Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Samuel’s mother.
nee Kite, mother of eleven in fouteen years, was married 1626.
She bore eleven children in fourteen years.
On 15 Oct. 1626 John Pepys married Margaret Kite of Newington Green, a girl of simple birth who had been a washmaid in her youth. The baptisms of eleven of their children and burials of seven are recorded in the church registers….—tetchy, improvident and invalidish—seems to have been less likeable [than her husband]. She was apparently a sectarian, and it may be significant that before marriage she worked in the household of Lady Vere, a prominent Puritan, and that some of her relatives (the Gileses) were Quakers. She died in 1667.
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Entries mentioning ‘my mother’ through May 31, 1661
13 February 1659/60: while my mother sent her maid Bess to Cheapside for some herbs to make a water for my mouth
28 February 1659/60: (calling in my way and saw my mother)
29 February 1659/60: So to my mother