Tuesday, 29 November 2011

A 'WELSH MARIANNE': FRANCES EVANS FORGOTTEN WELSH HEROINE - TIME WE REMEMBERED - HOW ABOUT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY WALES ADOPTING FRANCES EVANS AS AN ICONIC EXAMPLE OF COURAGOUS WOMEN IN WELSH HISTORY.

  

Take down Carmarthen Crown Court picture of historic 'torturer' call ...

www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Carmarthen-Crown-Court.../story.html
 - Block all www.thisissouthwales.co.uk results14 Nov 2011 – SOLICITORS have called for a painting of Sir Thomas Picton to be removed ... Wowcher · Local Vouchers ... SOLICITORS have called for a painting of Sir Thomas Picton to be removed from Carmarthen Crown Court after it emerged ... The portrait of General Picton at the Battle of Badajoz hangs above the ...

Sian Ifan Letter To Press:

Sir,

Interesting to note the issue in Carmarthen about a painting of General Piction in the town's Magistrates Court as being a cause of concern, I agree that it should be removed and would suggest that the space left by its removal be utilised to display a painting of local heroine Frances Evans of Newchurch who made a stand for justice in Carmarthen Work House on the 19th June 1843. I suggest this 'Welsh Marianne' as to be much more deserving of recognition than the brutal Picton.  No painting of Frances exists to date and I would suggest that the commissioning of such would be a very worthwhile project for, both, Carmarthen County Council and International Women’s Day Wales to pursue as a contribution to the day to 'Celebrate the Power of Women' and I can think of no other Welsh Women, other than Princess Gwenllian the 'Warrior Princess', so deserving of such ‘long overdue’ recognition in contemporary memorialisation.

Siân Ifan.
  

International Women's Day - Celebrate the Power or Women.

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Further Interesting and Usefull Information following:

FRANCES EVANS A WELSH HEROINE.

This post is dedicated to Frances Evans, Farm Servant and Single Mother of Newchurch near Carmarthen. We all too often forget to remember that as often as not Welsh Women stood alongside the men in struggles for social justice. Forgotten often due to fact that their names are not recorded and they remain anonymous participants in popular protests no less so than during the Rebecca Struggle. However, in the attack on Carmarthen Work House an 'Heroine' does force herself to the fore front of Welsh History, it was perhaps only for her '15 Minutes' of fame but nevertheless I believe for those heroic '15 minutes' when she stood upon a table in the work house and called upon the men to sack the hated institution into which social circumstance had placed her and many others. Frances was later to be captured with other rioters at Cilgwyn Uchaf, other rioters at Talog. After which Frances appears to disappear from history, though I am continuing my research into this fascinating young women, indeed a Welsh Heroine. I call for further recognition of Frances Evans, why not a statue for this our very own Marianne - 'Liberty at the at the Barricade'.
                                                            
 It is upon these very barricades that Liberty, the personification of freedom 
(who the French callMarianne) stands. She holds the tri-color aloft. 
smarthistory.org/romanticism-in-france.html -Cached - Similar              

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22 Jun 2011 – The attack on Carmarthen Workhouse took place in what was to be a...
 PITCHFORK and PIKE: SUNDAY OUTING FOLLOWING REBECCA TO ...

PITCHFORK and PIKE: SUNDAY OUTING FOLLOWING REBECCA ...

hanescymrugoch.blogspot.com/.../sunday-outing-in-footsteps-of-cor...
 17 May 2011 – PITCHFORK and PIKE .... After an attack by Rebecca rioters
onCarmarthen workhouse in June 1843, George Rice Trevor
 rushed back from his 

Their arrival at the workhouse led to a scene of indescribable confusion. ... 
David Williams, TheRebecca Riots Carmarthenshire FHS 12 October 1999 Return ...
www.carmarthenshirefhs.info/scmnwhs.htm - Cached

File Format: KML Document - View on Google Maps13 Aug 2009 ... SN4120 :
 Entrance to Carmarthen workhouse by John Duckfield Plaque commemorates 
the attack on the workhouse during the Rebecca Riots of 1843 ...
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1440681.kml
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GWILI Walk Leaflet 6fold

      PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View1840s, the Newchurch area was a stronghold for the Rebecca movement and the march that led to the dramatic attack on the. Carmarthen workhouse in 1843 began ...www.discovercarmarthenshire.com/activities/walks_pdfs/Bronwydd.pdf

Interestingly BBC recently dramatised the Trial of Piction.
  

BBC One - Garrow's Law, Series 3, Episode 3

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017znhv
The real cases behind Garrow's Law ... Garrow's Law aims to give viewers a window on life in late eighteenth ... The trial of Thomas Picton took place in 1806. ...

BBC - Media Centre - Programme Information - Garrow's Law

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2011/48/garrows-law.html
Garrow's Law. garrows-law.jpg. General Thomas Picton, Governor of Trinidad, is in the dock accused of the brutal torture of a16-year-old mixed heritage woman. 

"Let them hate as long as they fear" - Law and Lawyers

obiterj.blogspot.com/2011/11/let-them-hate-as-long-as-they-fear.html
Garrow's Law (Sunday 27th November) depicted the (first) trial of Thomas Picton - "Love or honour? It cannot be both". Picton was born in Pembrokeshire in ..

www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/.../nov/.../sir-thomas-picton-portra...
Portrait of Sir Thomas Picton by Martin Archer Shee. ... he was recalled to England in 1806 to stand trial for ordering the illegal torture of a slave. ..... the next episode of the BBC's Garrow's Law is based on the case and draws ..

Other Information:

If supportive of Suggestions made by Sian Ifan why not write saying so to the below:

Carmarthenshire County Council Website : Gwefan Cyngor Sir Gr

www.carmarthenshire.gov.uk/
Official County of Carmarthenshire Web Site. Provides information about living, working, touring and council services in one of Wales' largest counties.

International Women's Day Wales

www.cymruwomen.org.uk/
International Women's Day Wales... Many exciting events are being organized across Wales to celebrate International Women's Day 2011. Parties, lectures, live 

International Women's Day ...

South East Wales International Women's Day. Monday 28th ...

International Women's Day ...

North Wales International Women's Day. 5 March 2011 ...

International Women's Day ...

South West Wales International Women's Day. Sat 5th ...

Mid Wales International ...

Mid Wales International Women's Day Events. Sat 5th March ...

To Conclude why not Radicals hold annual commemoration to mark anniversary of attack on Carmarthen Workhouse:

19th June 1843


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