| [Index] |
| Henry ANGEL (1791 - 1881) |
| Farmer, Grazier |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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Henry ANGEL (1836 - 1924) William ANGEL (1838 - 1891) Keturah ANGEL (1841 - 1932) Robert ANGEL (1841 - 1870) Richard ANGEL (1844 - 1907) Mary ANGEL (1847 - 1932) Sarah M ANGEL (1847 - ) James ANGEL (1850 - 1926) Edward Jonathon ANGEL (1852 - 1934) Samuel ANGEL (1853 - 1938) |
Henry ANGEL (1791 - 1881) + Mary BROOKER (1812 - 1890) |
William ANGEL ( - 1844) | ||
| Mary SHERAN SHERING ( - 1830) | ||||
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| b. abt 08 Jan 1791 at Woodgreen, Hampshire, England |
| m. 03 Sep 1834 Mary BROOKER (1812 - 1890) at Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia |
| d. 07 Dec 1881 at Lake Albert, New South Wales, Australia aged 90 |
| Parents: |
| William ANGEL ( - 1844) |
| Mary SHERAN SHERING ( - 1830) |
| Events in Henry ANGEL (1791 - 1881)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| abt 08 Jan 1791 | Henry ANGEL was born | Woodgreen, Hampshire, England | 71 | ||
| 05 May 1818 | 27 | Immigration | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | per 'Neptune' | 71 |
| 10 Mar 1830 | 39 | Death of mother Mary SHERAN SHERING | Hale, Hampshire, England | ||
| 03 Sep 1834 | 43 | Married Mary BROOKER (aged 21) | Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 16 Nov 1836 | 45 | Birth of son Henry ANGEL | Fairy Meadow, New South Wales, Australia | 1065/1836 V18361065 20 | 71 |
| 17 Oct 1838 | 47 | Birth of son William ANGEL | Fairy Meadow, New South Wales, Australia | 1109/1838 V18381109 22 | 71 |
| 05 Oct 1841 | 50 | Birth of daughter Keturah ANGEL | Fairy Meadow, New South Wales, Australia | 1516/1841 V18411516 25A | 71 |
| 05 Oct 1841 | 50 | Birth of son Robert ANGEL | Fairy Meadow, New South Wales, Australia | 1517/1841 V18411517 25A | 71 |
| 19 Feb 1844 | 53 | Birth of son Richard ANGEL | Fairy Meadow, New South Wales, Australia | 1867/1844 | 71 |
| 22 Dec 1844 | 53 | Death of father William ANGEL | Hale, Hampshire, England | ||
| 10 Feb 1847 | 56 | Birth of daughter Mary ANGEL | Hay, New South Wales, Australia | 946/1848 | 71 |
| 10 Feb 1847 | 56 | Birth of daughter Sarah M ANGEL | Hay, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 08 Mar 1850 | 59 | Birth of son James ANGEL | Hay, New South Wales, Australia | 947/1848 | 71 |
| 13 Jun 1852 | 61 | Birth of son Edward Jonathon ANGEL | Hay, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 18 Feb 1853 | 62 | Birth of son Samuel ANGEL | Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia | 4242/1853 | 71 |
| 19 May 1870 | 79 | Death of son Robert ANGEL (aged 28) | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| 07 Dec 1881 | 90 | Henry ANGEL died | Lake Albert, New South Wales, Australia | 71 | |
| Personal Notes: |
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ANGEL, HENRY (1791-1881), grazier, was born in Salisbury, England, son of William Angel and his wife Mary, née Shearan. Lacking formal education and a marksman all his life Angel became a skilled farm worker.
At 26, Henry, convicted of highway robbery in England, with a life sentence from the Warwick Assizes in July 1817, he was transported in the Neptune and arrived at Sydney on 5 May 1818. He worked in road gangs before being assigned to a farmer at Appin, near the properties of Andrew Hamilton Hume and William Hovell. In 1824 Hume and Hovell began their expedition to Port Phillip, accompanied by six convict servants including Henry Angel. Angel became the first white man to swim the Murray River at Albury, when he carried a rope across the river to aid the team's crossing. He was granted a ticket of leave in 1825 and a grant of land near the Tank Stream and the present site of Sydney Town Hall. The land extended to what is now Angel Place but it was poor farming land so Angel exchanged it for "better land" in the Corrimal area. He joined Sturt and Hume on an expedition to trace the Macquarie River. In 1824 he was one of six servants assigned to accompany Hamilton Hume and William Hovell on their journey of exploration in which they discovered the River Murray. Both leaders testified to Angel's ability in managing working horses and cattle and attributed part of their success to his careful planning of transport arrangements. On his return he was rewarded with a pair of bullocks and a ticket-of-leave for the Illawarra district. On 3 September 1834 at a schoolhouse near Wollongong he married the young widow, Mary Ledwidge (b. Hawkesbury River, 1812), daughter of 'John' Brooker, farmer, and Mary Wade, and in 1839 began buying small sections of farming land in Illawarra. In October 1840 Angel was granted a conditional pardon and soon afterwards, when squatting was rapidly spreading in New South Wales, he and John Rae took up the rights to Uardry station on the saltbush plains of the lower Murrumbidgee. In 1844 he rented his Illawarra farm and moved with his ever-increasing family to the Riverina. Like most inland stations Uardry was first stocked with cattle, and in the 1840s Angel periodically set off for Sydney, 450 miles (724 km) distant, with a ton of cheese. On such trips he invariably spent a night with Hamilton Hume near Yass. Despite early difficulties, including trouble with Aboriginals, Angel remained at the Heavenly Plain until the early 1860s when he sold the station leasehold and moved to Spring Vale, in the more settled district near Lake Albert, south of Wagga Wagga, where he lived and worked until his death on 17 December 1881, at the age of 91. With his remarkable energy and endurance he was described by James Gormly as 'one of the most reliable, honest, industrious men … abstemious, persevering and full of resource'. In his will he remarked how hard and long he had worked to gain his estate of several thousand acres and earnestly besought his children not to mortgage or part with it easily. On his death he left several dwellings, some dozen oddly-named pieces of land varying from 80 (32 ha) to 1000 acres (405 ha) each and many town lots scattered along the family track from Wollongong to Hay. The fertility of the Angels was a byword in the Wagga Wagga district. Besides two children from her first marriage, Mary Angel bore eight sons and eight daughters to Henry; she died in 1890 leaving 13 children, 90 grandchildren and 49 great-grandchildren. Angel and his wife were buried in the Church of England section of the Wagga Wagga cemetery. Select Bibliography A. Andrews, First Settlement of the Upper Murray, 1835-1845 (Syd, 1920); J. Gormly, Exploration and Settlement in Australia (Syd, 1921); J. J. Baylis, ‘The Murrumbidgee and Wagga Wagga’, Journal and Proceedings (Royal Australian Historical Society), vol 13, part 5, 1927, pp 294-304; Wagga Wagga Advertiser, 4 Oct 1890, 2 May 1891; manuscript catalogue under Angel (State Library of New South Wales). More on the resources Author: Gordon Buxton Print Publication Details: Gordon Buxton, 'Angel, Henry (1791 - 1881)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, Melbourne University Press, 1969, p. 38. Information downloaded from : http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030040b.htm |
| Source References: |
| 71. Type: Book, Abbr: Wagga Pioneers, Title: Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District, Auth: Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society Inc, Publ: Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society Inc, Date: 2004, Locn: http://www.waggafamilyhistory.org.au/ |
| - Reference = 5 (Death) |
| - Reference = 173 (Name, Notes) |
| - Reference = 5 (Immigration) |
| - Reference = 5 (Marriage) |
| - Reference = 5 (Birth) |