Profile; Brian Binns [1717]

Richard Angus is my 10th great grandfather.I found an old family Bible and inside were records of my family and the start of a hand drawn tree. This had been started before the advent of the home computer and looked to be in my fathers handwriting. Having a computer and trawling the internet I found the site, Genes United Which I joined, entering the tree on their site, for some time little progress was made because I was not sure how to develop the tree any further. I also purchased a Family tree program which I found in a Supermarket and entered the basis of the tree onto my computer from the Bible. Then full stop, I did not know how to progress further. The tree program had a link to the site Ancestry.com which I did not pursue at that time. One day Genes sent me an email stating I had a message about my ancestor, my grandmother, Mabel Angas. The message was from Jeanette in Australia who sent me some files of the Angas line and the link s from Angas to Angus and Richard Angus. Later Jeanette, who is a fount of knowledge about the Angas/Angus clan provided me with even more information through which I am still patiently working my way, entering the details on my tree. This was the start. then out of the blue via Genes came a message from a gentleman, and I am so upset that I have forgotten his name, (Martin Graham springs to mind) who told me he had seen an Angus document by Michael Wilson and if he could obtain permission from Michael would I be interested to have a copy. He contacted Michael and his wife, unfortunately Michael was in a hospice suffering from a tumour on the brain but he and his wife kindly agreed. This gentleman copied the pages and at his own expense sent them to me. This opus by Michael (the notes in the text are Michael's except where I have put in a signed note. (Brian Binns) tallied completely and added to the information sent to me by Jeanette. I have added the Wilson families to this tree because I believe that they must be Michael's Ancestors however I have no idea where he fits into it.

As I entered more people on my tree the program kept nagging me to publish it on Ancestery so I succumbed and paid. Access to their Census records gave me more information.

Over the years I have been contacted by a number of descendants and freely passed on information which has been passed to me, the idea of this site is for Angus/Angas descendants to collaborate and posssibly add their individual trees to this site linked to this one so as to prevent this tree from becoming cumbersome and unwieldy. I will be contacting people I know to propose this idea.

Recently I was contacted by Ruth Jopling as there have been a number of marriages between the Joplings and the Angus/Angas she passed me an outline tree which cleared up some doubts about a Caleb Joplin her website is; http://www.jopling.info/ .

Brian Binns

My tree is Angas meets Binns in India