Who were the Nuns?

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

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Anne Gage, in religion Anne.
Born: 1580.

father: Edward Gage of Bentley, Sussex
mother: Margaret Shelley of Michelgrove, Sussex

Mary Ward Institute choir nun.
She entered c. 1610.
She left 1630 .
St Omer

Superior 1615 - 1618 the English Mission
Superior in 1618 Liège

She was the sister of Mary Flavia Gage, Barbara Gage.
She was the aunt of Jane Alcock, Isabel Alcock, Philip Alcock, Mildred Alcock.

Sources: companions: 107-8.

Family tree (Shelley of Michelgrove-Cotton of Warblington)

Notes:

She was in St Omer until appointed as Superior on theEnglish Mission in 1615. In 1618 she was Superior in Liège, where she remained until the suppression in 1630. She left the Institute shortly afterwards. (CK-B)