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Catharin Widdrington
Born: c 1646.
Died: 30 Dec 1697 in Yorks.

father: Sir Edward Widdrington 1st bart of Cartington, Northd
mother: Christina Stewart of Coldingham, Berwickshire

Augustinians, Louvain
She was clothed 1659.
She left 1661c .

She was the great aunt of Catherine Talbot .
She was the great niece of Ann Radcliffe, Margaret Radcliffe, Elizabeth Radcliffe, Dorothy Radcliffe.
She was the cousin of Margaret Errington, Mary Errington.

Sources: Louvain MS Chronicle: 621; History Families Skeet, Somerscales, Widdrington: App..

Family tree (Widdrington)

Notes:

Her mother was granddaughter of Francis, 1st earl of Bothwell. Father died in the Bruges Augustinian convent?s house for boarders in January 1671, having earlier in his life spent several years in exile as a supporter of Charles I in Bruges. He was buried in the Capuchin church in Bruges. He had intended to join Carthusians and had brought his wife to Bruges to consider entering a convent. She fell ill over the winter of 1670-71, and returned to England three weeks after her husband?s death. This perfectly straightforward account occurs in the Bruges Augustinian?s chronicle for 1670-1. Skeet was confused by the details of Widdrington family connections, the same confusions occurring also in Burke's Extinct Peerage, p. 564, which erroneously states that Sir Edward married a Charlton of Hesleyside. Burke does not mention Christina Stuart, whose Will was proved in 1684 after her death and burial in York according to Northumbrian Families 1715, p. 3. It is clear that Christina was the mother of Edward?s children, and appears more than likely that she was his only wife, confusion having occurred through the marriage of her daughter Mary to Sir Edward Charlton, who died in January 1674. Christina?s daughters Mary and Catherine were named in her Will (Northumbrian Families 1715, p. 3).

After leaving the convent Catherine married first Roger Widdrington of Harbottle (d. 1671), by whom she was grandmother of Catherine and Mary Talbot CB073 and CB078, and secondly Gervaise Hammond.