Who were the Nuns?

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

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Grace Turner, in religion Gertrude.
Born: 1635/3.
Died: 8 Feb 1691 in Pontoise, aged 59.

father: Thomas Turner Esq of Little Audley End, Essex
mother: Alice Wigmore of Lucton, Herefs

Benedictines, Boulogne choir nun.
She was clothed 11 Sep 1656, aged 15.

She professed 14 Sep 1657. Her dowry was 1000 livres. [B]

She was the cousin of Anna Wigmore.
She was the niece of Helen Wigmore, Elizabeth Wigmore, Winefrid Wigmore.
She was the sister of Frances Turner .

Sources: VO 68H10; Pontoise ob 68H4: 66; Register Pontoise: 283.

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Family tree (Throckmorton of Coughton and Wigmore of Lucton)
Family tree (Wigmore of Lucton)

Notes:

Sir Richard Foster paid 1000 livres for her portion: see Benefactors' Book

On 10 Oct 1686 she was authorised to return from Ypres to Pontoise, thus indicating that she had been sent there some time earlier to help at that establishment.