Records Volume 78: An I.B.V.M. Biographical Dictionary of the English Members and Major Benefactors

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good looks her speech was rough, and having recently learned about the University hierarchy she once startled a Benedictine priest by opening the door to him and asking brusquely, Are you one of them Fellers? She alternated between York and Cambridge until 1917, when she returned to the Bar Convent for good . A severe illness in 1935 seriously impaired her health and she died two years later on 5 October . She is buried in the Bar Convent cemetery.

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17th Century THWING (later BECKWITH) , Sister Anne Anne Thwing was the daughter of Sir George Thwing of Heworth Manor , and the sister of Catherine , Ellen and Bl. Thomas Thwing the martyr. She married Leonard Beckwith of Handale , Loftus, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Just when she was widowed and when she became a nun are not recorded, but by 1677 she was a member of the Institute and was sent from Germany to assist Catharine Lascelles , her sister, in the foundation at Dolebank. She was therefore one of those who, on 29 September, 'took horse at the gates of Sir Thomas Gascoigne's mansion and rode forth to enter upon the possession of their new home. A few months later members of the community were arrested in connection with the Titus Oates and Yorkshire Plots. There is no mention of Anne Beckwith in the Depositions of York Castle, so she must either have escaped arrest or been released without questioning . It seems that she went to Heworth where her uncle, Thomas Gascoigne, had purchased the Manor that her father had been obliged to sell . A community was set up there and continued to exist until about 1686; Anne is thought to have been a member of it, but it is not known whether she was one of the founders of the Bar Convent or (as seems more likely) returned to Germany . (See also Family Notes , p. 185).

THWING (later LASCELLES), Sister Catherine c 1633-1695 Catherine Thwing was one of the many children of Sir George Thwing of Heworth, and one of the three daughters who entered the Institute. She was born in Heworth Manor and at the tender age of ten was imprisoned by Young Hotham for being a member of a royalist family. She was still very young when she married Lieutenant Edward Lascelles and was shortly afterwards widowed . No date or place is given for her entry into the Institute, nor do we know where she spent her early years as a professed member; but she was the Superior of the party that 'took horse from Barnbow Hall in September 1677 and rode

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Records Volume 78: An I.B.V.M. Biographical Dictionary of the English Members and Major Benefactors

Published on Jan 1, 2001

The Catholic Record Society

This work spans nearly four centuries of apostolic endeavour. It is tempting to describe it succinctly as a biographical dictionary of the English Province, I.B.V.M., but the word Province would be anachronistic. For three hundred years there was no organisation in England that merited the term Province, and not until 1929 was the title bestowed on the English houses. The early history of the Institute in this country is played on a stage where transient actors come and go, some speaking significant lines, others - shadowy supernumeraries - making brief, silent appearances. This book records the individual history of those members whose religious -life was spent in England though some had made their noviceship on the continent, and some few died abroad. Taken together, the entries relate the fortunes of the Institute in England, but by their very nature only in a fragmentary way, so that a cohesive summary seems called for, and is therefore attempted in this introduction.