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Mary Vavasour, in religion Marie.
Born: in Hazlewood, Yorks.
Died: 4 Dec 1676 in Brussels, aged 77.

father: William Vavasour Esq of Hazlewood, Yorks
mother: Anne Manners prot: converted of Salisbury, Wilts

Benedictines, Brussels choir nun.
She was clothed 4 Oct 1615.

She professed 5 Oct 1616, aged 17. Her dowry was 5000fl.

Abbess 1652 - 1676

She was the aunt of Anne Mary Vavasour, Ann Vavasour.
She was the sister of Catherine Vavasour, Margaret Vavasour, Marie Vavasour.
She was the kinswoman of Cecilia Cary, Frances Fortescue.

Sources: AMbenbx-12: 1630; AMbenbx-3: 1652; Brussels Obit: 83-91; Brussels Benedictine Annals: 73-4, 95, 106, 113, 154-61, 167, 168.

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Family tree (Manners earls of Rutland)
Family tree (Vavassour of Hazlewood)

Notes:

A pensioner. annals 106 ref to miraculous cure 1653

The family were persecuted in England and her father became a thrid order Franciscan.