Elizabeth Pepys

Elizabeth Pepys (Elisabeth St Michel) (b. 1640) was the wife of Samuel Pepys whom she married in 1655, shortly before her fifteenth birthday. Her father, Alexandre de St. Michel, was born a French Catholic, but converted to the Protestant faith. He married Dorothea, the daughter of Sir Francis Kingsmill, in Ireland. Elizabeth and her brother Balthasar were both likely born in Devon.

When Samuel Pepys was formulating what became the transformational theory of life in 1661, he shared some of his early ideas with his wife. Elizabeth stated that "Holy Writ sufficied", which disappointed her husband.