Who were the Nuns?

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

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Anne Walgrave, in religion Anne.

Mary Ward Institute choir nun.

She was the kinswoman of Dorothy Yaxley.

Sources: companions: 114.

Family tree (Waldegrave)

Notes:

She lived in Rome and is recorded as having been there in 1631.

Listed in Stirnet, following Visitation of Essex, for Nicholas Waldegrave of Borley, Essex, and his wife Katherine Browne, are three unmarried daughters of these parents, Anne, Barbara and Jeronima. The second two were certainly BB189 and GB241: very likely this was the third sister.