Who were the Nuns?

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

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Nuns

Associated People

Elizabeth Bedingfield of Oxburgh, Norfolk: Anne Cobb (LC018), Mary Cobb (LC019), Elizabeth Cobbe (PA037), Dorothy Cobbe (PA036)

Frances Bedingfield of Oxburgh, Norfolk: Elizabeth Timperley (BF241), Frances Timperley (PC117), Justina Timperley (OB129)

Mary Bedingfield of Oxburgh, Norfolk: Catherine Eyre (LC027), Martha Eyre (LC028)

Frances Bedingfield of Oxburgh, Norfolk: Mary Caryll (DB030)

Details

Anne Cobb, in religion Anne of the Ascension.
Born: 1650 in Norfolk.
Died: 10 Aug 1692 in Lierre, aged 42.

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

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

Augustinians, Paris choir nun.
Having been schooled at the convent from the age of 8 or 9, she was clothed there but left

She professed 2 Feb 1671, aged 20. Her dowry was 4000 fl.

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

uncle: Fr Edmund Bedingfield canon of Lierre

Sources: Hallett, Lives: 204; Liv-I: 167-72.

Family tree (Bedingfield of Bedingfield and Redlingfield)

Notes:

Hallett Chap 32 204; clothed at the Paris Augustinians, where she had been educated, but decided to leave because she felt that there was too much conversing with the secular world and, more importantly, she could not bear the music so returned to her parents in England. Her uncle, Fr Edmund Bedingfield, visited the family home and suggested convents in Flanders.