William SCOTT

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation. The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository [March 1851]
Vol XXX or XIX third series
(p75) This does not, however, render it improper to refer to the devoted friend whose portrait, by a unanimous vote of the last Conference, adorns our January number.
(p101) Memoir of Mr William Scott, Truro by W Uglow. There are few distinctions among men which flatter the pride and vanity of the human heart more than that of an honourable pedigree. The posterity of warriors, statesmen and scholars, who have immortalized their names by deeds of valour, patriotism, and learning, pride themselves in being able to trace their descent from men so illustrious; but how much more enobled and honourable is the man whose progenitors were eminent for their piety and usefulness in the church of Christ! they were burning and shining lights, dispelling the darkness of the age in which they lived, epistles read and known of all
(p103)[Memoir of William Scott] - and has written some very good poems in the form of hymns which . . . His occupation was in the agricultural line, until he married Miss Ann Marshall, of Dunmeer, near Bodmin, who was a pious devoted young woman, and every way calculated to promote his well-being. This happy union took place in 1806. Of him it might be said with propriety. 'They were united and happy in life, and in death they were not separated', being entombed in the same grave within
. . . For a farther account of this amiable woman, see see Magazine, for October 1850, p. 479. Mr. Scott about the time of his marriage relinquished his agricultural pursuits for that of malting. Soon after he removed to Parr, a small seaport on the south-coast, and in this locality he remained till 1812, when he, with his family, removed to Liskeard, were [sic] he re-united himself to the Methodist society, and was soon actively employed in the Redeemer's cause.
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In the death of your worthy and venerable friend, W. Scott, the Truro circuit has sustained a serious loss. His place will not be easily supplied.
"and the cause of God. Against this as well as every other failing he offered up unceasing, and it is hoped successful, prayer. As a husband he was kind and affectionate; as a father he was passionately fond of his offspring. They twined round his feeling heart like little Benjamin round the heart of the venerable patriach; and like him his life and happiness seemed bound up with that of his children. They formed his treasure as they made his joy"
1841 Truro living with daughter Jane - described as gardener and older than his wife (ages rounded to 60 and 65)

William married Ann MARSHALL, daughter of John MARSHALL and Jane STEPHENS, on 14 Mar 1807 in St Blazey CON. (Ann MARSHALL was christened on 9 Dec 1778 in Bodmin CON and died in 1850 in Truro CON.)