Catherine Pennefather

Short Name: Catherine Pennefather
Full Name: Pennefather, Catherine, 1847-1893
Birth Year: 1847
Death Year: 1893

Pennefather, Catherine, née King, daughter of Admiral King, of Angley, was married Sept. 16, 1847, to the Rev. W. Pennefather. Two of Mrs. Pennefather's hymns are in The Enlarged London Hymn Book, 1873. (1) "I'm journeying through a desert world" (Heaven Anticipated); (2) "Not now, my child; a little more rough tossing," 1863 (Working and Hoping). She died Jan. 12, 1893.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)


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