Elswick, Westgate Hill Cemetery, grave of Caleb Angas

HER Number:
13223

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Elswick, Westgate Hill Cemetery, grave of Caleb Angas

Place:
Elswick

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Grave Marker

Site Type: Specific:
Gravestone

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Caleb Angas (1742-1831) was a coach maker and industrialist. He studied coach and carriage manufacture in London. In 1780 he opened a business in the Bigg Market. He imported mahogany and other timber from British Honduras on his own ships. The business became the largest of its kind outside London. His youngest son, George, emigrated to Australia and had a town named after him (Angaston). Caleb Angus also owned a copperas factory in the Lower Ouseburn which made sulphuric acid for the soap and glass industries. His grave monument has a square urn on top of it.

Easting:
2373

Northing:
6419

Grid Reference:
NZ23736419

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Alan Morgan, 2004, Beyond the Grave - Exploring Newcastle's Burial Grounds, pages 109-110