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 1573 - 1622 (~ 49 years)
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| Name |
Bacon, Anne |
| Christened |
7 Aug 1573 |
Waxham, Norfolk, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Nov 1622 |
Norwich, Norfolk, England |
| Person ID |
I06610 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
21 Jul 2012 |
| Father |
Bacon, Nathaniel, b. Abt 1548, England , d. 15 Nov 1622, Stikey, Norfolk, England (Age ~ 74 years) |
| Mother |
Gresham, Anne, b. Abt 1549, Of London, England , d. Abt 1594, England (Age ~ 45 years) |
| Married |
29 Jun 1569 |
St Sepulchre, Holborn, London, England |
| Family ID |
F01911 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Townshend, John, b. Abt 1568, Of Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England , bur. 2 Aug 1603, Houndslow, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 35 years) |
| Married |
Dec 1593 |
England |
| Family ID |
F02448 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Abstract of the will of Lady Ann Townshend of Ileyden, Co. Norf. widow. P. C. C. Swan, Xo. 15. Proved 4th Feb. 1622.
" To Sir Nathaniel Bacon Knt my father my best Diamond ring and 50 of my best weather sheep. To Lady Bacon my mother in Law a Silver Tankard. To sisters Ladies Gaudy and Knevetts each a bowle of Silver Gilt. To loving cousin Sir Edward Bacon. To cousin Corbet the late wife of Thomas Corbet Esquire deceased, a pendant of four Diamonds. To Wm Biggin £50 on conditions that within five months after my decease, he deliver to my son Sir Roger Townshend Kt Bart all evidence as his late father had concerning lands etc &c which I bought of him. To the Lady my son Sir Roger Townshend manyeth my muft of purple velvet with pearls, and lined with sable etc. &c. To my daughter Anne, wife of John Spelman Esq my house in London also 42 buttons of Gold - One gown of Black Satin - one silver basin given me by the Rt Hon The Lady Berckeley my late mother in law. To s'^ daughter Anne £100. To son Sir Roger T. a farm also my chief messuage in Hayden forever provided he bestow £500 to the purcliase of lauds in Norfolk and Suffolk, the rents to be paid for the education of poor chiidren of Heydon, Stifkey, Salle Little Ribough 6b Stanhow Co Norf &c. &c, buiuding them apprentices in such course as the children of the Hospital lately erected in Berkshire by my good aunt the Lady Peryam &c. &c. To Mr Partington minister of Heydon 20 s, also five Gold rings value 20s each with this posy '" Remember the End "- One to Mr Gardiner minister of East Raynham - One to Mrs Mitchell of Salle - One to ~My. Partingen. One to Mrs Symonds wife of my steward Mr Edward Symnonds and one to Mr Martyn Mann servant to my lather Sir Nathaniel Bacon Kt To Edward Symonds one cup of silver value £5 with my arms and name thereon. - To Thomas JelFers £30 - To Anne Jef fers my servant £30 - To Robt Rabhy of East Raynham £10 - To my ap prentices & servants 40s each. To my son Sir Roger Townshend all remaining property whatsoever and I make him sole executor. Witnesses Thomas Partington Signed Anne Townshend.
Who's Who of Tudor Women
ANNE BACON (1573-November 1622)
Anne Bacon was the daughter of Sir Nathaniel Bacon (c.1546-November 1622) and Anne Gresham (c.1549-1594). Raised as a puritan, Anne was sent at the age of eighteen to a puritan boarding school in Dickleborough, Norfolk and she remained there until she married John Townshend of Raynham (1567/8-August 2, 1590) in December 1593. Anne’s husband had an “aggressive and violent” nature, made worse by the fact that the young couple were obliged to live on the charity of their parents. John’s mother, Jane (née Stanhope) (c.1547-1618) held a life interest in the Thownshend estates, even after her remarriage in 1598 to Henry, Lord Berkeley. The death of Anne’'s mother and the possibility that her father would remarry and sire a son meant she might no longer inherit her father’s properties at Stiffkey, Langham, and Morston. This did not happen, but John died in debt, having sold off most of his land to his mother. Lady Berkeley also obtained the wardship of the heir, Anne’s oldest son, Roger (November 1595-January 1, 1637). Her other children were Anne and Stanhope (c.1597-c.1620). In around 1605, Anne was being courted by Sir George Southcote (d.c. 1638) but did not marry him. She was one of a number of puritan women who supported radical clergymen. The Bacon-Townshend Collection of letters written between 1550 and 1640 is at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Biography: Oxford DNB entry under “Townshend [née Bacon], Anne.”
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