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   Simcoe
   Elizabeth °
   E. S. ; born as Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim / Lady Simcoe / Mrs. John Graves Simcoe ;
   John Graves Simcoe, Admiral Graves' godson & in 1791 appointed first lieutenant-governor of the province of Upper Canada ;
   6; 4 older daughters stay in Wolford, England, the two youngest came w. the Simcoe's to Canada
   1762 in Whitchurch, Herefordshire, England
   1850
   
   Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gwillim, died 1762 before her birth
   mother Elizabeth Spinckes, died 1762 shortly after her birth; mother's younger sister, Margaret, who Admiral Samuel Graves in 1769
   
   Canada
   a series of 595 water-colour paintings that depict the town of York ;
   
   
   botanical and topographical drawing, watercolour painting, painting, and etching ;
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:York_Harbour,_looking_west_from_the_mouth_of_the_Don_River,_c._1793.jpg ;
   http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?BioId=37540 ;
    Dictionary of Canadian Biography 7 (1966): 361; The diary of Mrs. John Graves Simcoe: wife of the first lieutenant-governor of the province of Upper Canada, 1792-6 ; w. notes & a biography; Robert 2008: 52ff.; Mary B.Frayer: Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim 1796-1850, ed. 1978: A Biography, Toronto 1989;
   Artist & diarist, born in England, but since 1791 active in colonial Canada.
   20479722
   
   







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