Lois Anna Malpas was born on 25th May 1858 in Mathern, Monmouthshire, the daughter of James and Kezia Malpas. He was a gardener. Her middle name fluctuates between Hannah and Anna through her early life. She was acting as her brother’s housekeeper on his farm in 1881.
The family were Wesleyans, and in 1883 she responded to a call from the China Inland Mission. Whilst working in China she met Samuel Thomas Thorne, who went out as a Bible Christian missionary in 1885.
They married on 24 April 1888, but she was widowed in September 1891 and returned to England. She made an impression on the Bible Christian conference, and around the country, and was sent back to China as a fully recognised Bible Christian missionary in 1894. After a further seven years in the field she succumbed to illness, as many of the missionaries did, and returned to England in 1901.
Although she was able to carry out some mission work at home she died at the age of 46 in Newport, Monmouthshire (not far from her origins) on 25th November 1904.
Circuits
- 1894 Chao Tong Fu
- 1897 Yunnan Fu
- 1898 Tong Chuan Fu
- 1901 on furlough
Sources
Oliver A Beckerlegge, United Methodist ministers and their circuits: Being an arrangement in alphabetical order of the stations of ministers of the Methodist New … and the United Methodist Church, 1797-1932
Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers
Joan Mills What are our thoughts on women preachers? :The Female Itinerant Preachers of the Bible Christian Church. pp56-60 https://www.myunitedmethodists.org.uk/content/people/ministers/female-ministers-bible-christian-connexion
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