.1685) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Bacon (dau of Sir Henry Bacon of Herringfleet, 2nd Bart of Mildenhall) @2@ below | |||||||||||||||
| v. | Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Culford | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Meautys (dau of Hercules Meautys) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Anne Bacon (bur 20.09.1680) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir Thomas Meautys | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir Harbottle Grimston (b 27.01.1602-3, d 02.01.1684-5) | |||||||||||||||
| b.+ | other issue - Nicholas (dspm), Jane (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| vi. | Anne Bacon (d 1624) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead (b 1574, d 1615) | |||||||||||||||
| vii. | Dorothy Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (30.04.1595) Sir Bassingbourn Gawdy (b 19.05.1560, bur 23.05.1606) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Philip Colby | |||||||||||||||
| viii. | Jemima Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir William Waldegrave (d 25.11.1613) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Henry Killigrew | |||||||||||||||
| B. | Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Stifkey (b c1546, bur 07.11.1622) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Anne Gresham (natural dau of Sir Thomas Gresham of Osterley Park) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Anne Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir John Townshend of Rainham (d 02.08.1603) | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Elizabeth Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Thomas Knyvet of Aswelthorp (dvp bur 20.09.1605) | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Winifred Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Robert Gawdy of Claxton (d before 02.10.1639) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Dorothy Hopton (dau of Sir George (or Arthur) Hopton, widow of William Smith) | |||||||||||||||
| C. | Edward Bacon of Shrubland Hall | ||||||||||||||
| m. Helen Littel (dau of Thomas Littel or Little of Shrubland Hall) | |||||||||||||||
| The following comes from Visitation (Suffolk, 1664-8, Bacon of Shrubland in Barham). | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Nicholas Bacon of Shrubland | ||||||||||||||
| m. (15.07.1612) Martha Bingham (dau of Sir Richard Bingham of Bingham Melcomb) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir Nicholas Bacon of Shrubland | ||||||||||||||
| m. Bridget Tallemache (dau of Sir Lionell Tallemache, Bart of Helmingham) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Nicholas Bacon of Shrubland (b c1656) | ||||||||||||||
| Visitation ends with this generation. This is probably the Nicholas who married ... | |||||||||||||||
| m. Catherine Montagu (b 1660, d 1757, dau of Sir Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Nicholas Bacon of Shrubland possibly of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Dorothy Temple (dau of John Temple of Moor Park) | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | John Bacon of Shrubland possibly of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| (a) | Mary Bacon (dsp 07.1802) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (24.02.1783) Sir William Johnston, 7th Bart (b 03.08.1760, d 13.01.1844) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Philip Bacon of Ipswich probably the Philip who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m. Grace Barker (dau of Sir John Barker, 4th Bart) wife of Philip, presumed mother of ... | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Bridget Bacon (dsp 03.07.1782) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (25.10.1737) Sir Cordell Firebrace of Melford Hall, 3rd Bart (b 20.02.1711-2, dsp 28.03.1759) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (07.04.1762) William Campbell of Lyston Hall (d 08.09.1787) | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Philip Bacon of Tuddenham, later of Nacton (Suffolk) (bpt 02.02.1665/6, d before 23.12.1734) probably of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (before 11.04.1692) Mary Sicklemore (bur 20.06.1694, dau of John Sicklemore of Ipswich) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Susan (a 12.1734) | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Bridget Bacon (a 1664) probably the Bridget who married ... | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir John Barker, later of Ipswich, 4th Bart of Grimston Hall (d 1696) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. John Ellis of Grey's Inn | |||||||||||||||
| (4)+ | other issue (a 1664) - Anne, Elizabeth | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Jemima Bacon probably of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Edward Vaughan of Terracoyd | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Martha Bacon (bpt 17.10.1613, bur 20.04.1699) probably of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Sicklemore of Ipswich | |||||||||||||||
| ii. | Ann Bacon (d 1659) probably of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Philip Bedingfeld of Fleming's Hall & Ditchingham (b 1587, d 1660) | |||||||||||||||
| iii. | Jane Bacon (bur 25.02.1657) possibly of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Francis Stonard of Knowles Hill (bur 31.03.1668) | |||||||||||||||
| D. | Elizabeth Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Sir Robert Doyle of Oxfordshire (dsp 1577) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir Henry Nevill of Berkshire | |||||||||||||||
| m3. Sir William Periam (not Peryent) (Lord Chief Baron) | |||||||||||||||
| E. | Anne Bacon (b c1545) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Henry Woodhouse of Waxham | |||||||||||||||
| F | Elizabeth Bacon (b c1553) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (1570) Sir Francis Windham of Felbrigg (dsp 1592, judge) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Sir Robert Mansfield of Wales | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Anne Cooke (dau of Sir Anthony Cooke of Gidea Hall) | |||||||||||||||
| G. | Anthony Bacon (b 1558, d unm 1601) | ||||||||||||||
| H. | Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans (b 22.01.1561, dsp 09.04.1626) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (10.04.1606) Alice Barnham (d 29.06.1650, dau of Benedict Barnham, alderman of London) | |||||||||||||||
| 3. | James Bacon, Sheriff of London (d 05.06.1573) | ||||||||||||||
| The following comes from Commoners (vol iv, Northey-Hopkins of Oving House) with some input from Visitation (Suffolk, 1561, Bacon of Drinkstone and Redgreave) and Visitation (Suffolk, 1664-8, Bacon of Friston Hall). | |||||||||||||||
| m1. Mary Gardener (dau of _ Gardener of Grove Place, Buckinghamshire) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Anne Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. John Ryvett ## see here ## | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Margaret Rawlins (dau of William Rawlins of London) | |||||||||||||||
| B. | Sir James (or Francis) Bacon of Friston named Francis by Commoners but James by the Visitations | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Bacon (dau of Francis Bacon of family of Hesset) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Nathaniel Bacon of Friston | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Legross (dau of Sir Thomas Legrosse or Le Gros of Crostwick) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Thomas Bacon of Friston (a 1664) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Brooke (dau of Sir Robert Brooke of Yoxford) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Nathaniel Bacon of Friston (b c1646) | ||||||||||||||
| (A) | Mary Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Hugh Chamberlen of Alderton Manor and Hinton Hall | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Elizabeth Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Martha Reade (dau of Sir John Reade) | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Martha Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Elizabeth Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Nathaniel Barnardison (son of Sir Nathaniel) | |||||||||||||||
| c. | Anne Bacon (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| C. | William Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m3. Anne Pakington (dau of Humphrey Packington, widow of ?? Jackman, alderman of London) | |||||||||||||||
| 4. | Barbara Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Sharpe of Bury St. Edmunds | |||||||||||||||
| 5. | Anne Bacon (d by 1538) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (?) Robert Blackman of Bury St. Edmunds | |||||||||||||||
| 6. | Thomazine Bacon apparently of this generation | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Valentine Browne of Totteridge, etc. (d 09.02.1588-9) | |||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
| Sir Butts Bacon, 1st Bart of Mildenhall (d 29.05.1661) - continued above | |||||||||||||||
| m. Dorothea Warner (d 04.09.1657, dau of Sir Henry Warner of Parnham & Mildenhall, widow of William Jermyn) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Sir Henry Bacon of Herringfleet, 2nd Bart of Mildenhall (d c1671) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Barbara Gooch (dau of William Gooch of Metteringham) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Sir Henry Bacon of Herringfleet & Gillingham, 3rd Bart of Mildenhall (bur 13.01.1685-6) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (29.06.1671) Sarah Castleton (d 03.02.1727, dau of Sir John Castleton, 2nd Bart) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Bart of Mildenhall & Gillingham (bpt 06.04.1672, d 10.07.1721) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (12.1688) Philippa Bacon (bur 12.07.1710, dau of Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Bart of Redgrave) @1@ above | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Bart of Mildenhall & Gillingham (b 07.08.1692, d 04.10.1738) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (07.11.1724) Susan Rebow (dau of Sir Isaac Rebow) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Sir Edmund Bacon, 6th Bart of Mildenhall & Gillingham (b 07.08.1725, d unm 06.04.1750) | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Sir Henry Bacon, 7th Bart of Mildenhall (b 05.10.1693, d unm 04.1753) | ||||||||||||||
| c. | Sir Richard Bacon, 8th Bart of Mildenhall, 7th Bart of Redgrave (b 22.02.1695, dsps 26.03.1773) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (29.12.1720) Bridget Mayhew (d 06.01.1725-6) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (18.07.1728/9) Lucy Gardiner (d 17.08.1765, dau of Thomas Gardiner) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. (16.04.1713) Mary Castell (dau of John Castell of Raveningham) | |||||||||||||||
| d. | Castell Bacon of Raveningham (b 1713, d 13.04.1770) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Dashwood (dau of Richard Dashwood of Cley) | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Sir Edmund Bacon, 8th Bart of Redgrave, 9th Bart of Mildenhall (b 14.10.1749, d 050.09.1820) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (20.01.1778) Anne Beauchamp (d 26.08.1813, dau of Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, Bart) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Sir Edmund Bacon, 9th Bart of Redgrave, 10th Bart of Mildenhall (b 06.07.1779, d 30.05.1864) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (27.08.1801) Mary Anne Elizabeth Bacon (d 24.10.1820, dau of Dashwood Bacon of Ottery St. Mary) @3@ just below | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Nicholas Bacon (b 06.06.1786, d 09.02.1863) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. (14.10.1813) Jane Bowker (d 1888, dau of Alexander Bowker of Lynn) | |||||||||||||||
| (C) | Henry Bacon, later Bacon-Hickman of Thonock Hall (b 29.10.1788, d unm 10.05.1862) | ||||||||||||||
| (D) | Anne Frances Bacon (d 02.09.1866) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (08.1803) Edward Thomas Hussey of Galtrim (b 1778, d 27.09.1846) | |||||||||||||||
| (E) | Maria Bacon (d 27.01.1864) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Edward Hodge (d Genappe 16.06.1815, Major) | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Dashwood Bacon of Ottery St. Mary (b 1752, d 1812) had issue | ||||||||||||||
| m. Anne Barbara Ogilvie (dau of _ Ogilvie of St. Christopher's) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Mary Anne Elizabeth Bacon (d 24.10.1820) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (27.08.1801) Sir Edmund Bacon, 9th Bart of Redgrave, 10th Bart of Mildenhall (b 06.07.1779, d 30.05.1864) @3@ just above | |||||||||||||||
| e. | Mary Bacon (1756) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Philip Bedingfield (b 1716, d 1791) | |||||||||||||||
| B. | Anne Bacon | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Richard Bacon of Gillingham, 3rd Bart (dsp bur 08.10.1685) @2@ above | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s):
BP1934 (Bacon) with a little support from Visitation (Suffolk, 1561, Bacon of Drinkstone and Redgrave)
Back to top of page