Who were the Nuns?

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

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Mary Smithson, in religion Mary Magdalen.
Died: 4 Jan 1731 in Louvain, aged 49.

father: Sir Hugh Smithson 3rd bart of Stanwick, Yorks
mother: Lady Elizabeth Langdale of Holme on Spalding Moor, Yorks

Augustinians, Louvain choir nun.

She professed 14 Mar 1700.

She was the sister of Catherine Smithson, Dorothy Smithson, Bridget Smithson.
She was the kinswoman of Mary Middleton, Elizabeth Anne.

Sources: Louvain MS Chronicle: 634.

Family tree (Langdale and Metham)

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Parents supplied from Stirnet, following Burke's General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, 2, 246.