Elizabeth Allen
, who was not yet sixteen, was married at Ypres to Samuel Meeke
, an Englishman twenty years older than herself, with whom she had eloped (or by whom she had been abducted)...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Meeke
Samuel
and Elizabeth Meeke
filed legal documents of separation, according to which Elizabeth was to be permitted to live in such sort as if she were sole and unmarried.
qtd. in
Macdonald, Simon. “Identifying Mrs Meeke: Another Burney Family Novelist”. Review of English Studies, Oxford University Press, 8 Feb. 2013.