| LC control no. | nr 90025839 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Simcoe, Elizabeth, 1762-1850 |
| Variant(s) | Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1762-1850 Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim, 1766-1850 Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim, 1762-1850 Simcoe, John Graves, Mrs., 1762-1850 |
| Associated country | Great Britain Upper Canada |
| Birth date | 1762-09 |
| Death date | 18500117 |
| Place of birth | Aldwincle (England) |
| Profession or occupation | Diarists |
| Found in | Fryer, M.B. Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe, 1762-1850, 1989: Can CIP (Simcoe, Elizabeth, 1762-1850) LC in RLIN, 11-16-90 (hdgs: Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim, 1766-1850; Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim, 1767-1850; Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma (Gwillim), Mrs., 1766-1850; usage: Elizabeth Simcoe; Mrs. John Graves Simcoe) Oxford DNB online, 12 Sept. 2014 (Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe [née Gwillim] (1762-1850), diarist and artist, was born in September 1762 and baptized on 22 September at Aldwincle, Northamptonshire; her father died before her birth and her mother in childbirth; the orphaned heir to land in Northamptonshire and Herefordshire was given the name of Postuma in recognition of her situation; she married Lieutenant-Colonel John Graves Simcoe (1752-1806) on 30 December 1782; the Simcoes built Wolford Lodge on the Devon estate that Elizabeth inherited; in 1791 he was appointed lieutenant-governor of the new colony of Upper Canada and the Simcoes sailed from Weymouth in September 1791; Elizabeth Simcoe's renown in Canada is based on the diaries she began keeping on that trip; she died at Wolford on 17 January 1850, aged eighty-seven) |
| Associated language | eng |
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