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Collingrove and the Angas family Church.
John Howard Angas emigrated to SA in 1843 to oversee some of his father’s business interests. In 1854 John Howard
Angas returned to England, married and then returned to Angaston where his brother-in-law designed and built Collingrove homestead in 1856 for John Howard Angas and his wife Suzanne Collins. Hence the house was named Collingrove. In 1874 John’s father, a devout Baptist, had a small chapel built for his employees and family to worship in. It opened as a Congregational Church. The Congregational minister from Keyneton usually conducted the services there. Angas supported all protestant denominations but he was openly hostile towards Catholics. John Howard Angas was buried from this church in 1904. He left £2,000 in his estate to the Congregational trustees to continue to run the church. When the Anglican Bishop took over the church in 1911 a court case was threatened as the trustees had possibly breached the trust placed in them by the will of John Howard Angas. The church became St. Faiths Anglican until it closed. It was closed by the time Ronald Angas, grandson of John Howard Angas donated Collingrove to the National Trust in 1976.
Hutton Vale.
John Howard Angas was born in Newcastle in 1823 but raised in the village of Hutton from the age of four - at first as a boarder and then with his parent who moved there too. At the age of 20 John Howard Angas was sent to South Australia by his father and his first home and residence he called Hutton Vale farm. It was on part of his father’s seven Special Surveys along the North Para River. The current owner of Hutton Vale farm is John Angas whose great great grandfather was John Howard Angas. The property is on Hutton Vale Road which runs from Collingrove to Moculta. Upon arrival in 1843 John Howard Angas had a stone house built at Hutton Vale which was his residence until Collingrove was erected in 1856. Today Hutton Vale’s 2,000 acres is the last of the original 28,000 acres still owned by the Angas family in the Barossa Valley. John Angas has lived in the house at Hutton Vale all of his life. It is a mixed farm with fruit trees, vines sheep and grain. The old 1850s grain store is now the kitchen for John’s residence. The farm has tourist accommodation, garden produce and cellar door sales of wine from Riesling, Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache Mataro grapes. Only the roof top of Hutton Vale house is visible from the road.
Lindsay Park.
This house was built in the late 1840s as a home for George Fife Angas with the architect being his son-in-law Henry Evans. Henry Evans had married a daughter of George Fife Angas and he was the one who designed Collingrove homestead and Lindsay Park homestead for the Angas family. Henry’s wife was so opposed to alcohol and wine making that she made Henry have his grape vines grafted with currents rather than grapes for wine. Thus, almost by accident Henry Evans founded the dried fruit industry in the Angaston district! When George Fife Angas came out to SA Henry Evans and his family moved to Keyneton a mile or so away. From 1851 Lindsay Park was used as the family home of the “founder of SA” George Fife Angas. It was extended several times. After George Fife Angas’ death the house and property remained in the Angas family until 1965 when the last inheritor of the Lindsay Park, Sir Keith Angas, sold the property to horse breeding trainer Colin Hayes. It was then developed into the preeminent horse training facility and breeding stud in Australia. Even Queen Elizabeth visited there on one of her trips to SA. When Colin Hayes retired in 1990 the stud and training facility was continued by his son David Hayes. David Hayes sold his share of Lindsay Park facility to his nephew and business partners in 2008 when he moved to Euroa in Victoria. The property was then sold to winemaker David Powell for $10 million in 2013 to become an exclusive tourist resort. Recently in 2023 this property has been sold to the Brendan Smart family from Keith who want to return the property to its original use as a sheep and cattle property. The mansion is not visible from the road. Both George Fife Angas and his wife and John Howard Angas and other family were buried in the family vault at Lindsay Park estate. There is no public access to this private family vault of one of the main pioneering families of South Australia or to the estate.
Truro and the Angas family.
Lachlan McBean of Baldon station took out a lease covering the lands east of Truro in 1845 but the seven Special Surveys taken out by Charles Flaxman on behalf of George Fife Angas in 1839 stretched from Collingrove to Angaston to Moculta and to Truro and abutted some of McBean’s pastoral lease lands. So much of the land around Truro was freehold land owned by George Fife Angas. The Hundred of Jellico (originally the Hundred of North Rhine before German names were changed in 1917) was declared in 1851 with surveying being conducted in 1854 and land being sold from 1855 onwards by the government. But Angas already owned much of the land from his Special Surveys. The government declared a road from Gawler to Blanchetown on the Murray River in the early 1850s. The creek and permanent water holes in Truro made it a favourite camping spot on this journey to the Murray.
Truro was laid out as a private town in 1850 by John Howard Angas who named the village after Truro in Cornwall. All allotments were soon taken up. Copper mining attracted Cornish miners to Wheal Barton mine in 1849 /1850 on the outskirts of town. This private town was also created by the Angas family and not surprisingly the main street of the former settlement of Barton is George Street after the family patriarch George Fife Angas. Like Burra some dugout houses were carved in the local creek bed at Barton but by 1852 the mine had been abandoned. Meantime the town of Truro had progressed with the first Post Office and a chapel being erected in 1851. Other major public structures followed. The Institute /Town Hall (1875 and 1882) and the state school (1878) were built on land donated by John Howard Angas for the early town. John Howard Angas also donated land for a Union chapel in 1850 which was duly built in 1851. It was later replaced or more likely incorporated into the current the Congregational Church in 1860. As John Howard Angas was a staunch Congregationalist the new 1860 church was a Congregational Church. Its style is similar to the original Congregational Church in Angaston which was also supported by John Howard Angas. The Congregational manse was built next door to the church in 1867 and a T section across the rear of the church was added in 1879. The original slate roof was replaced in 1959 and in 1977 this Congregational Church became a Uniting Church. At the eastern end of the Main Street is the first Council Chamber built in 1884 on land purchased from George Fife Angas’ estate. The town and district council was established in 1876. By the time of the 1883 census Truro had a population of 265. During World War One (1917) the railway line was finally extended from Nuriootpa to Truro and the sale yards used by the stock and station agents were located next to it. The wooden station building and all traces of the railway age have now disappeared.
John Howard Angas’ main properties - Mt Remarkable Estate, Hill River, Point Sturt etc.
Both George Fife and John Howard Angas were interested and active in pastoralism. George Fife ensured sheep and cattle were on the first fleet of ships he sent to the colony from England in 1836. More sheep were picked up at Cape Town. As Chairman of the SA Company Angas played a role in that Company having the largest flock in the colony by 1842 when it had around 20,000 sheep. But George Fife Angas was a banker and businessman more than pastoralist. However his son John Howard established himself quickly as a pastoralist and breeder of stud sheep and cattle wanting to improve herds and stock in the colony. Apart from Collingrove House on his Tarrawatta estate where he lived, he acquired in the central districts Kingsford near Gawler and Point Sturt on Lake Alexandrina. In 1856 he purchased Mt Remarkable run covering 50,000 acres freehold and 15,000 acres leasehold. By the late 1870s John Howard Angas had Tarrawatta with 14,100 acres, Hill River with 55,000 acres, Baldina with 8,300 acres, Belalie with 3,000 acres, Broadview with nearly 5,000 acres, Point Sturt with 3,700 acres and Kingsford with 3,000 acres. Beyond the settled districts he had Wirrealpa with 1,700 square miles, Whittata with 234 square miles, Netley with 145 square miles, Stuart Creek with 5,600 square miles, Finniss Springs with 578 square miles, Frome Downs with 970 square miles, Macumba with 200 square miles and he had a group of stations near the Northern Territory border that totalled 13,100 square miles. Angas was a serious pastoralist! In 1882 he sold the Mt Remarkable run to the Willowie Pastoral Company of which he was the major shareholder. Hill River near Clare was always described as the best property in SA and purchased by John Howard Angas in 1876 for £220,000. In 1912 most of the estate was broken up for closer settlement and the Hill River property was left with just four thousand acres which it still has. Members of the Angas family still reside on and operate Hill River. Angas ran Point Sturt as a Shorthorn and Hereford cattle stud and he ran Collingrove and Hill River as Merino sheep studs. After his death the properties were broken up and sold off as time went by. Only Hutton Vale which was part of Tarrawatta and Hill River remain in the hands of Angas descendants.
Angas family philanthropy and donations.
George Fife Angas was a keen businessman but also a staunch Baptist and philanthropist. He was very committed to education and Angas founded and supported the SA school Society which established the first school in SA. At the same time he funded four German missionaries to come to SA to work with Aboriginal people. Likewise he supported early churches and founded several Union chapels for use by any denomination. Whilst in the SA parliament he was a conservative and reactionary. For example he was opposed to railways, the immigration of Irish Catholic girls for domestic work but he was respected for his integrity. Towards the end of his life he was estimated to be donating at least £10,000 annually to charitable organisations. He was a significant philanthropist to many church organisations and charities in SA as well as the University of Adelaide. He retired from parliament in 1866 and his wife died in 1867 and he then concentrated on philanthropy until he died in 1879. The following are just a few of the known donations by George Fife Angas. He donated land and gave a large sum of money to build the original Town Hall in Angaston in 1860. He gave a block of land and a house for the Melrose Institute in 1871 etc. He financed the emigration of a new Baptist pastor to found the Flinders Street Baptist Church in 1861. Presumably he contributed to the building costs. He donated generously to St Peters Boys College and Prince Alfred College the only two high school in SA at the time. As noted above he donated land and funds to build the Angaston Baptist church in 1855 and land and £100 to build the Masonic Lodge in 1867. Although it was not direct philanthropy it is estimated that George Fife Angas contributed £40,000 to the creation and establishment of South Australia. He spent £20,000 to fund four ships to bring German settlers to the colony for a start. He actually saw the establishment of South Australia as one of his great philanthropic gestures.
John Howard Angas was also a philanthropist like his father but his focus was on education and health and disability and the Congregational Church. He was a staunch Congregationalist unlike his father who was a Baptist. In 1878 John Howard Angas gave £4,000 to the fledgling University of Adelaide to establish the Engineering Scholarship scheme followed by a £6,000 donation in 1884 to establish the Angas professorship of chemistry which is still funded by the Angas trust deed. He also donated £1,000 to the School of Mines on North Terrace in the 1890s. As noted above he worked and donated to the Childrens Hospital, the Home for the Deaf and Dumb, the Inebriates Home at Belair, and he funded and founded the Angas Missionary Training College in North Adelaide. His individual donations were generous and varied from education, missionary work, health and to the care of children but he also contributed greatly with charity work. He was President of the British and Foreign Bible Society in SA for many years; he was President of the British and Foreign Seaman’s Society; he was leader of the Bushman’s Club which became the Bush Missionary Society. He donated £500 to it for them to get a building in Gilbert Street and he laid its foundation stone in 1878. This building provided accommodation for men from the outback visiting Adelaide. In 1899 this society merged with the Salvation Army.
He is known to have donated to more than 100 English and German church buildings. Then like his father be began to concentrate on his philanthropy towards the end of his life. In 1887 he gave £2,000 to the SA Congregational Church to pay off its debts. He donated £1,000 to churches for Sunday School buildings. He became a regular and generous funder of the London Missionary Society. From 1871 onward he donated £500 annually but that sometimes increased to £1,000 per annum when wool prices were high. He made additional donations for missionary work in New Guinea. In 1902 he gave £10,000 for New Guinea missionary work and £1,000 for missionary work in the Congo. He also donated to the Hindmarsh Town Mission for the poor giving about £1,000 to it. He was a large and regular contributor to the Benevolent and Strangers Friend Society for 30 years. He continued his concerns for children with a £1,400 donation in 1897 for the Girls Brigade to build a new hall. He was a regular donor to the Salvation Army and he gave £1,000 for the establishment of Kalyra Consumptives Home at Belair. His concerns were well defined and helped many people across Adelaide and South Australia. In 1899 John Howard Angas also donated £2,500 for the Angas wing at the Home for Incurables Fullarton. Apart from the Children’s Hospital John Howard Angas was a great financial supporter of the Barnardo Houses for children in England and elsewhere. Barnardo house provided accommodation for orphans and destitute children before they were fostered or adopted. For 30 years he donated £200 annually to this British organisation. In 1884 he donated £1,600 and from 1887 he donated £2,000 annually. In 1891 he donated £5,600 and by the time of his death he had donated £44,216 to the Barnardo foundation. His donations were so appreciated that they named a house in Essex after John Howard Angas. The Angas Home in Barkingside Essex operated for around 100 years until demolished to make way for a Tesco supermarket!
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