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Anne Fleetwood, in religion Benedicta.
Born: 1665.
Died: 22 Oct 1748 in Dunkirk, aged 84.

father: Sir Richard Fleetwood 3rd bart of Colwich, Staffs
mother: Anne Golding of Colston Bassett, Notts

Benedictines, Dunkirk choir nun.

She professed 1686, aged 21.

Prioress 1712 - 1712
Abbess 1712 - 1748

She was the sister of Barbara Fleetwood, [Michael] Fleetwood.
She was the great niece of Dorothy Fleetwood, Margaret Throckmorton.

Sources: Dunkirk History: 33, 56-80; BB Y61: 24.

Family tree (Fleetwood-Shirburn)
Family tree (Golding)
Family tree (Sheldon of Beoly-Canning-Fowler-Fleetwood-Pershall)

Notes:

She lent a book of the convent's plain song to the Bruges Augustinians for them to copy and use at the request of their prioress, Lucy Herbert (Bruges Augs I ann 418-19).

Extract of mortuary notice in Latin in Bonvarlet 170-1