Who were the Nuns?

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

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Anne Duffield, in religion Ann Frances.
Born: in Essex.
Died: 30 Dec 1834 in Ingatestone, Essex, aged 87.

father: Mr Joseph Duffield of Essex
mother: Mrs Mary Finch of Essex

Conceptionists, Paris choir nun.
She was clothed 26 Feb 1772.

She professed 19 Mar 1773, aged 24. Her dowry was nothing. [abbess agreed to take her without fortune: see p164]

School Mistress
Procuratrix
Portress in 1785

Sources: Conceptionist Annals: 163, 164, 180, 184, 279, 350; Mason, Recusant History, 1998: 96-7; Conceptionist BP: 251.

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Mason (1998) pp96-7 records that she left the community on its release from prison in 1795 and returned to England to live. By 1800 she was living with Lord Petre at: rejoined the community in the Autumn of 1800. She claimed the Diary from the Dowager Lady Jerningham about 1816.