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Catholic Nuns
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we've just found that one of the ancestors went into a nunnery about 1920, she was born in 1905 in london and died aged 68 in Torbay Devon, anyone know what nunnerties there were there at all?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.yes in torbay, i've ordered the death certificate, it occurred to me that nuns must have their death registered under their birth name rather than the name given them by the Church but i also assume there will be an AKA name on there too, she was removed from the house with her brothers and sisters when she was 6 by the Nuns in Stepney and was never returned to the family and was lost to them for the rest of their lives. He rparents both died in the east end slums within a month of each other in 1911.
that is an excellent link , there is a picture of a convent on there
http://www.torbaymuse...w&gallery=1&Itemid=10
http://www.torbaymuse...w&gallery=1&Itemid=10
I've found the one in Torquay called Stoodley Knowle which looks a favourite at the moment but until we get the death certificate which will give us more info it's abit of guess work. We've been looking for her for a number of years and only found her death entry tonight using the ancestry.co.uk death index . Why it has never shown up before i don't know, but ancestry does update all the time and maybe it was never indexed before.