Amos Anglas

c1829-1911

Amos Angliss was baptised on the 7^th June 1829, in Tadley, Hampshire, the son of Amos and Sarah Angles (nee Marsh) who were married on the 6^th November 1820, in Tadley.

His father Amos was baptised on the 9^th March 1800, in Tadley, Hampshire, the son of Edward Angliss. Edward Angles married Mary New on the 23^rd February 1789, in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire. Amos Angles died aged 38, in 1838. He was buried on the 30^th March, in Tadley, as Amos Anglais aged 39.

According to census records his mother Sarah was born c1801 in Tadley. She was the daughter of Richard Marsh (as recorded on the1939 marriage certificate). Sarah remarried on the 17^th March 1839, in Tadley. Her 2^nd husband was John West aged 24, a Broom Maker. John and Sarah had two daughters, Anne born 1840, baptised 7^th June and Elizabeth, baptised 23^rd February 1845, in Tadley.

Amos and Sarah also had the following children baptised in Tadley:

Louisa Angles, 12^th January 1823

Richard Angliss, 13^th March 1825

Hannah Angliss, 7^th October 1827 (died ages 8 months, buried 16^th April 1828, in Tadley)

William Anglis, 20^th March 1832 (died aged 10, buried 25^th September 1842, in Tadley)

Mary Anne Anglais, 18^th January 1835

Hannah Anglais, 19^th November 1837

The 1841 census records Amos Angles (12), living in Tadley Common, Berkshire, with his mother Sarah West (40), his step-father John West (25), his half-sister, Ann West (1) and his brothers, Richard Angles (15) and William Angles (9).

Amos’ step-father John West died aged 36, in 1851.

The 1851 census records Amos Anglis (22), an Agricultural Labourer, living in Silchester Side, Tadley, with his widowed mother Sarah West (51), a Domestic, his brother Richard (26), an Agricultural Labourer and his half-sisters, Ann (11) and Elizabeth West (6).

In 1861 Amos Anglis (31), an Agricultural Labourer was recorded living in Broad Halfpenny, Tadley, with his mother Sarah West (60), his brother Richard (34) and his half-sister Elizabeth West (16)

The 1871 census records Amos Angles (41), an Agricultural Labourer, living in Tadley with his mother Sarah West (70) and his brother Richard Angles (46), an Agricultural Labourer.

Sarah West died aged 77, she was buried on the 17^th March 1876, in Tadley.

The 1881 census records Amos Angles (41), as a Besom Broom Maker, (making brooms consisting of a bundle of twigs (often birch) tied around a stick) living in Long Lane, Chieveley, Berkshire.

The 1891 census also records Amos Anglos (60), as a Besom Broom Maker, living in Long Lane, Chieveley (christian name mistakenly recorded as Amor on ancestry)

By 1901 Amos Angles (70) was living in Burghclere, Hampshire. He was still working as a Besom Broom Maker.

Amos Anglas died aged 82, the Newbury Workhouse, in 1911. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 17^th January

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