Anne (Gresham) Bacon (1549 - 1595)

Born 1549 in London, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Nathaniel Bacon MP — married 29 Jun 1569 in London, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died 1595 at about age 46 in Suffolk, England

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Biography

Anne was the illegitimate daughter of Sir Thomas Gresham.^[1][2][3][4] She may have been born abroad, possibly in Bruges.^[3][4] She was acknowledged by her father^[5] and educated well and brought up in her father's household.^[3][4] Her mother was said to be a Dutch servant of her father's called Anne.^[6]

Anne married Nathaniel Bacon by a licence dated 29 June 1569.^[2] Nathaniel was the son of her father's sister-in-law Jane.^[4] They had two sons, who died in her lifetime, and three daughters.^[2]

Following her marriage, her husband arranged for her to stay "half a year or a quarter" with his stepmother Anne at Gorhambury, Hertfordshire, to learn how to adjust to her new position as wife of an important personage with a household to run.^[5][7] Afterwards, Anne wrote to her husband's stepmother to express gratitude for "the great care that yow alwaies had of my well doinge duringe my beinge with yow."^[5]

Anne inherited manors in East Anglia from her father.^[2][6]

Anne died in 1594/5 and was buried at Stiffkey, Norfolk.^[6]

Her husband remarried on 21 July 1597, his second wife being Dorothy Hopton.^[2]

Research Notes

Anne's death county is unsourced. She was buried in Norfolk.^[6] Her husband's interests and activities centred on Norfolk, but he and Anne also had properties in Suffolk.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Nathaniel Bacon
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} History of Parliament online: BACON, Nathaniel (1546-1622), of Stiffkey, Irmingland, Norf
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for 'Gresham, Sir Thomas', print and online 2004, revised online 2008, available online on subscription and via some libraries
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol. 23, pp. 142-153, entry for 'Gresham, Thomas', Wikisource
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} The Letters of Anne Bacon, Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 11, Google Books snippets
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney. A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen, Taylor & Francis, 2016, p. 59, Google Books
7. ↑ 'The Letters of Anne Bacon [Anne's husband's stepmother]', Camden Fifth Series, Vol. 44, December 2013, pp. 51-288, doi:10.1017/S0960116313000225 footnote 97, web, accessed 29 August 2020

• Biographia Britannica, Or The Lives Of The Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland From The Earliest Ages Down To Present Times, Volume The First, pp. 364-369, Edward Gibson, Presented At The Court of King George, September 26, 1774, The University of Lausanne Collection.
• Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney. A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen, Taylor & Francis, 2016, entry for 'Anne Gesham Bacon', p. 59, Google Books