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Elizabeth Erington, in religion Scholastica.
Died: 30 Jul 1765 in Brussels, aged 74.

father: Nicholas Erington Esq of Yorks
mother: Anne Stapleton of Carlton, Yorks

Benedictines, Brussels choir nun.
She was clothed 24 Nov 1709.

She professed 7 Jul 1711, aged 20.

She was the great aunt of Elizabeth Stapleton.
She was the aunt of Mary Stapleton.
She was the kinswoman of Barbara Clavering, Anne Barbara Clavering.
She was the great niece of Mary Stapleton, Catherine Gascoigne, Margaretta Gascoigne.

Sources: Brussels Obit: 148; AMbenbx-7: 53; Brussels Benedictine Annals: 173; Brussels Benedictines Profession Book: 192-3.

Family tree (Gascoigne)
Family tree (Stapleton)
Family tree (Widdrington)

Notes:

annals gives surname as Stapleton-Errington. Her father was son of Mark Errington of Ponteland and Anne Stapleton, heir to her brother Sir Miles Stapleton of Carlton. In consequence the son of Mark and Anne later adopted the name Stapleton, thereafter used by the descendants of his son and successor Nicholas (father of PA157). Anne Stapleton was therefore Elizabeth's grandmother; the name of her mother, her father's first wife, was Mary Scrope of Denby (d. 1695/6): see Foster's Yorkshire Pedigrees ii, Stapleton of Carleton. Her brothers Nicholas and Gregory occur as non-jurors in 1715 (p. 204).