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All Saints Church, Aldwincle, Northamptonshire.

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JOHN DRYDEN. ( Image and source : Wikipedia) John Dryden was a famous English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright. He became the first Poet Laureate of England in in 1668. He was born on 19 August 1631 at Aldwincle, Northamptonshire, England, to Erasmus Dryden and Mary Pickering. He was the eldest of their fourteen children. His paternal grandfather, Sir Sir Erasmus Dryden, was…

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22 and 23 September 1762: A Life Gained, Another Lost in the Gwillim-Spinckes Family or: A Very Special Baby

Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, née Gwillim in 1790, at 28 or 29 years old.

Today is 23 September 2021, which may sound insignificant, particularly when compared to a certain fairly recent meme-able date, but for me, there's some measure of historical significance connected to both 22 and 23 September. I originally planned on making this post yesterday but didn't get around to do it, so here it is now; those days were two rather important dates in the life of one of the historical figures I post about every now and then, and in 2021, they even fall on the same weekdays as they did in 1762, the year Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, née Gwillim, was born. This is going to be a post about her family and early life, and why those two dates in late September were so important, shaping her upbringing and future outlook on life.

Happy B... Baptism Day

We don’t know exactly when Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim was born; only that she was baptised in All Saints Church in Aldwincle, Northamptonshire, on 22 September 1762 (though the parish record misspells her name as Elisabeth Posthuma Gwilliam), her godmother being her maternal aunt, Margaret Spinckes (future Graves).

A persistent misconception about her year of birth that has over time been repeated in print every now and then is that Elizabeth was born in 1766, not 1762, which is easily refuted: both her parents died within nine months of another in 1762; not to mention Elizabeth Posthuma's baptism and her mother's funeral occurred within a day of another and are both listed in the parish register for that year.

All Saints Church, Aldwincle. By the way, All Saints is allegedly the first champing-church in the UK (champing being the thing where you can rent a disused church for an overnight stay, the word being composed of church+camping). So yeah, you can stay overnight where a host of Elizabeth's ancestors, including her mother and grandmother, are buried, her aunt married and she was baptised. Another, more famous name connected to All Saints is John Dryden, who was also baptised there, and also related to Elizabeth's family. Definitively on my bucket-list.

While the year is thus fully established, the exact date is not; we know she was baptised on 22 September, but the day of her birth remains unclear. A helpful detail that may allow pinpointing her birthday somewhere close to 20, perhaps even 21 September is the fact that Elizabeth was baptised on a Wednesday, not, as the Book of Common Prayer advises, on a Sunday:

The people are to be admonished, that it is most convenient, that Baptism should not be adminiſtered but upon Sundays, and other Holy-days, when the moſt number of people come together: as well for that the Congregation there present may teſtify the receiving of them that be newly baptized, into the number of Chriſt’s Church; as also because in the Baptism of Infants every man present may be put in remembrance of his own profession made to God in his Baptism. For which cause also it is expedient, that Baptism be miniſtered in the vulgar Tongue. Nevertheless, (if necessity so require) Children may be baptized upon any other day. [1]

In little Elizabeth Posthuma’s case, it’s possible that “necessity” did “so require”: given her mother had died and the baptism was performed even before the burial, her remaining relatives probably were particularly anxious for the life of the child, even more so in an age of high infant mortality that had struck the family previously in the generation of the new baby’s late mother and aunt: of six and five children of the Gwillim and Spinckes families in the generation of Elizabeth Posthuma's parents, only Elizabeth's aunts Elizabeth Sophia and Henrietta Maria survived their parents; of the Spinckes', only Margaret ultimately survived her mother (her father having died in 1749).

1762: Two Funerals and a Baptism

In 1750, Elizabeth Posthuma’s parents Thomas Gwillim (1726–1762) and Elizabeth Spinckes (1723–1762) married on 14 January in Whitchurch, where the Gwillims were based at a manor house called Old Court (which, similarly to All Saints Church in Aldwincle, is now a Hotel). Groom and bride were first cousins through their mothers. All her life, Elizabeth was very close to her sister Margaret, who would frequently stay with her at her marital home in London while her husband was away. The couple remained childless, yet was probably quite happy; relations with his in-laws were so good that Thomas even named Margaret as the beneficiary of his will in case something should happen to his wife, should she, unbeknownst to him while on campaign, predecease him- his intention to ensure his possessions would go to someone he approved of in the event of the deaths of both him and his wife proved to be prophetic.

Thomas, then a Lieutenant Colonel in the 50th of Foot, was stationed in Germany and returned home on his Christmas leave in 1761. After 11 years of marriage, it appears that a Christmas miracle happened- their first and only child was conceived during his leave. Sadly, this was to be the last time Thomas came home; he died a mere month later, on 29 January 1762 and is presumably buried somewhere near Kassel (Hesse) in Germany. He never received the news that his wife was expecting.

Elizabeth, recently widowed and pregnant, dissolved the London household she was no longer able to finance without her husband’s pay with the help of her younger sister and for some time, moved in with her in-laws, but returned home to Aldwincle for the birth. What exactly went wrong can’t be ascertained; at 38, Elizabeth Gwillim was old for a first-time mother, and there appear to have been severe complications, since she died shortly after having given birth; she lived just long enough to see her baby daughter.

Contrary to the fears the baby might not survive the first few days of her life, Elizabeth Posthuma, whose middle name had been given to her with the intention to reflect the sudden deaths of both her parents, grew up in what could be called a sort of ‘custody agreement’ between her maternal aunt and grandmother in Aldwincle, with whom she lived primarily, and the Gwillims at Whitchurch, whom the little girl visited frequently. Both paternal grandparents died when she was still very young, leaving only her two aunts Elizabeth Sophia and Henrietta Maria, with whom she was extremely close to the point that Elizabeth Sophia was the only person Elizabeth Posthuma wanted with her in the room when she had her first child in 1784.

Smells Like Teen Spirit

In June 1769, a third part-time home was added when her maternal aunt Margaret married Admiral Samuel Graves, who primarily lived on his country seat at Hembury Fort House in Devon. I really need to make a post about Margaret and her rather fascinating life at some point, but suffice to say here that she, a proto-feminist if you will whose views on women's rights and -education have barely lost any of their currentness even in 2021, had never planned on ever getting married at all before Cupid’s arrow struck.

When her grandmother died in 1776, Elizabeth was given the choice where she wanted to live, and she decided to stay with the Graves’. While Margaret Graves was strict and a disciplinarian to the core, Samuel Graves seems to have been more indulgent.

In a way, Elizabeth was as much a miracle to him as to her blood relatives; he had been childless from his first marriage and Elizabeth became the daughter he never had- substitutes for sons there were plenty, beginning with his godsons John Graves Simcoe and Richard Graves, the son of one of his older brothers, and countless nephews. Letters from later years between Elizabeth and her best friend since childhood days Mary Anne Burges are surprisingly relatable and give insight into how surprisingly little has changed about what it's like to be a teen: the two had sleepovers, stayed up late together on their so-called “vigils”, eluded Margaret’s school of strict discipline and bible study by quite literally running for the hills and made up secret nicknames in Spanish (which, surprise, Margaret didn't speak) for the somewhat kill-joy aunt.

While Samuel Graves was arguably the more indulgent parental figure in Elizabeth’s life, he apparently introduced her to his godson Richard while both were still fairly young, hoping the two might fall in love and get married once they were older. I haven’t found any historical proof for this particular anecdote, but the introduction of the two is said to have gone so spectacularly wrong that Elizabeth and Richard had a terrible row which ended with the tiny, less-than-5-foot (1,52m)[3] Elizabeth kicking him out of his uncle’s house. “Dick” as he was referred to in the family, and Elizabeth never got along for the rest of their lives to the point Richard was once again shown the door, this time of Elizabeth's own house- so much at least is well-documented.

While Elizabeth was very much aware of how special she was to her relatives, it seems as if she, in her younger years at least, did not quite care for the constant memorial to her parents that was her own name: an artwork signed by her as “Eliza Gwillim” and the name given to her firstborn, also Eliza (picked by the proud new papa in order to reflect his love for his wife) may indicate that sometimes, she wanted to be just plain Eliza- not Elizabeth Posthuma, on whose shoulders the expectations of her entire family weighed.

Speaking of the family's expectations, her aunt Margaret had had Elizabeth's life planned out for the latter in advance: she wanted her niece to grow up into an independent, unmarried woman who would thus not die in childbirth and could retain legal ownership of her vast inheritance instead of having to yield control of the same to a husband upon marriage. While I am willing to believe Margaret had good intentions after having been there to watch the sister who was also her best friend die, she appears to have had trouble letting Elizabeth go and allowing her to be her own person. She never accepted either Elizabeth's husband or her best friend and at least in case of the latter, tried to rid herself of a younger woman she saw as a competitor for her niece's affection time and again by treating her as unkindly as she could, hoping Mary Anne would one day just walk away.

However, like many children whose parents/guardians have had their life mapped out for them in advance, Eliza grew up and had other ideas. It probably didn't help that the only person self-assured and curageous enough to stand up to Margaret Graves was Eliza, who arguably had reached the necessary levels of self-confidence to oppose her aunt from the latter's very upbringing in which Eliza knew herself to be at the centre of the universe of all the adults in her life. The teen rebelled, and graduated from silly nicknames and hiding from her aunt by getting herself an older boyfriend the latter thoroughly disapproved of... But that's a story for another day.

Footnotes/References:

[1] The 1662 Book of Common Prayer as printed by John Baskerville in 1762 section on baptisms, p. 2 [accessed 23 September 2021].

[2] Here's an excellent family tree of the Gwillims, Spinckes' and SImcoes to disentangle all the different Elizabeths.

[3] While it was noted that Elizabeth was rather small, I don't know how her supposed approximate height was established; until the early 20th century however, a then extant garment (the skirt of a 1790s ensemble by the looks of it), worn by Elizabeth in Upper Canada, was kept at Wolford Lodge, so I'd guess the skirt was used to guesstimate a relative height. Sadly, the skirt almost certainly fell victim to a blaze in the first half of the 20th century that destroyed Wolford Lodge and its contents entirely; a rather bad photo from the 1910s, when John Ross Robertson, Elizabeth's first biographer managed to befriend the last Mrs. Simcoe, travelled to Wolford to collect images for his project publishing Elizabeth's Canadian diary, luckily survives.

For more on her early years, I warmly suggest this sadly somewhat dated, yet well-researched and to this date only biography of Elizabeth: Beacock Fryer, Mary (1989). Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe 1762-1850. A Biography. Toronto: Dundurn Press.

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Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe by Mary Anne Burges, 1790. Photograph by the Library and Archives of Canada, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons [accessed: 23 September 2021].

All Saints Church, Aldwincle. Photograph by John Sutton, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons [accessed: 23 September 2021].

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