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Margaret More, in religion Margaret.
Died: Sep 1679 in York, Yorks.

father: Thomas More Esq II of Barnburgh Hall, Yorks
mother: Mary Brooke of Madeley, Shrops

Mary Ward Institute choir nun.
She entered before 1678.
not known where she entered

She was the sister of Mary More.
She was the aunt of Ann More.
She was the niece of Bridget More, Helen More, Agatha Brooke, Elizabeth Brooke, Mary Byerley, Dorothea Brooke.

Sources: biog dic; CRS 4: 356.

Family tree (Brooke of Madeley)
Family tree (More of Bamborough)

Notes:

She was arrested at Dolbank in 1678 and died in York Castle the following year. biog dic records that she and her sister were direct descendants of St Thomas More through Cresacre More.