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Scholastica Bruning
Born: 1648 in Wymering, Hants.
Died: 18 Apr 1713 in Pontoise, aged 65.

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

Benedictines, Pontoise choir nun.
She was clothed 15 Aug 1664.

She professed 15 Jun 1666, aged 18. Her dowry was 5000 livres.

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

Sources: VO 68H10; Pontoise ob 68H4: 86; Register Pontoise: 293-4.

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Family tree (Bruning)

Notes:

Ypres Nolan 218-9: Named in a letter from the Abbess of Pontoise (1700) as one of four nuns having permission to go to Ypres