Who were the Nuns?

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

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Ann Woolrich, in religion Mary Thomasina.
Born: in Market Drayton, Shrops.
Died: 12 Jan 1795 in the Augustinians convent, Paris, aged 55.
Convert.

father: Thomas Woolrich prot of Market Drayton, Shrops
mother: Elizabeth Grippen

Conceptionists, Paris lay sister.
She was clothed 27 Feb 1760.

She professed 5 Aug 1761, aged 22.

Sources: Conceptionist Annals: 139, 146; BD: 270; BP: 250.

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BP p250 explains she was 'brought up a Protestant, but made my abjuration in the 20th year of my age'