Who were the Nuns?

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

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Margaret Clifford, in religion Mary Margaret.
Born: 1694 in Horton, Oxon.
Died: 14 May 1772 in Paris, aged 77.
Convert.

father: Richard Clifford prot of Horton, Oxon
mother: Anne Causby prot of Northants

Conceptionists, Paris lay sister.

She professed 24 Jun 1723, aged 29.

Sources: Conceptionist Annals: 76, 79, 122; Conceptionist Book of the Dead: 267; Conceptionist BP: 244-5.

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Diary p244 describes parents as Protestant and says she made her abjuration at Hammersmith in 1713. Was this the result of the work of the Mary Ward Sisters? (CB)

Recommended by Bishop Gifford: Annals p76