ATG letter: Pepys ‘heir’ was a nephew
MADAM – In Previews, ATG No 2392, it states: “On May 16, Bridport saleroom Busby in Dorset will offer more than 200 lots of furniture, silver, clocks and other antiques from the estate of Elizabeth Pepys- Cockerell, wife of the late John Pepys-Cockerell who was a descendant of the famous 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)”.
It also says that a “Colonel John Cockerell” was his grandson.
However, Samuel Pepys had no child…