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Robert Bacon Bt (1574 - 1655)

Sir Robert "3rd Baronet Bacon of Redgrave" Bacon Bt
Born in Redgrave, Suffolk, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 22 Jun 1598 in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, Englandmap
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Died at age 81 in Ryburgh, Norfolk, Englandmap
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Preceded by
Sir Edmund Bacon his brother
3rd Baronet Bacon of Redgrave
1649 - 1655
Succeeded by
Sir Edmund Bacon his grandson

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Biography

Sir Robert Bacon was the 4th son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet Bacon of Redgrave, and his wife Anne Butts. He was baptised on 4 May 1574 at Redgrave, Suffolk. [1] At the death of his father in 1624, he inherited the ancestral estate of Great Ryburgh in Norfolk,[2] which remained his primary residence and the burial place of his family.[3]

At the death of his brother Sir Edmund Bacon, 2nd Bt, without issue, Sir Robert Bacon succeeded to the title as 3rd Bt. Bacon of Redgrave on 10 April 1649.[4] [3]

Contrary to some accounts, this Robert Bacon was not returned as an MP.

Marriage and family

Sir Robert Bacon married twice, but had issue only with his first wife, Anne Peyton, daughter of Sir John Peyton, 1st Bt, of Isleham in Cambridgeshire and his wife Alice Osborne. The marriage was 22 June 1598 in Isleham.[5] [6]

The children of the union were nine sons and three (four?) daughters, but of the sons most either died young or pre-deceased him without issue.[1] [3] The first few were born and baptised at their mother's home of Isleham:

Nicholas - bp. Isleham 13 May 1599 [7]; m. Margaret Hobart of Thwaite, no issue; bur. Great Ryburgh, 23 December 1630, no issue.
Edmund - bp. Isleham 13 March 1599/1600 [8]; died young.
Robert - bp. 16 September 1602; [9] m. Catherine daughter of Grave Violet 31 December 1627; [10] d. before his father on 15 August 1652 and was buried at Redgrave. Robert Bacon's only surviving son, Edmund, succeeded at 4th Bt. of Redgrave.
Nathaniel - bp. Great Ryburgh 6 March 1603/4;[11] d. May 1647, no issue.[12]
Anne - bp. Great Ryburgh 7 October 1604; m. Thomas Hunt of Sharington
Henry - bp. Great Ryburgh 28 February 1606/7; [13] died young 10 February 1610/11.[14]
Elizabeth - at Great Ryburgh, bp. and bur. (12 November) young 1608 [15] [16]
Butts - bp. Great Ryburgh 22 January 1610/11; [17] m. Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Tracey; [18]; d. January 1662.
Francis - bp. Great Ryburgh 15 February 1611/2; [19] d. young.
Alice - bp. Great Ryburgh[20] m. Richard Gwyn; d. after 1655.
Drury - bp. Great Ryburgh 26 May 1615; [21] d. unmarried.
Philippa - bp. Great Ryburg 30 September 1616; [22] m. Hammond Claxton (1624-71) of Great Livermere Suffolk.
Peyton - bp. 21 June 1620; [23] m. Elizabeth daughter of Charles Suckling, had issue.

Anne Peyton Bacon died September 1640 and was buried, according to the inscription, at Great Ryburg on 27 September.

Sir Robert Bacon afterward married secondly to a Katherin ___, but little is known of her.

Succession

Sir Robert Bacon did not live long to enjoy his baronetcy. During this time, the financial position of the estate was eroding, with numerous children to provide for and with the depredations of the Civil War. Dependents and tenants were unable to pay their rents, and valuable estates had to be sold.[24]

Sir Robert Bacon died in 1655 and was buried alongside his first wife Dame Anne Bacon at Ryburgh, where there is the memorial inscription: Sir Robert Bacon, of Redgrave, in the county of Suffolk, Bt. deceased Dec. 16, 1655, and Dame Anne, his wife, the 27, of Sept. 1640. [2]

Of all his sons, only one, Butts Bacon, survived Sir Robert. He inherited the estate of Great Ryburgh at Sir Robert's death in 1655. The baronetcy and the estate of Redgrave passed to Edmund, the only living son of eldest surviving son Robert Bacon, who predeceased the baronet in 1652. Sir Edmund succeeded in 1655 as 4th Baronet Bacon of Redgrave. [4] [2]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Landed Families of Britain and Ireland Bacon of Redgrave
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Blomefield, Francis. "Gallow and Brothercross Hundreds: Ryburgh Magna." An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 7. London: W Miller, 1807. 162-167. British History Online. Web. 17 May 2021. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol7/pp162-167.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Betham, William. The Baronetage of England, vol I, p. 29 ff. Ipswich, Burrell and Bransby, 1801-1805. Bacon of Redgrave
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Cokayne, G E. Complete Baronetage, vol 1. 1611-1625, pp. 2 - 3. Bacon of Redgrave
  5. ↑ England Marriages 1538-1973: Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. Marriage
  6. ↑ Cambridgeshire Marriages Marriage
  7. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch : 18 September 2020, Robert Bacon in entry for Nicholas Bacon, 1599.
  8. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch : 18 September 2020, Robert Bacon in entry for Edmond Bacon, 1599.
  9. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch : 18 September 2020, Robt. Bacon in entry for Robert Bacon, 1602.
  10. ↑ Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG : viewed 16 May 2021 marriage Robert Bacon to Katerine Vyolet 31 Dec 1627
  11. ↑ Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG : viewed 16 May 2021 baptism Nathaniell Bacon 6 Mar 1603/4.
  12. ↑ Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG : viewed 16 May 2021 burial Nathaniel Bacon May 1647.
  13. ↑ Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG : viewed 16 May 2021 baptism Henry Bacon 28 Feb 1606/7.
  14. ↑ Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG : viewed 16 May 2021 burial Henry Bacon 10 Feb 1610/1
  15. ↑ Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG : viewed 16 May 2021 baptism Elizabeth Bacon 1608.
  16. ↑ Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG : viewed 16 May 2021 burial Elizabeth Bacon 12 Nov 1608.
  17. ↑ Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG : viewed 16 May 2021 baptism Buttes Bacon 22 Jan 1610/1.
  18. ↑ Norfolk : Stiffkey : St John the Baptist : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG : viewed 17 May 2021 marriage Batts? Becon? to Dorothy Tracy 03 Apr 1648,
  19. ↑ Great Ryburgh Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5818f282e93790eca3209531 : viewed 16 May 2021) baptism Francis Bacon 25 Feb 1611/2.
  20. ↑ 15 March 1613/14; Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG : viewed 16 May 2021 baptism Alice Bacon 15 Mar 1613/4.
  21. ↑ Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5818f283e93790eca3209591 : viewed 16 May 2021) baptism Drary Bacon 26 May 1615.
  22. ↑ Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5818f283e93790eca32095a2 : viewed 16 May 2021) baptism Phillip Bacon 30 Sep 1616.
  23. ↑ Norfolk : Great Ryburgh : St Andrew : Register of unspecified type : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG : viewed 16 May 2021 baptism Peyton Bacon 21 Jun 1620
  24. ↑ MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Letters from Redgrave Hall. Suffolk Records Society: The Boydell Press, 2008.
  • Landed Families of Britain and Ireland [1]
  • Betham, William. The Baronetage of England, vol I, p. 32 ff. Ipswich, Burrell and Bransby, 1801-1805. Bacon of Mildenhall




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Lois (Hacker) Tilton
Cokayne asserts that Robert Bacon was MP for St Ives in 1621-22, but The History of Parliament Online says it was a different, distantly related Robert Bacon.
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