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Elizabeth Widdrington, in religion Elizabeth Joseph.
Born: 1658.
Died: 9 Nov 1730 in Pontoise, aged 71 .
Convert.

father: William Widdrington 2nd lord convert of Widdrington Castle, Northd
mother: Elizabeth Bertie convert of Evedon, Lincs

Benedictines, Pontoise choir nun.
She was clothed 4 May 1679.

She professed 28 Jan 1680, aged 21. Her dowry was 2500 livres.

Abbess 1710 - 1730

She was the sister of Dorothy Widdrington, Jane Widdrington.
She was the great aunt of Barbara Clavering, Anne Barbara Clavering, Alathea Widdrington.
She was the aunt of Apollonia Widrington.
She was the cousin of Jane Crane, Frances Crane, Dorothy Widdrington.

Sources: bk en 68H3; VO 68H10; Pontoise ob 68H4: 153; Register Pontoise: 306-7.

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Family tree (Widdrington)

Notes:

Not entirely clear from obit at what age children were converted as no dates given: see Pontoise Register 306. 'She was one of the Daughters of the Right Honourable Lord Widdrington who with his lady her mother, being converted to the Romaine Catholic Faith neglect'd not the Instruction of their Children in the same, ...'

Book of Entries gives portion as £500