William Angus, Sr. in Wyresdale
Abt 1695 - 1757 (~ 62 years)
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Name William Angus [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Suffix Sr. in Wyresdale Born Abt 1695 Scotland? 
Gender Male Name William Anghurst [6] Name Willm Anghurst [7] Residence Lancaster, Lancashire, England [8] Died Mar 1757 Overton, Wyresdale, Lancashire, England [3, 5] Buried 31 Mar 1757 St. Mary'S Overton, Lancashire, Eng. [3, 5] Person ID I43 Brown Genealogy Last Modified 19 Sep 2024
Father Ancestor Angus, b. UNKNOWN, d. UNKNOWN Relationship natural Family ID F8003 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Leah, b. Abt 1700, Wyresdale, Lancashire, England , d. UNKNOWN Married 13 Apr 1724 St. Mary, Lancaster, Lancashire, England [1, 2, 3] Children 1. William Angus, Jr. in Over Wyresdale, b. Abt 13 Aug 1732, Over Wyresdale, Lancashire, England , d. UNKNOWN [natural]2. Thomas Angus, Sr. in Quernmore, b. Abt 20 Nov 1737, Over Wyresdale, Lancashire, England , d. 19 Mar 1795, Caton, Lancashire, England (Age ~ 57 years) [natural]3. Margaret Angus, b. Abt 16 Mar 1734, Over Wyresdale, Lancashire, England , d. 1735, Over Wyresdale, Lancashire, England (Age ~ 0 years) [natural]4. Jane Angus, b. Abt 15 Nov 1724, Hawthornthwaite, Over Wyresdale, Lancaster, Lancashire, England , d. UNKNOWN [natural]5. Elizabeth Angus, b. Abt 9 Jul 1727, Over Wyresdale, Lancashire, England , d. Feb 1755, Chipping, Lancashire, England (Age ~ 27 years) [natural]6. John Angus, in Over Wyresdale, b. Abt 8 Feb 1729, Over Wyresdale, Lancashire, England , d. May 1756, Lancaster, Lancashire, England (Age ~ 27 years) [natural]Last Modified 19 Sep 2024 Family ID F8 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - William Angus/Anghurst represents one of the earliest known persons with the surname Angus in all of Lancashire and Western Yorkshire. William's marriage to Mary Leah indicates they were both from Wyresdale. Their children were all baptised in Over Wyresdale Chapelry. Their eldest daughter Jane's baptism specifies that the family resided at Hawthornthwaite in Over Wyresdale. The rest of the children's baptisms do not specify where in Wyresdale they resided. It is presumed that they continued to reside at Hawthornthwaite.
Hawthornthwaite in Over Wyresdale
Over-Wyresdale is a chapelry located in Wyresdale, the upper part of the Wyre Valley, about 13 km (8 mi.) southeast of the town of Lancaster. It is comprised of hill country, farmland and forests on the land of the former Forest of Lancaster, originally belonging to the Duke of Lancaster and latterly to the Crown.
Hawthornthwaite Farmhouse is part of the former Hawthornthwaite estate located about 1 km south of Christ Church Chapel in Over-Wyresdale on the south side of the Wyre River, and belonging for generations to the Hawthornthwaite family, who date back to pre-Norman times. Their name is Norse in origin and they claim to have Viking ancestry.
In most records, William's surname is recorded as "Anghurst", reflecting what appears to be a Scottish pronunciation.
No birth record has been found for William in Lancashire, nor anywhere in northern England. It is presumed that William was probably born in Scotland. Current DNA research suggests that William may have come from near Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland.
William would be the right age to have been a refugee from the nearby Battle of Preston in 1715. There is no person surnamed Angus listed among the prisoners taken at Preston. Highland soldiers who followed the Jacobite army down to Lancashire were given the right to desert without penalty at any time. (Fumey) It's also possible that William may have deserted on the way down to Preston.
William's daughter, Elizabeth (possibly his eldest surviving daughter), married Dr. Edward Robinson of Lancaster Caste, a surgeon. He came from a prominent local landed military family. He is believed to be descended from Major Edward Robinson, a local Roundhead commander in Cromwell's forces fighting nearby. Such a marriage suggests that William have had military connections. Could her marriage be the means by which the later Anguses moved from rural Wyresdale into the town of Lancastr and settled in Castle Ward? Further research is required to answer these questions.
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The Online Parish Clerk Project for Lancashire has transcribed William's surname for his marriage as "Hugus." The handwritten 'A' has been mistaken for an 'H' and the 'n' has been mistaken for a 'u.' However, given this mistranscription, and the fact that the later Wyresdale records show William's surname as Anghurst, there is a potential confound to our origin theory in that there is another local family named Hayhurst, which could be a mistranslation or corruption of Anghurst. However that family appears to maintain the spelling 'Hayhurst' into later generations suggesting that it is not a variant of Angus.
Noteworthy among possible births are the following:
1. William, born 21 MAR 1705 and bap 25 MAR 1705 in Culross, Fife, Scotland, son of William Angus and Margaret Hunter. Siblings b/b: Robert 12/20 JAN 1703, Margaret 1 MAY/8 JUN 1707, John, 17/22 APR 1711. This is noteworthy because one of William's descendants was baptized in Fife, so it is speculated that perhaps that is an indication of where the family may have originated.
2. William, son of George Angus, born 1695 in Fyvie, Aberdeen, whose sibling George's descendants are believed to have later moved to Lancashire. This will have to be left to future research to determine.
- William Angus/Anghurst represents one of the earliest known persons with the surname Angus in all of Lancashire and Western Yorkshire. William's marriage to Mary Leah indicates they were both from Wyresdale. Their children were all baptised in Over Wyresdale Chapelry. Their eldest daughter Jane's baptism specifies that the family resided at Hawthornthwaite in Over Wyresdale. The rest of the children's baptisms do not specify where in Wyresdale they resided. It is presumed that they continued to reside at Hawthornthwaite.
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Record for Wm Angus
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Record for William Anghurst
https://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2478&h=57739707&indiv=try - [S854] England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
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