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<p>[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 1488744, member: 23"]All I know is my g-g-aunt's rosary was even plain wood. She wouldn't have been allowed to keep a watch like that. I don't know what convent she belonged to. I have a photo of my grandmother as a child with all the other girls who lived at the convent. Families often sent their girls to live at the convent and go to school there until they were old enough to either work or marry. My mother was born in 1909 and she was sent there until she was 10 or 12. She said it was very strict. I had a great-uncle who was a priest, too. It was quite common in French Canadian families for at least one girl to become a nun and one boy to become a priest or a brother.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 1488744, member: 23"]All I know is my g-g-aunt's rosary was even plain wood. She wouldn't have been allowed to keep a watch like that. I don't know what convent she belonged to. I have a photo of my grandmother as a child with all the other girls who lived at the convent. Families often sent their girls to live at the convent and go to school there until they were old enough to either work or marry. My mother was born in 1909 and she was sent there until she was 10 or 12. She said it was very strict. I had a great-uncle who was a priest, too. It was quite common in French Canadian families for at least one girl to become a nun and one boy to become a priest or a brother.[/QUOTE]
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