Who were the Nuns?

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

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Elizabeth Ward, in religion Elizabeth.
Born: 1591/2 in Yorks.

father: Marmaduke Ward of Mulwith, nr Ripon, Yorks
mother: Ursula Wright of Holderness, Yorks

Mary Ward Institute choir nun.
She entered c 1615.
St Omer

She was the sister of Barbara Ward, Mary Ward, Frances Ward .
She was the kinswoman of Helena Catesby.

Sources: companions: 114; Mary Ward texts.

Notes:

She seems to have spent most of her religious life in Flanders. After the 1631 suppression, she is recorded at St Omer in 1633, when Mary Ward's request to the Inquisition for 6 or 7 members to live there together as lay women was refused by the Cardinals. (CK-B)

Her uncles, Thomas Percy, John and Christopher Wright, were all implicated in the Gunpowder Plot.