Sixteenth Generation

16. Sir John Steven BACON V (*) was born about 1385 in Bramford, Suffolk County, England.^{2,3,4,5,6,7,9} Bramford is a village in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It is three miles west of Ipswich, of which it forms part of the wider Ipswich Built-up area. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as "Brunfort" or "Branfort." The River Gipping (the source of the River Orwell), runs at the bottom of the village and was a busy navigable waterway during the 19th century. A lock is still on the east of side of the village.

(He may have been born in Drinkstone, Suffolk, England.) He died in 1465 at the age of 80 in Bramford, Suffolk County, England.^2,3,7

Sir John Steven BACON V (*) and Lady Margery THORPE (*) were married in 1399 in Hessett, Suffolk County, England.^4,5,7,9 Lady Margery THORPE (*), daughter of John William THORPE and Margaret QUAPLADDE, was born in 1390 in Drinkstone, Suffolk County, England.^2,9 She died in 1447 at the age of 57 in Drinkstone, Suffolk County, England.^2,5

Sir John Steven BACON V (*) and Lady Margery THORPE (*) had the following children: