Mary Thimelby

They harboured many priests including Henry Garnet who was executed in 1605 for his part in the Gunpowder Plot.

Her father wanted to have at least one of his children to follow a religious life and Mary decided that she would like to be a nun.

[2] She and her younger sister, Frances, joined the nuns at St. Monica's Convent in Louvain in Flanders.

[4] She was a notable letter-writer and she was unanimously voted in as the new Prioress after Margaret Throckmorton died on 26 October 1668.

[2] In 1658, after the deaths of her husband and only child, Gertrude Thimelby, her sister in law became a nun at St. Monica's Convent.