Hello Mary Jane
Thank you for your question about the 'Nott' statue in Nott Square
Carmarthen Town which is shown on our webb site for Carmarthen Town.
General Sir William Nott (1782-1845)
General Sir William Nott can be claimed as Carmarthen's most famous soldier,
for although born at Neath on 20th January 1782, he counted Carmarthen as
his home and was associated with it from his youth. He returned to
Carmarthen twice during his career, the last time at the height of his fame
in 1844, to die soon afterwards. He was the second son of Charles Nott a
well known English agriculturalist, of Shobdon in Hereford, who came to
Wales at the invitation of Sir Herbert Mackworth of Neath. William received
his early education at Neath and Cowbridge Grammar School.
Charles Nott came to Carmarthen in 1794 to become the proprietor of the Ivy
Bush Inn in King Street, where he was also a mail contractor. He also took
over Pont Garreg Farm, Johnstown, not far from Job's Well, which was later
to become William's home.
He resided temporarily at 8 Nott Square (then called Market Street), while
more than 100 workmen were employed in rebuilding his old home in Job's
Well, although he never lived to see it, as he died on 1st January 1845, and
buried at St Peters Church near the grave of his mother and father.
His monument in Nott Square and his portrait in the Guildhall are the local
tributes to a great soldier. The bronze figure was cast from the guns
captured at the battle of Maharajpur and presented by the East India
Company. In 1955 General Nott;s medals and insignia were presented to the
town by his great grandsons, Sir John and Sir Guy Nott-Bower.
The above was extracted from 'The Story of Carmarthen' by Joyce and Victor
Lodwick. I have found this book to be of immense interest for information
about Carmarthen Town.
Hope you found the above of interest, there are three pages written about
his history, but I have just included the points which I thought would give
an insight into who and what he was.
Regards
Pauline James
Carmarthenshire FHS
http://members.aol.com/cmnfhs1/
-----Original Message-----
From: MaryJane Maulsby [mailto:maulsby@bellsouth.net]
Sent: 28 September 1999 01:55
To: CARMARTHENSHIRE-FHS-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CmnFHS] Parish church photographs
I have just looked at the parish church photographs on the members web
site and enjoyed them. I was looking at St. Peters, Carmarthen and then
the pictures of Carmarthen Town. May I be so bold as to ask who the
statue "Nott" might be?
I would also like to share something that a real friend did for me about
a year ago. She and her husband were on their second walking tour of
Wales and with one more day left, she boarded a train and took a two
hour ride to Carmarthen just for me. She picked up information about
St. Peters and actually attended a Strawberry Tea at the vicarage and
met the vicar. My gt-gt grandparents were married at St. Peters in 1837
and my gt-grandfather was christened there. She was going to try to
read some of the headstones in the graveyard, but she said they were too
hard to read.
Mary Jane Mills Maulsby
Decatur, Georgia
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