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Bacon Family Crest
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Where did the French Bacon family come from? What is the French Bacon family crest and coat of arms? When did the Bacon family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Bacon family history?

The Medieval culture once found in that northern region of France known as Normandy is the soil from which the many generations of the Bacon family have grown. The name Bacon was given to a member of the family who was a pig farmer or pork butcher as the name Bacon was originally derived from the Old French word "bacun", which meant pork.

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French surnames were subject to numerous spelling alterations depending on the region and time it was used. The early development of the French language relied heavily on borrowing elements and grammar from other languages. For example, Old French was infused with Germanic words and sounds when barbarian tribes invaded and settled in France after the fall of the Roman Empire. Middle French also borrowed heavily from the Italian language during the Renaissance. As a result of these linguistic and cultural influences, the name Bacon is distinguished by a number of regional variations. The many spelling variations of the name include Bacon, Bacou, Baconnier, Bacot, Bacquart, Baconet and many more.

First found in Normandy.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Bacon research. Another 119 words(8 lines of text) covering the years 1423, 1586, 1731, 1790, and 1795 are included under the topic Early Bacon History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Another 68 words(5 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Bacon Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

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France finally gave land incentives for 2,000 migrants during the 1700s. Early marriage was encouraged in New France, and youths of 18 took fourteen-year-old girls for their wives. The fur trade was developed and attracted migrants, both noble and commoner from France. 15,000 explorers left Montreal in the late 17th and 18th centuries, leaving French names scattered across the continent. The search for the Northwest passage continued. Migration from France to New France or Quebec, as it was now more popularly called, continued until 1759. By 1675, there were 7000 French in Quebec. By the same year the Acadian presence in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island had reached 500. In the treaty of Utrecht, the Acadians were ceded by France to Britain in 1713. In 1755, 10,000 French Acadians refused to take an oath of allegiance to England and were deported. They found refuge in Louisiana. Meanwhile, in Quebec, the French race flourished, founding in Lower Canada, one of the two great solitudes which became Canada. Many of this distinguished family name Bacon were prominent in social, cultural, religious and political affairs in France and New France. Amongst the settlers in North America with this distinguished name Bacon were

Bacon Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century


  • Daniel Bacon who settled in Virginia in 1635
  • George Bacon who settled in Boston Massachusetts in 1635
  • Geo Bacon, aged 43, landed in America in 1635
  • George Bacon, who arrived in Hingham, Mass in 1635
  • Richard Bacon, who arrived in America in 1635


Bacon Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century


  • Lind Bacon, who landed in Virginia in 1700
  • Sarah Bacon, who arrived in Virginia in 1701
  • Butts Bacon, who landed in New Hampshire in 1726
  • Margaret Bacon, who arrived in Philadelphia, Pa in 1773
  • Benjamin Bacon, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1775

Bacon Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century


  • Cath Bacon, who landed in America in 1805
  • Robt Bacon, who arrived in America in 1805
  • Edward Bacon, who landed in Charleston, SC in 1823
  • T H Bacon, who arrived in San Francisco, Cal in 1851
  • J Bacon, who landed in San Francisco, Cal in 1860


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  • Leonard Bacon (1887-1954), American poet awarded the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  • Edmund Bacon (1910-2005), American Architect
  • Kevin Norwood Bacon (b. 1958), American actor and Golden Globe award winner
  • Robert Bacon (1860-1919), American statesman and diplomat, American Secretary of State (1909)
  • Leonard Bacon (1801-1881), American clergyman
  • Nathaniel Bacon (1642-1676), American colonial leader
  • Kenneth Hogate Bacon (1944-2009), American journalist, spokesman for the Department of Defense during the Presidency of Bill Clinton, former president of Refugees International
  • David Walter Bacon, educator and professor at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario
  • Roger Stuart Bacon, politician in Amherst, Nova Scotia
  • Alice Martha Bacon (1909-1993), Baroness Bacon, British Labor Party politician

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  • Three Bacon Brothers: Descendants of Theodore S. Back of Allegany County, New York by Marian Fox Graves.
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  1. Colletta, John P. They Came In Ships. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1993. Print.
  2. Vaillancourt, Emile. La Conquete du Canada par les Normands. Biographie de la premiere generation Normande du Canada. Montreal: G. Ducharme, 1930. Print.
  3. Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
  4. Robb H. Amanda and Andrew Chesler. Encyclopedia of American Family Names. New York: Haper Collins, 1995. Print. (ISBN 0-06-270075-8).
  5. Rietstap, Johannes Baptist. Armorial Général. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Print.
  6. Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Genealogies Scotch-Irish and German. Harrisburg: L.S. Hart, 1886. Print.
  7. Annuaire Général Héraldique Universel. Paris: Institut Héraldique, 1901. Print.
  8. Rasmussen, Louis J. . San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists 4 Volumes Colma, California 1965 Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978. Print.
  9. Bolton, Charles Knowles. Bolton's American Armory. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1964. Print.
  10. Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Print. (ISBN 0192852213).
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The Bacon Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Bacon Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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