Hi Alan. Hope the following is a good start. I have, amongst my papers here, a contravertial newspaper article about Angas and Flaxman. Am happy for you to have a copy. Perhaps you could come visit sometime soon. ANGAS Geo Fife par : Caleb and Sarah Jameson fmly LINDSAY born 1.5.1789 Newcastle on Tyne NBL ENG d: 15.5.1879 Angaston SA bd: Lindsay Villa Estate SA arr: 1851 ASCENDANT occ: Merchant, Politician, Pastoralist and others res: Lindsay Pk, ANgaston rel: Bapt m: 12.4.1812 LND ENG Rosetta net FRENCH par: John born c1796 d: 11.1.1867 Angaston SA ch: Rosetta French JOHNSON, HANNAY (1813-1898), Sarah Lindsay EviNs (1816-1898), Emma JOHNSON (1818-1885), Geo French (1822-1886), John Howard (1823-1904), Mary Ann (1826-1831), Wm Henry (1832-1879) Geo Fife Angas (1789-1879), merchant, banker, landowner and philanthropist, was born on May 1st 1789 at Newcastle upon Tyne, the fifth son and youngest of the seven children of Caleb Angas (1742-1831), coach maker, and his second wife Sarah Jameson. At 19 he went to Howe's coach factory in London for a year and won favourable references from his employers. At 20 he rejoined his father's business as overseer. In London on 12 April 1812 he married Rosetta French, by whom he had three sons and four daughters. He discovered a talent for banking and helped to found the Provincial National Bank in 1833, the Union Bank of Australia in 1836 and the South Australian Banking Co. in 1840. In 1832 he joined the committee of the South Australian Land Co. interested in founding a colony where, with no established church and no convicts, citizens might enjoy civil and religious liberty. The South Australian Act of 1834 (5 & 6 Wm IV, c. 95) provided for appointment of a Colonisation Commission, and Angas was persuaded by Gouger to be a member. With Torrens as chairman the commission's first duty was to sell £35,000 of colonial land before the Act came into operation. Unfortunately the price of land was fixed at £1. an acre. As this was much higher than in New South Wales, sales came to a standstill after early enthusiasm. Angas came to the rescue by offering to form a joint-stock company to take up the remaining land at 12/- an acre. With little alternative the commissioners had to agree. With Henry Kingscote and Thomas Smith, Angas bought 13,770 acres (two-thirds of the unsold land) and in January 1836 transferred them to the newly-formed South Australian Company Later Angas pressed into the regulations a provision for special surveys, for those large capitalist who were willing to buy 4000 acres. The largest group of devout families that Angas persuaded to emigrate to the new colony were the German Lutherans under Pastor Kavel. When the Colonization Commission and the company refused to help, he personally advanced some £8000 to the Germans for their migration. On arrival many of them became tenants on his land at Klemzig and later at Angaston. In 1843 his three daughters married, and his sons, George French and John Howard, left for the colony, the latter to be his father's personal agent. In 1848 Angas decided to go to South Australia. At Lindsay Park near Angaston he made a spacious home, improving the property and building a chapel, roads and bridges. Soon after arrival he had been made a justice of the peace and member of the Board of Education. In August 1851 he entered the Legislative Council unopposed as the member for Barossa. In 1857 Angas was elected to the first Legislative Council under responsible government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fife_Angas http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/24805510?searchTerm=angas%20flaxman%20bright&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc Angas sent his chief clerk, Charles Flaxman to Prussia to meet with Kavel's group. Flaxman on returning, gave a favorable report to Angas, who then sought to have the South Australian Company meet the cost of the transport for the whole congregation from Hamburg to South Australia. This request was declined, and so Angas made a loan to this group of emigrants, by meeting the cost of securing vessels himself. In 1838, Angas chartered four ships on their behalf; Prince George, Bengalee, Zebra, and Catharina. This loan, along with another Angas had made to his chief clerk Charles Flaxman, who invested in land in South Australia, put him in a difficult financial situation the next year. Angas had borrowed heavily and sold his interests in the Union Bank and other companies. FLAXMAN Charles par: Thos Chas and Eliz nee SABBEN born 25.12.1806 Portsea HAM ENG d: 1869 arr: 1838 PRINCE GEORGE; dep VIC 1853 occ: Merchant res: Adelaide rel: C/E m: 23.3.1833 St Marylebone MDx ENG Jane nee BELL ch: Saml (1833-1848), John (1837-1901), Chas (1837-1858), Jane (1838-1839), Ellen Jane (1840-), Eliz (1843-), Maria (1844-), Emma (1846-), Mary Ann (1848-), Alice (1850-), Isabel Howard (1853-1854) The confidential clerk : a study of Charles Flaxman in South Australia and his relationship with George Fife Angas, by Sir Charles H. Bright Cheers from Di Cummings of Melbourne http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/BoundforSouthAustralia.htm