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Through the help of records on ancestery.com.au I have now been able to compile the family tree and am certain that all the details of descendants are now correct. The family tree of our branch of the Angell family begins with Roger of Angelli in 1460 and it was Roger that dropped the "i" from his name to use only Angell as the given surname.

Welcome to the new look angells-au.com which is a compilation of the history of the Angell family in Australia.

Note:The sixth and seventh generations will be added in the near future.

I have added a page for descendants which still requires a lot of formatting and editing.

The current descendants page follows the line once in Australia, of William Angell who made Kew in Victoria his home. It also follows the line of our own heritage through John Angell of Unley SA. I also now have quite a bit of information on Charles Angell and feel that it wont be long before I can also add his descendants to this history of the Angells in Australia.

I am also in the process of putting together a comprehensive list of all the Angells, from the beginning of our ancestery to today. This list will contain the names (where known) of all descendants from Roger of Angelli. Once done, I believe that angells-au.com will be the most comprehensive family history site of the Angell family, both in Austalia and England.

If you have any information on the family members from any of the generations shown in the family tree, I would appreciate a brief "resume" on them so the information can be included on this site thanks. If the family member is still living then I will require written permission to have the "resume" included on this website.

If you, the reader of this site, have any direct connection to any of the names that appear on this site and would like to have some details included of your ancestors then please feel free to contact me and I will endeavour to include that information with your assistance and permission.

If you feel the need to contact me then there is a contact form in the Site Navigation menu where you simply click the link and away you go. Your comments will be emailed to me and I will reply to you as soon as I get a chance to do so.

Thank you for visiting... Rod Angell (site owner)

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Tracing the Family History

Tracing one's family history is a challenging job when in a lot of cases, without records of any sort to guide you, you need to summise and that is the case with me tracing my own heritage here in Australia.

Through the help of internet user's I have so far been able to piece together a lot of the history but as is nearly always the case, there are a lot of blanks to be filled in and this is where one has to summise what life's journey had for members of their family.

I know the journey of my Great Grandfather (John William Angell) began in Unley in SA where he was born just days after his arrival in Australia. I also know that he left SA and headed to Victoria and then NSW where the first mention of him, using records, was in the township of Menindee NSW, located on the Darling River. I have since been able to trace his movements fairly accurately to Tibooburra NSW.

What I have put together so far on this website is as close to factual that I can ascertain, so I hope it helps you in your own search, if you are conducting one. If you are just visiting, then I hope you find the entire site of interest and enjoy your stop over here.

One interesting aspect of searching the family history with Australia being a Penal Colony in the early days, is, that it is a lot easier to find information of people who were deported for crimes in the UK. The entire line that our family comes from were free settlers and that makes searching a lot harder because detailed records were not kept of free settlers.

The only Angell who I can find that arrived as a prisoner is a James Angell, prisoner #8481 who was deported for the crime of "firing a haystack" and sentenced to 8 years. James arrived in Western Australia aboard the Vimeira in 1865 aged 33 years. Being of the same lineage as the Angell family that we are descendants of and being from Wiltshire, this would make James the son of Robert, William or Jonathon.

Since writing the above I have joined http://www.ancestry.com.au/ and have discovered that quite a few Angells/Angels arrived in the colony either as prisoners or crew members aboard the convict ships.

Frances Angell (1821) - John Angell (1808 and 1809) - William Angell (1823) - Friday Angel (1821) - John Angel (1825) and Walter Angel (1825)

These Angells travelled to Australia via New Zealand and either disembarked in Tasmania or NSW and it is my guess that the Angells who abound throughout the East Coast of NSW and Qld are descendants of these families.

Many Angells also landed in Western Australia as free settlers and the lines that live there today are no doubt related to them.

How far removed these lines are from my own family tree I am not sure but I can tell you this much, there are just too many of them for me to research in this lifetime.

The Angell "Men" - Tibooburra NSW 1908

L-R Ernest Angell, William G Angell, Alexander Angell, John T Angell (front). Our Great Grandfather John William Angell is holding the goat team.

About Early Australia

The first human habitation of Australia is estimated to have occurred between 42,000 and 48,000 years ago.

These first Australians were possibly the ancestors of the current Indigenous Australians. They may have arrived via land bridges and short sea-crossings from present-day South-East Asia. Most of these people were hunter-gatherers, with a complex oral culture and spiritual values based on reverence for the land and a belief in the Dreamtime.

The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, inhabited the Torres Strait Islands and parts of far-north Queensland. Their cultural practices were and remain distinct from those of the Aborigines.

Lieutenant James Cook charted the east coast of Australia on HM Bark Endeavour, claiming the land for Great Britain in 1770.

The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland was made by the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, who sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in 1606. During the 17th century, the Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines of what they called New Holland, but they made no attempt at settlement.

In 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast of Australia, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain. The expedition's discoveries provided impetus for the establishment of a penal colony there.

The British Crown Colony of New South Wales started with the establishment of a settlement at Port Jackson by Captain Arthur Phillip on 26 January 1788.

This date was later to become Australia's national day, Australia Day.

Van Diemen's Land, now known as Tasmania, was settled in 1803 and became a separate colony in 1825. The United Kingdom formally claimed the western part of Australia in 1829. Separate colonies were created from parts of New South Wales: South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, and Queensland in 1859. The Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia. South Australia was founded as a "free province"—that is, it was never a penal colony. Victoria and Western Australia were also founded "free" but later accepted transported convicts.

By 1820, 30,000 convicts and 4500 free settlers had arrived in the colony. The free settlers set up farms and businesses as the colony continued to prosper. Although the convicts endured many hardships in the early days, many eventually acquired respectability as a result of hard work and the skills many of them had in trades and professions.

From 1788 until penal transportation ended in 1868, about 160,000 men and women were brought to Australia as convicts.

In the first years after settlement very little was known about the interior of the continent or its vast coastline. There was increasing pressure to find land for farming and sheep grazing as well as new sources of fresh water and sites for other settlements.

Many explorers undertook difficult and hazardous expeditions north and south along the coast and west into the inland looking for a way across a line of mountains known as the Great Dividing Range. Later, others went into some of Australia’s most inhospitable interiors, including the arid Nullarbor Plain and central and north–west Australia. Many lost their lives.

During the next three decades, settlers followed in the footsteps of the inland explorers and spread out across much of the habitable parts of the continent.

The growth of the wool industry and the discovery of gold in New South Wales and Victoria in 1851 resulted in huge increases in the number of free settlers coming to Australia.

Australia’s total population trebled from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871.

Most of these new arrivals were British, but they also included people from the Americas, France, Italy, Germany, Poland and Hungary.

About 40,000 Chinese also came to Australia in search of gold – the single biggest group after the British.

Created on 08/10/2008 10:54 PM by Rod
Updated on 23/11/2008 07:28 AM by Rod

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The Angell "Men" - Tibooburra NSW 1908

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