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Margaret Paston, in religion Francisca.
Died: 5 Apr 1652 in Brussels, aged 48.
father: Edward Paston Esq of Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk
mother: Margaret Berney of Reedham, Norfolk
Benedictines, Brussels choir nun.
She was clothed 27 Aug 1623.
She professed 24 Nov 1624, aged 20. Her dowry was 5000fl.
She was the sister of Catharine Paston.She was the great aunt of Dorothy Paston, Agnes Bedingfield, Mary Bedingfield, Charlotte Stanley, Elizabeth Stanley, Agnes Stanley, Winifred Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, Dorothy Bedingfield, Mary Bedingfield, Margaret Bedingfield, Ann Bedingfield.
Sources: Brussels Obit: 46; Brussels Benedictine Annals: 92; Brussels Benedictines Profession Book: 185.
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 (Norfol 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).