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Mary Lawson, in religion Laurentia.
Born: 1655/7.
Died: 25 Nov 1729 in Pontoise, aged 70.

father: Sir John Lawson 1st bart of Brough Hall, nr Catterick, Yorks
mother: Katherine Howard of Naworth Castle, Cumbd

Benedictines, Pontoise choir nun.
She was clothed 8 Dec 1676.
She left 1700 .

Benedictines, Ypres choir nun.
She arrived 1700.
She left 1702 to return to her former convent.

Benedictines, Pontoise choir nun.
She arrived 1702.

She professed 11 Jan 1677. Her dowry was £20/year.

Thourier , Boulogne, Pontoise
Chantress , Boulogne, Pontoise
Dean , Boulogne, Pontoise

She was the great aunt of Mary Lawson, Bridget Lawson.
She was the niece of Mary Lawson.
She was the great niece of Margaret Lawson, Mary Lawson.

Sources: bk en 68H3; Pontoise ob 68H4: 150; Nolan: 54-5, 170-1; Register Pontoise: 302.

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Family tree (Howard of Norfolk and Lords Stafford)
Family tree (Lawson of Brough)

Notes:

Nolan p170 sent to Dublin mentioned by name in patent of James II, returned to Pontoise and later sent to Ypres for short time to assist in the revival of the Ypres convent. 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