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Anne Fleetwood, in religion Benedicta.
Born: 1665.
Died: 22 Oct 1748 in Dunkirk, aged 84.
father: Sir Richard Fleetwood 3rd bart of Colwich, Staffs
mother: Anne Golding of Colston Bassett, Notts
Benedictines, Dunkirk choir nun.
She professed 1686, aged 21.
Prioress 1712 - 1712Abbess 1712 - 1748
She was the sister of Barbara Fleetwood, [Michael] Fleetwood.
She was the great niece of Dorothy Fleetwood, Margaret Throckmorton.
Sources: Dunkirk History: 33, 56-80; BB Y61: 24.
Family tree (Fleetwood-Shirburn)Family tree (Golding)
Family tree (Sheldon of Beoly-Canning-Fowler-Fleetwood-Pershall)
Notes:
She lent a book of the convent's plain song to the Bruges Augustinians for them to copy and use at the request of their prioress, Lucy Herbert (Bruges Augs I ann 418-19).
Extract of mortuary notice in Latin in Bonvarlet 170-1