Elisabeth Pepys
Elisabeth Pepys (née de St Michel; 23 October 1640 – 10 November 1669) was the wife of Samuel Pepys, whom she married in 1655, shortly before her fifteenth birthday.
Elisabeth Pepys | |
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Elisabeth Pepys in a stipple engraving by John Thomson, after a painting of 1666 (now destroyed) by John Hayls | |
| Born | Elisabeth de St Michel 23 October 1640 Bideford, Devon, England |
| Died | 10 November 1669 (aged 29) City of London, England |
| Resting place | St Olave's, London, England |
| Known for | Husband's diary |
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Her father, Alexandre Marchant de St Michel, was born a French Roman Catholic but later converted to the Church of England. He married Dorothea, a daughter of Sir Francis Kingsmill, in Ireland. Elizabeth was born at or around Bideford in Devon on 23 October 1640. She died of typhoid on 10 November 1669.
Elisabeth was a second cousin once removed of the writer Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea.
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