Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Samuel’s mother.
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nee Kite, mother of eleven in fouteen years, was married 1626.
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She bore eleven children in fourteen years.
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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
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What year was margaret pepys born in?
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Margaret Pepys’s birthdate is not (yet) known.
References in the diary
- 1660
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Jan: 5, 6
Feb: 13, 28, 29
Mar: 3, 4, 7, 20, 21
Jun: 12
Jul: 18, 20, 22
Aug: 5, 24, 28
Sep: 14, 15, 24
Oct: 14
Nov: 4, 12, 25
Dec: 5, 9, 29, 30
- 1661
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Jan: 3, 4, 18, 30, 31
Feb: 2, 4, 5, 11, 12
Mar: 1, 13, 25, 26
Apr: 1, 2, 7, 21, 28
May: 19, 31
Jun: 3
Jul: 22, 25, 29
Aug: 13, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31
Sep: 1, 3, 4, 5, 23
- 1662
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Jun: 6, 11
Sep: 16, 27, 28, 30
Oct: 11, 14
Nov: 24
- 1663
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Jan: 8
Apr: 1, 4
Aug: 4, 12
Sep: 1, 19, 20
Dec: 31
- 1664
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Mar: 14, 17, 18
Apr: 12
May: 20
Jun: 30
Jul: 10
Sep: 9, 12
Oct: 14, 15
- 1665
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Apr: 26
May: 3, 14, 23, 29, 30
Jun: 7, 8, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22
- 1666
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Mar: 31
Apr: 19
May: 27
Jun: 20, 23
- 1667
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Feb: 28
Mar: 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28
Apr: 3, 6, 7
Jun: 29