06. Reverend John Angus 1724 [29]

PARENT 05. John Angus [9]

REVEREND JOHN ANGUS, b. 24 July 1724 Styford, Hexham; d. 12 Dec 1801, aged 77 at Bishop Stortford bur. St Michael's Church, Bishop Stortford

On 5 August 1751 at St Michael's Church, Bishop Stortford he married ABIGAIL RANKIN.

REVEREND JOHN ANGUS: 54 years minister of the Independent Congregation Chapel, Bishops Stortford

Rev John Angus (1724–1801) arrived in 1748, and it was largely through his efforts that a brick-built chapel replaced the barn on this site in 1767. It cost £700. 7s. 8d. and measured 44 ft by 40 ft. He lived in a house adjoining the chapel, but there was limited space here and certainly no room for a burial ground. When Rev Angus died in 1801 he was buried in St Michael’s churchyard. His house was then bought and demolished for use as a burial ground, but not until 1855 and the creation of New Cemetery at Apton Road, did local Congregationalists have their own resting place. A number of tombstones from the original small graveyard in Water Lane now stand against the wall alongside the church entrance.

Children of REVEREND JOHN & ABIGAIL ANGUS

i. MARY ANGUS [64]

ii. DEBORAH ANGUS

iii. JOHN ANGUS d. 24 February 1776