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Mary Tyldesley, in religion Michael.
Born: in Lancs.
Died: 1759 in Ghent.

father: Thomas Tyldesley of Myerscough Lodge, The Fylde, Lancs
mother: Eleonor Holcroft of Holcroft, Lancs

Benedictines, Ghent choir nun.
She was clothed 10 Nov 1700, aged 17.

She professed app 1728.

Cellarer
Prioress
School Mistress in 1736

She was the sister of Anne Tyldesley, Francisca Tyldesley, Eleanor Tyldesley.
She was the great niece of Ann Tyldesley, Elizabeth Tyldesley, Dorothy Tyldesley.

Sources: Ghent Annals list: 199; Ghent Annals: 60, 65; RAG K2295: 18v.

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Family tree (Anderton of Lostock and Horwich)
Family tree (Standish of Standish)

Notes:

Her father was an ardent Jacobite. Annals record that her profession was delayed for some time because of family circumstances and the convent was unable to take her until she had a dowry: Annals 60

She was born or (more likely) baptised on 25 March 1684 according to the Newchurch Register of Culcheth, Lancs, p. 20 (ex info Peter Tyldesley).