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Encouragement for German emigrants : Map of South Australia
Title : Encouragement for German emigrants : Map of South Australia Encouragement for German emigrants : Map of South Australia
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Creator : Hunckel, G.
Source : C 278
Date of creation : 1843
Additional Creator : Hunckel, G
Format : Map
Contributor : State Library catalogue
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Copyright : This item is reproduced courtesy of Mr Colin Angas. It may be printed or saved for research or study. Use for any other purpose requires written permission from Mr Colin Angas and the State Library of South Australia. To request approval, complete the Permission to publish form.
Description :

This lithographed map of part of South Australia shows the surveyed portions of South Australia to that time, including New Silesia (now Barossa Valley) and Angas Park. There is an attractive vignette of Adelaide, showing North Terrace and the adjacent parklands. The pencilled notes are presumed to be by George Fife Angas. These notes provide some detail of early Adelaide: 1660 houses chiefly of brick and stone, 16 flour mills, 47 schools, 37 churches and chapels and the number of criminal convictions in the young colony.


Angas himself migrated to to South Australia in 1851, and established a home at Angaston in the Barossa Valley.

He was a promoter of the new colony of South Australia and with a number of business colleagues formed the South Australian Company and bought land which enabled the colony to come into being. Angas was active in recruiting immigrants: he was instrumental in persuading a large group of German Lutherans to migrate and advanced money to enable this. Many of these migrants settled on Angas' own land in the colony, including in New Silesia and at Angas Park.

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Related names :

Angas, George Fife, 1789-1879

Coverage year : 1843
Period : 1836-1851
Place : South Australia
Region : Adelaide city
Further reading :
Internet links :

History Trust of South Australia: Migration Museum. Immigration and settlement of South Australia

Atlas of South Australia: the course of settlement

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition: Search for George Fife Angas

State Library of South Australia, General Information Factsheets Online: Shipping and passenger records

State Library of South Australia, General Information Factsheets Online: Germans in South Australia

State Library of South Australia, General Information Factsheets Online: South Australian Company

Exhibitions and events :

State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing exhibitions. Wooden Walls and Iron Sides August 2004-


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