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| The Search and how it began. |
It was "internet" boredom that began the search for my family genealogy.
My first action was to type in the name of our station Binerah Downs into the Internet Explorer address bar just in fun. I was surprised to find that the station was listed on a number of sites including one from the UK that actually showed a map of how to get there.
This led me to type in my family name and to my surprise page after page came up with links to Angell family websites and more particularly to genealogy sites. I visited a number of the genealogy sites only to find that most of them focused on the American side of the Angells. I then opened the link to genealogy.com where I found information regarding the English side of the family.
I read a number of topics in the GenForum on the site and discovered that two brothers emigrated to Australia in the mid 1850's. A link here took me to Barb Angells site www.angellpro.com.au where it seemed to me that her line was somehow related to our line. As it turns out, Barb Angells Great Great Grandfather, William is the brother of our Great Great Grandfather George.
Based on known first names in the family line, I began to link back and found a George Angell who was born in Unley SA in 1853. The name and date suggested that it could well be our Great Great Grandfather. Further searching of the Genforum continued and this took some time as the amount of inquiries listed on the site is enormous. One other problem was that so many members of the family had the same christian names, yet different parents that it made following the lines difficult.
As it turned out an even older brother came to light by the name of John William who was born just days after arriving in Unley in 1849. It is this predecessor that was the link to my (our) past, my Great Great Grandfather and the first born "Australian" member of the Angell family.
I found a message on the forum that relayed some information given by our mother, Merle, from back in the 1960's when the search for an heir to the Angells millions was taking place. This led me to speaking to our mother who was able to confirm quite a lot of the information that I had pieced together and at the same time fill in some gaps that were missing on the Australian side of the family.
Researching the Australian side has so far proved the most difficult. I have managed to obtain free records which date up only until 1945 from government sources. To get records from this date on requires payment to the department for certificates of births death and marriages.
The records I have listed on the Angell's prior to their arrival in Australia, have been very kindly provided by Beryl Angell in England who had already researched the Angells in Calne and is still, today, researching the family.
Many thanks to Beryl for her help that allowed me to put this site together.
I still need a lot of help in gathering information on the family and in particular I need help from the present day descendants of all branches of the family. If you can help out in anyway what so ever I would appreciate it greatly.
Of course, the search continues and the project of writing the history will never be completed. However, I would like to hear from you with what ever information you can provide on your family if you are in some way related to the Angells in Australia.
For anyone living in Adelaide I would particularly like to hear from you and if possible, obtain photographs of members of the family you may have in your own collections and also photographs of any headstones or grave sites that may be found at Unley cemetery relating to the family members as I believe a number of them would have been buried there.
The search further led me to find some information on Calne and the English county, Wiltshire. Wiltshire is where you will find the famous "Stonehenge". To discover some of the history of Calne you can visit these sites;
www.northwiltslink.co.uk
www.calne.org.uk
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