When Sarah Ann Bacon was born in 1855, in Morpeth, New South Wales, Australia, her father, John Alias Wisby Bacon, was 37 and her mother, Ann Maria Powers, was 37. She married John Muddle on 10 January 1874, in Dungog, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 2 August 1944, in Dungog, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 89, and was buried in Dungog, New South Wales, Australia.
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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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