Jannet (Jessie) Brodie (1793–1873)

Scottish children’s nurse. Cared for the children of William Makepeace Thackeray, and for the Darwin children at 12 Upper Gower Street and Down House, 1842–51. Retired to Portsoy, Scotland, in 1851, after Annie Darwin’s death.

Sources

Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 86

Freeman 1978

ODNB s.v. Thackeray, William Makepeace

Scotland old parish registers births 153/00 0030 0135 Fordyce (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 29 January 2015)