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

AN I.B.V.M. BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH MEMBERS AND MAJOR BENEFACTORS There have been so many changes of policy with regard to the terms Sister and Mother that it has seemed advisable to give the title Sister to all except those Superiors who were universally known as

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AGAR , Sister M. Teresa 1802-1836 Anna Agar was born in 1802 , in or near York, and was baptised in the Little Blake Street chapel that was the forerunner of St. Wilfrid's Church . In 1824 she was admitted to the Bar Convent novitiate and served the community successively as Mistress of Linen, Infirmarian to the community and Infirmarian to the school. She died on 10 December 1836 at the age of thirtyfour, of what was described as a decline. She is buried in the Bar Convent cemetery.

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1726 1806 ALLANSON, Sister Teresa Teresa Allanson was born in York in 1726 and was said to come of a good family. She joined the Institute at the advanced age of forty-seven and the annals of her life in religion are short but happy . As was common in those days of non -specialisation, she not only taught in the school but held the offices of Keeper

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of Linen , Dispenser, Assistant and Consultress, and at the same time was charged with the direction of the whole domestic workforce, an office she filled 'to the general contentment of all , for cheerfulness and activity of mind were the conspicuous traits of her character. She continued in office even when she had to be wheeled in an invalid chair, and when she died on 12 May 1806 at the age of eighty her death was a singularly joyful one." She is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard , Micklegate.

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d 1711 ANDERTON, Sister Christina, alias Hastings . Christina Hastings was born in Ashby, Leicestershire, the daughter of Henry Anderton, a small landowner . She was distantly related to Cecily Cornwallis and sometimes used her name as an alias. She was educated by the Institute in Paris and Munich and then followed Mary Poyntz to Augsburg where she entered the novitiate in 1662. In 1669 she was sent over to England where she assisted Frances Bedingfield in the foundation of the Hammersmith house. She was a member of the Dolebank foundation in 1677, sharing arrest with Father Pracid and Cecily

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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.