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Elizabeth Bruning, in religion Augustina.
Born: 1661.
Died: 12 Jan 1741 in Pontoise, aged 79.

father: Edmund Bruning Esq of Wymering, Hants
mother: Anne Winchcombe of Bucklebury, Berks

Benedictines, Pontoise choir nun.
She was clothed 13 May 1677.

She professed 12 Jan 1679, aged 18. Her dowry was 2700 livres, an other 2700 to be paid later by her father.

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Infirmarian

She was the sister of Scholastica Bruning.
She was the cousin of Catherine Bruning, Ann Bruning.
She was the kinswoman of Susan Bruning.

Sources: Pontoise ob 68H4: 158; Register Pontoise: 306; Book of Accounts: 1679.

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