Daughter of Lord Sandwich, married Philip Carteret in 1665.
Jemima Carteret (b. Mountagu, "Mrs/Lady Jem")
1893 text
Mrs. Jemimah, or Mrs. Jem, was Jemima, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Montagu. At this time she and her sister, Mrs. Ann, seem to have been living alone with their maids in London, and Pepys’s duty was to look after them.
This text comes from a footnote on a diary entry in the 1893 edition edited by Henry B. Wheatley.
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7 Annotations
First Reading
John Overholt • Link
Mrs. in the text does not have the same meaning as nowadays. Then it did not mean the woman concerned was married but rather meant Mistress and was generally applied to a woman of "superior" station.
language hat • Link
I can find no reference online to the birth dates of Jemima and Ann, but their parents were married 7 Nov. 1642, so they were presumably teenagers.
language hat • Link
Jemima was thirteen in 1659.
"A clever, merry, affectionate child... she was Samuel's favorite. For her, Mistress Jem as he called her, he was always ready to put himself out, to buy toys to send to her in the country and to romp with her when she was in town.... Poor Jem suffered from some malformation in her neck which prevented her from holding her head erect, and in the October of 1659 Pepys was busying himself among other matters in finding her a medical specialist.... by December the child was installed with her maid, Mistress Anne -- a somewhat shrewish party with whom Pepys had many an angry bout -- at Mr. Scott's."
--Arthur Bryant, Samuel Pepys: The Man in the Making (1933, new ed. 1967, p. 50)
I wonder if the "Mrs. Ann" mentioned in the note above is this maid and not a sister? The only sister Bryant refers to is Paulina (three years younger, and not a favorite of Pepys).
p benson • Link
Jemima "Lady Jem" 1646-1671
From the Pepys Family Tree in Claire Tomalin's biography of Samuel Pepys:
Eldest child of Edward Montagu and Jemima Crew. Followed by Edward "Ned", Paulina, Sidney, Anne, Oliver, John, Charles, Catherine, and James.
Her sister Anne was born in 1653 and was, therefore, about six years old in the first year of the diary. The diary references at this time must be to a maid, or is she more a companion who has accompanied Mrs. Jem to London for her neck treatment under Sam's supervision?
From the Tomalin biography: "...Pepys was kept busy visiting the Montagus' eldest child, fourteen-year-old Jemima, under treatment at the house of a surgeon who had promised to straighten her crooked neck, and escorting her younger brother Ned to his boarding shcool at Twickenham."
Mrs. Jem's grandmother was Paulina Pepys, half-sister of Sam's great grandfather John.
Second Reading
Sasha Clarkson • Link
Montagues and Carterets - a happier ending with an arranged marriage than with the love-match in Romeo and Juliet!
Bill • Link
Lady Jemima, eldest daughter, was married to Sir Philip Carteret, (eldest son to Sir George Carteret, Vice-chamberlain to King Charles the second) who being slain with his father-in-law the Earl of Sandwich in the great sea-fight in Sould-Bay, left issue by her George his son and heir, created Lord Carteret father of John the present Lord Carteret and Earl Granvil.
---The Peerage of England. A. Collins, 1756.
Philip Carteret http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…
San Diego Sarah • Link
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1…
"So to visit my Lady Jemimah, who is grown much since I saw her; but lacks mightily to be brought into the fashion of the court to set her off."
✹ Pauline on 9 May 2006 • Link • Flag
... I don't think he [Sam] means she looks dowdy. He appears to think that she can't be brought into fashion -- fancy clothes alone won't do it. Remember that at the beginning of the diary she was living in London to go through a series of treatments to straighten out her neck (with Sam as her guardian). I am afraid she is not a straight-carriaged and pretty young girl.