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Joyce Vaux, in religion Joyce.
Died: 1667 in Eye, Suffolk.
father: George Vaux of Harrowden, Northants
mother: Elizabeth Roper of Lynsted, Kent
Mary Ward Institute choir nun.
She entered bef 1612.
entered at St Omer
She was the niece of Jane Lovell.
Sources: companions: 114; Mary Ward texts.
Family tree (Roper, barons Teynham)Notes:
According to Vaux of Harrowden p375 (citing HMC Downshire II, 157), she initially wanted to become a Benedictine nun but changed her mind and joined the Carmelites before becoming an early member of the Mary Ward sisters. Death and burial from Vaux of Harrowden p474, 476, 491.
She was at St Omer in 1614, but was recorded in Rome (1623) and Perugia in 1624 and 1625. The house at Perugia was closed in 1625. At this point Joyce Vaux left the Institute.