Who were the Nuns?

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

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Josepha Carrington
Died: 3 Nov 1785 in Cambrai.

father: Francis Smith Esq of Aston, Shrops
mother: Catherine Southcote

Benedictines, Cambrai choir nun.

She professed 1759.

She was the cousin of Mary Fitzherbert.
She was the kinswoman of Mary Simeon-Weld.

Sources: Cambrai convent list.

Family tree (Brinkhurst-Curzon-Southcote)
Family tree (Smith Carington)

Notes:

parents from bib dict and Birt 1913, p229. After the family were granted the Carrington title, some members use Carrington or Carington as a surname.