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Margaretta Gascoigne, in religion Margaret.
Born: 1608 in Barnbow, Yorks.
Died: 16 Aug 1637 in Cambrai, aged 28.

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

Benedictines, Cambrai
She entered 25 May 1628, aged 20.

She professed 14 Jun 1629, aged 21.

subject: MS Life and Death of Dame Margaret Gascoigne by Augustine Baker
creator: MS Treatise

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

Sources: Travitsky, Bibliography of English Women Writers; Cambrai crs: 43, 75.

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

Notes:

Life and Death of Dame Margaret Gascoigne by Augustine Baker, ed John Clark, Institute fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universitat Salzburg, A-5020 Salzburg, 2006