Elisabeth Pepys (1640–1669)

Timeline

• 23 October 1640

  Birth of Elisabeth de St. Michel

  Elisabeth de St. Michel is born at Bideford, Devon, to Dorothea (b. 1609, d. in or after 1674), widow of Thomas Fleetwood of Cork and daughter of the prominent Hampshire landowner Sir Francis Kingsmill, and Alexandre le Marchant de St. Michel (d. 1672), a descendant of a distinguished Anjou family.

• 10 October 1655

  Marriage of Elisabeth to Samuel Pepys

  Marries Samuel Pepys in an unrecorded religious ceremony. This is the date Pepys identifies as their anniversary in his diary. Elisabeth is fifteen years of age; Samuel is twenty-two.

• 1 December 1655

  Marriage of Elisabeth to Samuel Pepys

  Marries Samuel Pepys at a civil service at St. Margaret's, Westminster. Elisabeth is described as being of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. In the early months of their marriage they live in Samuel's attic apartment at Whitehall Palace.

• 1656

  Leaves husband Samuel

  Within a year of their marriage, Elisabeth leaves Whitehall to stay with her family at Charing Cross.

• December 1657

  Returns to husband Samuel

  Returns to Whitehall in December 1657.

• August 1658

  Move to Axe Yard

  Samuel and Elisabeth move to a house in Axe Yard, Westminster.

• July 1660

  Move to Seething Lane

  Samuel and Elisabeth move to to the Navy Office at Seething Lane.

• 10 November 1669

  Death of Elisabeth Pepys

  In June 1669 Pepys accompanies her husband and brother on a tour of northern France and the Netherlands where she contracts a fever, probably typhoid. She dies, age 29, at Seething Lane and is buried on 13 November beneath the chancel of St. Olave's Church, Hart Street.