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Ann Bedingfield, in religion Ann of the Angels.
Born: 1650 in Norfolk.
Died: 18 Feb 1700 in Lierre, aged 50.

father: Sir Henry Bedingfield 1st bart of Beck Hall, Billingford, Norfolk
mother: Margaret Paston of Appleton, Norfolk

Carmelites, Lierre choir nun.
She was clothed 16 Jul 1669, aged 18.

She professed 16 Jul 1670, aged 18. Her dowry was 4000 fl.

subject: Portrait, Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk

She was the aunt of Martha Eyre , Catherine Eyre , Mary Caryll.
She was the sister of Margaret Bedingfield.
She was the cousin of Anne Cobb, Mary Cobb, Justina Timperley, Dorothy Cobbe, Elizabeth Cobbe, Frances Timperley, Elizabeth Timperley.
She was the great niece of Catharine Paston, Margaret Paston.

uncle: Fr Edmund Bedingfield canon of Lierre

Sources: Hallett, Lives: 205; Liv-I: 211-16.

Family tree (Bedingfield of Bedingfield and Redlingfield)
Family tree (Paston and Towneley)

Notes:

Kirk has Paston also of Horton, Gloucs. Mother's affiliation shown in manuscript pedigree in Norfolk Record Office BL/AD/3/9. See also J.N. Langton, 'The Pastons of Horton', in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1958, Vol. 77, 97-126.