Who were the Nuns?

A Prosopographical study of the English Convents in exile 1600-1800

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Anne Rookwood, in religion Anne.
Died: in St Ursula's, Louvain.

father: Robert Rookwood Cath of Stanningfield, Suffolk
mother: Dorothy Drury of Hawsted, Suffolk

She professed Sep 1596.[as a choir nun at St Ursula's, Louvain]

She was the great aunt of Frances Rookwood, Mary Rookwood.
She was the aunt of Mary Forster.
She was the sister of Dorothy Rookwood.

Sources: Louvain MS Chronicle: 20-2.

Family tree (Rookwood and Foster of Copdock)

Notes:

Her brother, Ambrose Rookwood, was executed for his role in the Gunpowder Plot. Another brother, Henry, became a Franciscan, living in Rouen and Lisbon (ODNB).