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Suffolk, Redgrave

1624 Sir Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave and Anne Butts 1616 flic.kr/p/7v1AAN lie on the monument he made after her death www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/pC6xzZ

NIcholas was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/836X49 who bought Redgrave Manor from the Crown in 1542 and rebuilt the Hall , by 1st wife Jane Fernley. He was half brother to Sir Francis Bacon and brother to Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11241472904/ and Elizabeth 3rd wife of Sir William Periham www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11669251276/

Anne was the daughter of Edmund Butts of Thornage son of Sir William Butts physician to Henry Vlll, and Anne www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/69gREp

co-heiress of Henry Bures flic.kr/p/7JHcwk inheriting half the Bures and all the Butts fortunes.

(her uncle and aunt were William Butts & Joan Bures www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/12254380705/ She was the grand daughter of Anne Heigham www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/12254279375/ & Henry Bures 1528 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/4421471795/

Children - 9 sons & at least 4 daughters

1. Edmund m Philippa Wotton

2. Robert m Anne daughter of John Peyton of isleham & Alice Osborne flic.kr/p/hn6Tp3

3 Butts 1st Bart 1661 m Dorothea daughter of Sir Henry Warner of Mildenhall, buried at Blundeston

4 Nicholas of Gillingham 1641 m1 Anne daughter of Sir James Weston m2 Margaret daughter of Eustace Darcy (son NIcholas m Elizabeth daughter of Richard Freston flic.kr/p/fxrZ9D )

5.Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Culford www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/537009690/ m Jane www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/537140599/ daughter of Hercule Meautys

6 Anne1624 m Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead (1615 whose mother was Elizabeth Stafford www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/1159202549/

7 Dorothy www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/96y1c9 m1 (2nd wife) Sir Bassingbourn Gawdy 1606 widower of Ann daughter of Charles Framlingham of Debenham www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/13852000985/ m2 Philip Colby

8. Jemima m1 Sir William son of Sir William Waldegrave 1613 and 1st wife Elizabeth Mildmay www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/14373916166/ m2 Henry Killigrew

9. Elizabeth m Sir Robert Mansell www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11173016024/ son of Sir Edward Mansell & Jane Somerset www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11172965126/

 

Nicholas matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University in 1554.He was MP for Beverley 1563-1567. He was MP for Suffolk 1572-1583. He was Sheriff of Suffolk 1581-82 and Sheriff of Norfolk 1597 -1598. He was created Baronet Bacon,of Redgrave on 22 May 1611,and also knighted at Norwich by Queen Elizabeth. Dying on 22 November 1624 at Culford he was buried at Redgrave

 

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