Location: 302 Angaston Road, Angaston, South Australia

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Cemetery name: Angaston Cemetery
Address: 302 Angaston Road, Angaston, South Australia
GPS Coordinates: -34.491942, 139.020352
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The First Angaston Cemetery was situated at 8 Hannay Crescent Angaston, South Australia, and was in use from 1847 to 1869. Some of the graves were moved to the new Angaston Cemetery, so there will be duplications of inscriptions between the two. The First Angaston Cemetery has it's own page at https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Angaston_First_Cemetery&public=1
The Angaston cemetery is situated on a portion of the 4 acres of land which was purchased from Johann Gottfried Hanisch on September 24, 1867 by twelve district citizens. The citizens who purchased it as a private concern were messrs. James Jepson, Charles Holmes, Charles Radford, John Hurst, David Tavender, Richard Wilson, William Short, James Harris, David Ward, HHB Pepperell, David Mutton and Sam Stockwell.
By 1903 only Charles Holmes was still alive. The cemetery land was purchased by the District Council of Angaston on April 15, 1911 with Holmes' consent. He was laid to rest in the cemetery on May 22, 1911. Alexander Wishart was appointed curator of the cemetery in May 1917.
The remains or the late George Fife Angas were conveyed from residence, Lindsay House, Angaston, to the family vault in Lindsay Park on the 20 May 1879. Then on the 23 August 1929 the graves / headstones of George Fife Angas, wife Rosetta, their daughter Mary Ann, son William Henry and sons-in-law James Johnson and John Hannay were moved to the Angaston Cemetery, Angaston Road.
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