Researching Lady Pepys
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Records of Lady Pepys on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Lady Pepys and the Pepys Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Pepys Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Pepys family tree.
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Pepys Family History Databases
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Pepys Forums
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Some Famous People called Lady Pepys
Lady Rachel Pepys
Lady Rachel Pepys, DCVO (27 June 1905 – 17 August 1992) was a lady-in-waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, from 1943 to 1968.
Born Mary Rachel Fitzalan-Howard, she was the eldest child of the 15th Duke of Norfolk and his wife, Gwendolen.
On 31 July 1939, she married Lt. Col. Colin Keppel Davidson, a grandson of William Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle, and they had two children: Duncan Henry Davidson (b. 1941) and Harriet Mary (b. 1942), who married Michael Sefi, the current Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection.
Lady Rachel's first husband was killed in Tunisia during the Second World War. On 9 November 1961, she married Brigadier Anthony Hilton Pepys, who died six years later. She retired from the Duchess of Kent's household a year later and died in 1992, aged 87.
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