Angas [Angus] Family, Newcastle

Angas (Angus) family, Newcastle. The Angas/Angus familie were prominent Particular Baptists in the late 18th and into the 19th century in the Newcastle area. Besides George Fife Angas (1789-1878) (see his entry below), his relation William Henry Angus (d. 1832) served as a missionary with the BMS in the 1820s to seamen in seaports throughout Europe. Other Angases, such as Margaret Angus (c. 1750-1821) and her husband, Thomas Angus, and sons, were successful printers and booksellers in Newcastle in the last quarter of the 18th century and the first quarter of the 19th century (see her entry below on this site). See Walter D. Potts, “A Record of the Baptist Sunday School, Founded at Tuthill Stairs, Newcastle, April, 1807,” in Souvenir of the Sunday School Centenary Celebration 1807-1907 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Newcastle and Gateshead Baptist Council, 1907) 7; Angus Watson, The Angus Clan (Years 1588 to 1950) (Gateshead: Angus Watson, 1955),  93-106; John Bradburn, The History of Bewick Street Baptist Church (Newcastle-on-Tyne: n.p., 1883), 8; and J. D. Bollen, “English-Australian Baptist Relations 1830-1860,” Baptist Quarterly 25 (1973-1974), pp 303-304, n. 63. For a complete list of imprints by the Angases through 1801, see the entry under Margaret Angus at Nonconformist and Evangelical Women Printers and Booksellers, 1690-1825, ed. Timothy Whelan, at https://sites.google.com/view/nonconformist-women-writers/printers-and-booksellers-1690-1825/angus-margaret.