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Mary Cobb, in religion Mary of the Incarnation.
Born: 1651 in Norfolk.
Died: 1710, aged 59.

father: William Cobbe of Sandringham, Norfolk
mother: Elizabeth Bedingfield of Oxburgh, Norfolk

Carmelites, Lierre choir nun.
She was clothed 20 Dec 1670.

She professed 2 Feb 1671, aged 22. Her dowry was 4000 fl.

She was the cousin of Justina Timperley, Frances Timperley, Elizabeth Timperley, Ann Bedingfield, Margaret Bedingfield.
She was the sister of Anne Cobb, Elizabeth Cobbe, Dorothy Cobbe.
She was the kinswoman of Mary Bedingfield.

uncle: Fr Edmund Bedingfield canon of Lierre

Sources: Hallett, Lives: 204; Liv-I: 242-7.

Family tree (Bedingfield of Bedingfield and Redlingfield)

Notes:

Sent to the Augustinian nuns at Paris with her sister, where she was a school pupil. Her vocation to the Lierre Carmelites was due to Fr Edmund Bedingfield, her uncle.