Charles Angus

1767 - 1820


Biography

Liverpool merchant and slave-trader (with four voyages as co-owner), husband of Maria Angus nee McQuistin and father of Maria Taylor (nee Angus); Jane Ronald Crawford (nee Angus) and Thomas McQuistin Angus (each of whom q.v.). He was the accused in a sensational murder trial in Liverpool in 1808.


Sources

'McQuistin Genealogy', http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/McQuistinGen.htm [accessed 22/04/2015]. Note the year of death given in this source as 1829 appears to be wrong as Charles Angus was recorded as deceased in the slave register for St Faith's, 1823; Glenn Chandler, Burning poison: the murder that rocked Liverpool (Lea Valley Press, 2000).


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Maria McQuistin
Children
Jane Ronald (1801-), Maria Angus (1803-), Thomas McQuistin (1804-)

Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
1822 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Previous owner

Relationships (6)

Father → Son
Father → Daughter
Father → Daughter
Father-in-law → Son-in-law
Husband → Wife
Son-in-law → Father-in-law

Addresses (2)

Liverpool, Lancashire, Merseyside, North-west England, England
Tunberry or Turnberry Lodge, Ayrshire, Southern Scotland, Scotland