Bacon Family

[frankle]

Looking for info on the BACON family of Ardleigh Essex. Daniel Fenner Bacon was born in 1790 in Ardleigh and moved to Colchester.  He married Lucy ?
can anyone help with Lucys surname or Daniels parents.

 

[MALCOLM]

Hi Frankle.
                This is a very good site-
           www.cropleyfamily.co.uk/links   go to Ardleigh Past.
  Hope this will help.

   
            Malcolm.

[frankle]

Thanks Malcolm
I will have a look.


Sandra.

[Clincher]

I've been working on Ardleigh and had a quick look through the baptisms for 1790+or - . Without making any notes I got the impression that during the 1790s there were 2 or 3 BACON families with baptisms but I saw no Daniel BACON. I was going at some speed and some images were dodgy, so I can't be sure.

When I did some work on Beaumont-cum-Moze (Essex RO ref: D/P 285/1/3 fiche 1 of 1) I came across this baptism:
1795 Jan 4 Daniel BACON son of Abraham and Elizabeth BACON

I checked with a very reliable modern transcript called Essex Marriage Register Vol 27 page 1654 and found:
Abraham BACON of Weeks (sic) married Elizabeth BURGES Sep 30 1791 at Beaumont-cum-Moze.

Maybe Weeks is intended to be Wix. I can't think of anything else it could be.
Perhaps this Daniel BACON and parents are just a coincidental red herring

[frankle]

I have checked all the info I have so far on Daniel Fenner Bacon.  It says in a couple of the census records that he was born in Ardleigh. But you are correct I can not find him, I have also checked the 1796 census, but he is not in that either.  He ran a grocer shop in Colchester and his family were later Brickmakers and Stonemasons all from Colchester.   None of his children were called Abraham so I doubt he is the one you have found.  With his middle name as Fenner, I was thinking that his Mothers maiden name may have been Fenner!
Any other ideas?

[Clincher]

Hi, I thought of the possibility of Fenner being the mother's name and tried to look out for it in both in Ardleigh and Beaumont. I saw some FENNs but no FENNERs

To try to find the marriage, have you made use of this service to try to find the marriage. (Details from Essex FHS website)

Essex Society for Family History - Indexes to the Jack Baxter indexes

Essex Marriage and Burial Indexes

Mr Jack H Baxter, 16 Chandos Parade, Benfleet, Essex SS7 2HT has created an index of Essex marriages (mainly 1754-1851) and burials (1813-1865 only) which he will search on receipt of:  50p per marriage, from members quoting membership number; or 
 £1 per marriage from non-members. 


The index does not belong to the Essex Society for Family History. It was created by Mr Baxter, who, as a founder member of the Society, is prepared to make searches of it for the benefit of fellow members at the reduced fees shown above.

A stamped self-addressed envelope should accompany the request (Overseas1 IRC)

All cheques should be made payable to J H Baxter, not to the Society.

[frankle]

I will get in touch and see if he can find his marriage.  His wife Lucy ? was born, according to the census records in Fordham Essex.  Perhaps they were married there.   Daniel was a brickmaker before he was a grocer.  It looks like a lot of the Bacons from Ardleigh were brickmakers at that time.  Wonder if he was born before 1790, but in the Arleigh records the 1789 baptisms are not complete.   
Thanks for all your help

Sandra