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Catherine Gascoigne, in religion Catherine.
Born: 1601 in Barnbow, Yorks.
Died: 21 May 1676 in Cambrai, aged 76.

father: Sir John Gascoigne 1st bart of Barnbow, Yorks
mother: Anne Ingleby of Lawkland, Yorks

Benedictines, Cambrai
She entered 2 Dec 1623, aged 22.

She professed 1 Jan 1625.

Abbess 1629 - 1641
Abbess 1645 - 1673

creator: MS Defence of Augustine Baker
creator: Letters
creator: MS Relation of her form of prayer
subject: portrait reproduced in CRS Vol 13, 1913

She was the aunt of Mary Hoghton, Catherine Gascoigne, Anne Tempest, Francis Gascoigne, Mary Stapleton, Catherine Thwing, Helen Thwing, Anne Thwing.
She was the great aunt of Mary Appleby, Elizabeth Erington.
She was the sister of Margaretta Gascoigne.

brother: Dom John Placidus Gascoigne OSB Abbot of Lambspring

Sources: Travitsky, Bibliography of English Women Writers; Cambrai crs: 40; bib dict: 3: 398; Colections.

Family tree (Gascoigne)
Family tree (Ingleby Middleton of Stockeld and Maire of Hartbrushes)

Notes:

check mother: Bastow has Margaret Vavasour based on Bar convent records p71 Bantoft gives both.

'Colections', Paris, Bibliotheque Mazarine MS 1202, ed. Julia Bolton Holloway, Institute fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universitat Salzburg, A-5020 Salzburg, 2006