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Paulina Pepys ("Pall", sister)

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  • N Lawrence on Mon 10 Nov 2003, 09:29pm

    Paulina (“Pall”) Sam’s Sister

  • N Pauline on Thu 26 Aug 2004, 12:53am

    from L&M Companion
    Paulina (Pall) was born on 18 Oct. 1640 and entered Pepys’s household as a servant in Jan. 1661. Pepys writes of her at this time as both ill-natured and ill-favoured. She was not thought worthy of being Elizabeth’s waiting-woman and was made to stand in her presence. In the following August when her parents moved to Brampton she was sent there to look after them. By 1664 Pepys was trying to marry her off. Seven potential husbands are named in the diary….

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References in the diary

1660
Nov: 9, 12
Dec: 29
1661
Jan: 1, 2, 4, 9, 15
Feb: 22
Mar: 15
Apr: 2
Jun: 23
Jul: 23
Aug: 13, 22, 25, 26, 31
Sep: 5
1662
Jun: 6, 11
Oct: 11, 14
1663
Jan: 4, 16
Feb: 19
Apr: 1, 23
May: 14
Jul: 1
Sep: 15
Nov: 6, 30
Dec: 31
1664
Feb: 9, 10, 21
Mar: 20
May: 16, 17
Jun: 19
Aug: 7
Sep: 12, 19