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A History of the County of Lancaster
… and two sisters. 26 A convent of French Benedictine nuns, driven out of their country by the Revolution, in the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… adjoining it, built in 1861. There is also a convent of nuns of the Good Shepherd who have an asylum for penitent …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… spinner, M.P. for Preston 180426. The English Benedictine nuns of Ghent, driven from their house by the Revolution in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… two sons, Hamlet and Francis, and two daughters who became nuns. 61 Hamlet died before his father, leaving an only …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… daughters one married, and the others became Franciscan nuns. He is said to have joined the Young Pretender in 1745; …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… all died without issue, three of the daughters being nuns. Some other members of the family are named; ibid. 96, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Abbot of Sawley transferred it, at the same rent, to the nuns of Hampole, 55 and the prioress and convent in 1259 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… part of Henry II's grant of land called Lindhurst to the nuns of Farewell priory. 115 At the priory's dissolution in … late 18th century. About 1170 Geoffrey Peche gave to the nuns of Farewell priory at the behest of his son Richard the … daughter Sarah on becoming a nun at Farewell. 121 The nuns received other grants of land in the area, including one …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 'entered into religion in the order of the [Gilbertine] nuns at Watton' in the East Riding; while Emma, the eldest …