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Hieronyma Waldegrave, in religion Hieronyma.
Born: 1603.
Died: 22 Jul 1635 in Ghent, aged 22 app.

father: Nicholas Waldegrave Esq of Borley, Essex
mother: Katherine Browne of Rookwood Hall, Essex

Benedictines, Ghent choir nun.
She was clothed 9 Nov 1626, aged 19.

She professed 8 Dec 1627, aged 21.

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She was the cousin of Frances Gawine, Elizabeth Southcote.
She was the sister of Barbara Waldegrave.
She was the kinswoman of Mary Yaxley, Dorothy Yaxley.

Sources: Ghent Obit: 20-1; RAG 2773/1; RAG 2773/5.

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Family tree (Waldegrave)

Notes:

Her brother-in-law was Richard Weston, 1st earl of Portland, the Lord Treasurer.

Listed as one of three unmarried daughters of these parents, Anne, Barbara and Jeronima in Stirnet, following Visitation of Essex. Probably named after the wife of her uncle Charles Waldegrave, Jeronima Jerningham.