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Bacon Genealogy
Last Updated March 2023

From New York to France with English Knights & purported Shakespearean writer- my Bacon linage is one of my oldest, imaginative, intelligent, and interesting!

My earliest known Bacon & 26th great grandfather was Grimbaldus The Norman*. He was born in modern Normandy, France, probably to a man named Anchetal (they were born before surnames were in use). Grimbaldus died after 1120 in Letheringsett, Norfolk, England.

It has been said that Grimbaldus fought with William the Conqueror. However, the Norman Conquest began in 1066, 4 years before he was born. It is possible his father Anchetal was a part of it, though there is no documentation of that.

His son & my 25th great grandfather was Ranulphus/Reynolds de Bacon. It is said that he was the first user of the surname Bacon (no surname was used prior to this). Bacon derives from the word Beech (as in trees). The Normandy Estate was covered with these trees.

The next down the line is Roger, Ranulphus' son. He was my first Bacon born in the young country called England [1152 in Baconsthorpe, Norfolk].

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My Abbreviated Lineage

Line of Descendancy from Ralph de Bacon to Kelly

1 Ralph de Bacon b: c900 AD
.2 Balso de Bacon b: c933 AD Lozère, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, d: Unknown ..3 Anschdil de Bacon b: 966 AD, d: Unknown
...4 Alix de Bacon b: 1000, d: Unknown
....5 Ranulf de Bacon I b: 1017, d: Unknown

.....6 Ranulf de Bacon II b: c1033, d: Unknown
......7 Anchetal Bascoin de Bacon b: Bef. 1056 modern Normandy, France, d: Unknown
Above this line has not been documented
.......8 "Grimbaldus the Norman" Grimbaldus b: 1070 modern Normandy, France, d: Letheringsett, Eng
........9 Lord Ranulphus Reynolds "Ranulf Baconthorpe" Bacon b: c1120 Haute-Normandie, Northern France, d: c1170
.........10 Roger de Baconsthorp Bacon b: 1152 Baconsthorpe, Eng, d: Unknown
..........11 Sir William Bacon b: c1174 Baconsthorpe, Eng, d: Unknown

...........12 William Bacon b: c1205 Monks Bradfield, Suffolk, Eng, d: unknown
............13 Adam Bacon b: c1236 Monks Bradfield, Suffolk, Eng, d: Unknown
.............14 Robert Bacon b: c1269 Thorpe, Eng, d: Unknown Suffolk, Eng
..............15 John Bacon I b: c1300 Monks Bradfield, Suffolk, Eng, d: Unknown

...............16 Sir John Bacon II b: c1320 Hessett, Eng, d: Unknown
................17 Sir John Bacon III b: 1346-59 Hessett, or Bradfield, England, d: Unknown
.................18 John Bacon IV b: c1376 Drinkstone, Eng, d: Unknown
..................19 Sir Edmund Bacon b: 1410 Drinkstone, Eng, d: 1453 Drinkstone, Eng

...................20 John Bacon VI Sr b: c1430 Drinkstone, Eng, d: 1500 Drinkstone, Eng

....................21 Thomas Bacon Sr b: 1475 Drinkstone, Eng, d: 1540 Helmingham, Eng
.....................22 John Bacon b: 1507 Helmingham, Eng, d: 19 Mar 1556/57 Helmingham, Eng

......................23 Michael ‘Mihell’ Bacon Sr b: c1535 Winston, Eng, d: 25 Mar 1615 Winston, Eng

.......................24 Michael Bacon Jr b: 6 Dec 1579 Winston, Eng, d: 18 Apr 1648 Dedham, MA

........................25 William Bacon b: 1608 Stretton, Eng, d: 1699 Stretton, Eng
.........................26 Nathaniel Bacon Sr. b: 1629/30 Stretton, Eng, d: 27 Jan 1705/6 Middletown, CT
..........................27 Lt Nathaniel Bacon Jr. b: 16 Mar 1673/4 Upper Middletown, CT, d: 6 Jan 1759 Upper Middletown, CT
...........................28 Nathaniel Bacon III b: 16 Feb 1706/07 Upper Middletown, CT, d: 22 Feb 1792 Upper Middletown, CT
............................29 Joel Jacob Bacon Sr b: 12 Nov 1751 Upper Middletown, CT, d: 29 Jun 1832 Upper Middletown, CT
.............................30 Ame Polly Bacon b: 12 Mar 1783 Upper Middletown, CT, d: 01 Jan 1832 Salisbury, NY
..............................31 Alvin John Bronson b: 20 Jun 1825 Salisbury, NY, d: 15 May 1887 South Ripley, NY
...............................32 Wesley Gurney Bronson b: 27 Sep 1860 South Ripley, NY, d: 15 Mar 1945 Erie, PA
................................33 Hazel Aleene Bronson b: 16 Jul 1889 South Ripley, NY, d: 13 Jun 1949 Westfield, NY
.................................34 Maurice Red Waite b: 29 Sep 1922 South Ripley, NY, d: 25 Aug 2014 Oswego, NY
..................................35 Sandra Waite
...................................36 Kindred Kel
 

 

Sample of sources for the above data:

  1. Bacon Genealogy; Michael Bacon of Dedham, and His Descendants by Thomas W. Baldwin.

  2. The Baronetage of England, or History of the English baronets, and such baronets of Scotland, as are of English families by Rev. William Betham.

  3. Genealogy of one branch of the Richard Brownson family, 1631-1951,by Ernest Ray Brownson, 1951.

  4.  A general biographical dictionary: comprising a summary account of the most distinguished persons of all ages, nations & professions, including ...American biography by John Blake, 1840.

  5.  The new Schaff-Herzog encyclopedia of religious knowledge, embracing Biblical, historical, doctrinal, & practical theology & Biblical, theological, & ecclesiastical biography ... by Samuel Jackson, 1908.

  6.  Encyclopaedia Americana: a popular dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, history, politics and biography, brought down to the present time... Vol 1, 1830.

     

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