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Mary Thorsby, in religion Mary.
Born: in Essex.
Died: 27 Aug 1659 in Louvain.
Convert.
father: Christopher Thoresby Prot of Durward Hall, Bocking, Essex
mother: Audrey Timperley of Hintlesham, Suffolk
Augustinians lay sister.
She professed 14 Apr 1619, aged 40.
She was the kinswoman of Anne Timperly, Elinor Timperly.Sources: Hamilton: I, 181-2; Louvain MS Chronicle: 184.
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Parents identified by Gillow: see Hamilton
On her conversion, see MS Chronicle p184-5: In the year 1619 the 14 of April was profest too lay sisters. The first named Mary Thursbie, daughter unto Christopher Thursbie of Buckenhal in Essex, no Catholick. This his daughter Mary went from him about 11 or 12 years of age, to serve her aunt Mrs Green who was a Catholick, yet she lived with her about 12 years before she came into the church, & then continued to live with her aunt for the space of 24 years. After which time she was wery of her service, & therefore desired her father to place her with som other Catholick, for her father loved Catholicks, tho he were non himself, being so timorous that after his daughter was a Catholick he durst not lodg her any long time in his own house, but provided her a place with the old Lady Hudleston where she staid not long by reason that the lady was so fearful that priests came seldom to the house. & she having been at her aunts, used continually to hear mass & confer with priests liked not this dry kind of life, therfore spoke unto them to provide her of som other place. Whereupon a good priest once asked her if she had no mind to come over to be religious. She answerd she durst not think thereof, but only desired to continue a true Catholick.