Who were the Nuns?

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

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Anne Mostyn, in religion Mary Anne of St Winefrid.
Born: 1663 in Flints, Wales.
Died: 26 Jun 1715 in Lierre, aged 52.

father: Sir Edward Mostyn Bart of Talacre, Flints, Wales
mother: Elizabeth Downes of Bodney, Norfolk

Carmelites, Lierre choir nun.
She was clothed 21 Sep 1682.

She professed 22 Sep 1683, aged 20. Her dowry was 5000 fl.

She was the sister of Margaret Mostyn, Elizabeth Mostyn.
She was the niece of Margaret Mostyn , Elizabeth Mostyn .

Sources: Hallett, Lives: 191, 193; Liv-I: 256-60.

Family tree (Mostyn of Talacre)

Notes:

Sent to Paris to be educated by the English Canonesses, then Ursulines; Hallett Chap 31 193-4 Her grandmother Mrs Petre, also her godmother who brought her up on the death of her mother. Went to Paris with her sister to be educated by the Augustinians. From there sent to the Ursulines to perfect her French.

Mentioned in Hardman (1937), p. 86.