Born before in Aldwincle, Northamptonshire, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Gwillim
and Elizabeth (Spinkes) Gwillim
Wife of
John Graves Simcoe
— married
30 Dec 1782 in Buckerell, Devon, England
Mother of
Eliza Simcoe, Charlotte Simcoe, Henrietta Maria Simcoe, Caroline Simcoe, Francis Gwillim Simcoe, Sophia Jemima Simcoe, Katherine Simcoe, Katherine Simcoe II, John Cornwall Simcoe, Henry Addington Simcoe and Ann Simcoe
Died
after age 87
in Honiton, Devon, England
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Biography
Elizabeth (Gwillim) Simcoe is Notable.
We dined in the Woods and ate part of a Raccoon, it was very fat and tasted like lamb if eaten with Mint sauce. --Diary entry, November 20, 1793
Elizabeth was the wife of the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe. They were married in Buckerell, Devon, on 30 December 1782[1]. She accompanied her husband on his five-year stay in British North America. Her diary, watercolours and drawings are a rich record of life in the Canadas during the 1790s.
Elizabeth died in Honiton, Devon on 17 January 1850, and was buried in Wolford Chapel, Honiton, Devon[2].
Sources
- ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKY7-5Y9 : 10 December 2014), John Graves Simcoe and Elizabeth Posthuma Gillam, 30 Dec 1782; citing Buckerell,Devon,England, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 916,763.
- ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 18886421: Elizabeth Posthuma Gwilliam Simcoe
- Quotation: John Ross Robertson. The Diary of Mrs. Simcoe. Toronto: William Briggs, 1911, 210. [1]
- Edith G. Firth, “GWILLIM, ELIZABETH POSTHUMA,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed April 24, 2016 "Biographi.ca
- Wikipedia: Elizabeth Simcoe
- Imago Mundi: "Political Tourism: Elizabeth Simcoe’s Maps and Views of Canada (1791–1796)"
- Wikidata: Item Q1331315
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Judith Robinson
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If anyone knows the current whereabouts of Mrs Simcoe's spinning wheel, which was given to Mrs Stephen Heward when the Simcoe's left Canada, please let me know.
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