When Malinda Bacon was born in 1803, in Washington, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Bacon, was 26 and her mother, Nancy Elizabeth Broyles, was 22. She married Allen "Keicher" Kyker on 22 August 1831, in Washington, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 18 August 1880, in Washington, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Cherokee, Washington, Tennessee, United States.
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English (of Norman origin) and French: from the Norman French personal name Bacun, derived from the ancient Germanic name Bac(c)o, Bahho, based on the element bag ‘(to) fight, (to) dispute’. The name was relatively common among the Normans in the form Bacus, of which the oblique case was Bacon.
English and French: from Middle English, Old French bacun, bacon ‘bacon’ (a word of ancient Germanic origin, akin to Back 3), probably a metonymic occupational name for a preparer and seller of cured pork.
History: Gilles Bacon from Normandy, France, is documented in Quebec City, QC, in 1647. — Michael Bacon from England arrived in Dedham, MA, in 1640. Nathanial Bacon, from Stratton, Cornwall, arrived in Barnstaple, MA, in 1639. Another Nathaniel Bacon (1647–76), from Friston Hall, Suffolk, emigrated to VA and settled at Curl's Neck on the James river.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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