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Catharine Paston, in religion Katherin.
Born: in Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk.
Died: 3 Aug 1640 in Brussels, aged 47.
father: Edward Paston Esq of Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk
mother: Margaret Berney of Reedham, Norfolk
Benedictines, Brussels choir nun.
She was clothed 5 Oct 1612, aged 18.
She professed 6 Oct 1613, aged 20. Her dowry was 5000fl.
She was the great aunt of Agnes Bedingfield, Mary Bedingfield, Dorothy Bedingfield, Dorothy Paston, Charlotte Stanley, Elizabeth Stanley, Winifred Stanley, Agnes Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, Mary Bedingfield, Margaret Bedingfield, Ann Bedingfield.She was the sister of Margaret Paston.
Sources: Brussels Obit: 32; Brussels Benedictine Annals: 92; Brussels Benedictines Profession Book: 181.
QuotationsFamily tree (Paston and Towneley)
Notes:
Daughter of Edward Paston of Appleton, Norfolk (died before 6 May 1630) and his wife Margaret Berney (born c. 1566); named as one of two unmarried daughters in a manuscript genealogy of c. 1635 published by Francis Worship in 1852 (Norfolk Rec. Office MC 662/23 and BL/ AD/3/9). Thorpe Old Hall, in Thorpe St Andrew, Broadland, Norfolk, was the town house of Sir Edward Paston (d. 1630), http://homepage.mac.com/philipdavis/English%20sites/4057.html (scheduled sites and monuments, with photograph).