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Dorothy Bedingfield, in religion Dorothy.
Born: c 1657.
Died: 14 Oct 1734 in York, Yorks.

father: Francis Bedingfield Esq of Redlingfield, Suffolk
mother: Mary Paston of Appleton, Norfolk

Mary Ward Institute choir nun.
Hammersmith?

Superior 1699 - 1734 York

subject: Portrait at Bar Convent, York

She was the sister of Mary Bedingfield, Agnes Bedingfield.
She was the kinswoman of Charlotte Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, Agnes Stanley, Winifred Stanley, Elizabeth Stanley.
She was the niece of Mary Bedingfield.
She was the great niece of Helen Bedingfield, Margaret Bedingfield, Philippa Bedingfield, Elizabeth Hamilton, Ann Bedingfield, Katherine Bedingfield , Magdalen Bedingfield , Grace Bedingfield, Frances Bedingfield, Maria Bedingfield, Winefrid Bedingfield, Catharine Paston, Margaret Paston.

Sources: biog dic; CRS 4: 357.

Family tree (Bedingfield of Bedingfield and Redlingfield)
Family tree (Paston and Towneley)

Notes:

Used the alias of Paston.

She was imprisoned in York in 1694 with her great-aunt, the first superior, Frances Bedingfield.