Encouragement for German emigrants : Map of South Australia |
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Title : | 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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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 : | Schubert, David A Kavel's people: their story of migration from Prussia to South Australia for the sake of their faith, and their initial settlement, told mainly from journals, letters, and other documents of the time Highgate, S. Aust.: H. Schubert, 1997 Randall, Eliza And the dog came too: being an account of a voyage from London to South Australia on the ship Templar in 1845 Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia, 2001 Parsons, Ronald Migrant ships for South Australia, 1836-1866 Gumeracha, S.A.: Gould Books, 1999 Haines, Robin Life and death in the age of sail: the passage to Australia Sydney, N.S.W.: University of New South Wales Press, 2003 |
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 |
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