Her parents were Anne (born Gresham) and Sir Nathaniel Bacon MP.
Her formal education was at a boarding school in Dickleborough and she married in December 1593 Sir John Townshend.
Their son and heir, Sir Roger Townshend, 1st Baronet, was born in Melton Constable.
[2] Her husband died in 1603 from his wounds after taking part in a duel where he had killed his opponent.
[2] Townshend lived in Heydon, but she died at the home of her cousin, Anne, Lady Corbett, in Sprowston Hall in Norfolk in early November 1622.