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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 more than 550 years ago with Roger of Angelli (Roger deAngeli) in 1460 and it was Rogers only son Robert, that dropped the "i" from his name and thus began the line of Angell's that my ancestry is related to.

May 2010: A community forum has now been added to this site to enable members of the Angell family researching their family history to share the information with each other so I urge you to use this forum. Registration is required before you can post on the forum. Registration of the forum is separate to subscribing to the main site.

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Free Memberships are now available on this website (preferably) through the Community Forum where as a member you can interact with other members of the Angell's extended family and at the same time post what you know or have learned over the years, about any branch of the family history.

I invite you all to join so that we (the Angell family) can stay in contact with each other while at the same time continue to compile our family history.

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Angell family in Australia

Note: Even though this site is designed basically for information on the Angell family in Australia, I have also included a lot of information that I have been able to gather on the Angell's in the UK. Included are stories relating to the Angell's Million's and some history of that (unrelated) side of the family. I hope you find it interesting.

The current descendants page follows the line once in Australia, of John Angell of Unley SA. It also follows the line of John's brother, William Angell who made Kew in Victoria his home. I also have quite a lot of information on the Second Generation family members.

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 from them to have the information included on this website. Please feel free to correct any information you see on this site at any time by contacting me with references to your information.

If you 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 administrator)

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.

Created on 08/10/2008 10:54 PM by Rod
Updated on 26/03/2011 02:48 AM by Rod