Jeanette Threlfall

Born:  March 24, 1821, Blackburn, Lancashire, England.

Died:  November 30, 1880, St George’s Hospital, Hyde Park, London, England.

Buried: Highgate Cemetery, London, England.
James Burns, John Calkin, Christina Rossetti and William Monk lie nearby.

    Daughter of a wine merchant, Jean­ette was orphaned while young, and became the “beloved inmate” of the homes of her uncle and aunt, Bannister and Mary Jane Eccles, at Park Place, Blackburn, and Golden Hill, Leyland. Later she lived with her cousin, Sarah Alice Aston, at Dean’s Yard, Westminster. She eventually had an accident which left her a life­long invalid, giving her much time to write poems and hymns. Her works include:

• Woodsorrel; or, Leaves from a Retired Home
• Sunshine and Shadow (London: Hunt, 1873)

Hymns

1. Hosanna, Loud Hosanna
2. I Think of Thee, O Savior
3. Lo, to Us a Child Is Born
4. Thou Bidd’st Us Seek Thee Early
5. We Praise Thee in the Morn­ing
6. When from Egypt’s House of Bondage