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Margaret Bedingfield, in religion Margaret of Jesus.
Born: 1646 in Norfolk.
Died: 19 Nov 1714 in Lierre, aged 68.

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

Carmelites, Lierre choir nun.
She was clothed 2 Jul 1670.

She professed 27 Aug 1673, aged 27. Her dowry was 6000 fl.

subject: portait, Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk

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

uncle: Fr Edmund Bedingfield canon of Lierre

Sources: Hallett, Lives: 206; Liv-I: 251-6.

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

Notes:

Hallett Chap 32 206; ...planned originally to join Benedictines in Paris because she was already familiar with them from her education with the Ursulines in Paris; however was delayed and decided to go to Lierre which her mother supported.

According to Conceptionists CRS Vol p323 went to school at Conceptionists Paris before becoming Carmelite.