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Anne Mary Howard, in religion Mary Agnes.
Born: in Saint Germain en Laye.
Died: 1 Nov 1794 in Paris, aged 74.

father: Mr Bernard Howard of Glossop, Derbys
mother: Hon Anne Roper of Lynsted, Kent

Conceptionists, Paris choir nun.
She was clothed 18 Aug 1735.

She professed 4 Sep 1736, aged 16. Her dowry was £300.

Discreet
Abbess 1751 - 1757
Abbess 1761 - 1767

She was the cousin of Anne Belasyse, Barbara Belasyse, Mary Bellasyse, Anne Stonor, Mary Sheldon, Catherine Sheldon.
She was the niece of Mary Roper, Philadelphia Roper, Elizabeth Howard, Mary Howard, Catherine Howard.

brother: Dr Charles Howard DD

Sources: Daumet: 155; Conceptionist Annals: 98, 103, 124, 129, 144, 151; Conceptionist Book of the Dead: 269-70; Conceptionist BP: 246.

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Family tree (Howard of Norfolk and Lords Stafford)
Family tree (Roper, barons Teynham)

Notes:

Great-niece of Cardinal Philip Howard, founder of the English Dominican nuns at Brussels.

Died in the confessor's apartment when they were imprisoned and buried at the Abbaye St Antoine: see Margaret Mason, The Blue Nuns in Norwich 1800-1805, Recusant History, No 24, 1998-9 104