It has been claimed that George and Harriet Postans named Hope Valley.
Angel came to work for them after leaving the New Norcia Mission and married Harriet's daughter Mary Greene from a previous marriage.

Mon 11 Nov 2013

Lets see if i get this right de san miguel was my great great great grandfather:)

Tue 19 Nov 2013

he is related to the Tonkin , king ,gliddon,postans and smith familys that im aware of

Sun 8 Dec 2013

This is a photograph of my great grandma (the last woman in the middle row on the right side). She is Angel's granddaughter.

Tue 17 Feb 2015

Angel de San Miguel is my g-g grandfather too. The little boy, Herbert, on Elizabeth's lap in the posted Taylor family portrait was my pop :)

Tue 14 Apr 2015

Angel de san Miguel was my great grandfather. His daughter Elizabeth was my grandmother and her son Herbert was my father.

Thu 23 Apr 2015

My grandfather is in the back row his name was Arthur Leslie Taylor born in 1903. His mother was Elizabeth De San Miguel and his father was George Taylor. Arthur was the 2nd eldest of their children. My grandfathers parents were 2nd cousins, they were descended from the Maydwells and Lewington families. Angel De San Miguel was Elizabeth's father. Angel was not a Spainard he was from the Basque Region of Spain and came from a city called Vittoria.

Mon 6 Jul 2015

Angelo was born in Vitoria, the Basque Province of Alava, Spain and was baptised on the church steps of the Parochial Church of San Miguel the archangel of the city of Vitoria at 12 noon the day before 29th February. His parents were not known. He left in December 1868 in the sailing ship “Robert Morrison”, with a party of thirty one monks, led by Bishop Salvado travelling to New Norcia mission.
He decided to leave the monastery and walked to Perth.
Angel worked for George and Harriet Postans, where he first met Mary. He proposed and was accepted. when he was granted land on the Old Coast Highway, but George Postans would not allow Mary to go so far out into the wilderness, so Angel let the block go. George Postans was granted land in Cockburn, he was the first settler and named it Hope Valley. Angel was the second one to be granted land there. He and Mary married in 1876.

Mary and Angel raised 13 of 14 children.

One of their daughters, Theresa, was my grandmother.

Thu 22 Oct 2015

Hi I'm Hayley I am actually related to you angel was my great great great great great grand father my mum is going to show me a few books about this family so I'll get back to you guys if you can send the link to us and yeah bye

Mon 9 Nov 2015

Mary was stepdaughter of George Postans

Angel was named after the orphanage he came from in Vittoria Spain. It is not his parents given name.

He was allegedly an illegitimate child, highly rumoured that of a Spanish aristocrat.
But the rumour is believed to be false.

Fri 4 Dec 2015

Harriet nee (Green) Postans remarried George.
Angel De San Miguel married Mary Green, from Victoria I believe. Marys father died, we think, from lung cancer.

Fri 22 Jul 2016

Hi

Angel is also my great grandfather. His daughter Bertha Mary was my grandmother. She married William Back who died before I was born. They had 9 sons whose descendants live all around WA

Tue 26 Jul 2016

Hi all, Betha Mary was also my Grandmother , there are 2 surviving of the 9 sons
I am in Vitoria-Gastiez now & am going to the Church of Inglesia de San Miguel Archangel tomorrow , legend in our family has Angel being left at the door of the church & the Benedictine monks raising him

Mon 19 Sep 2016

Those that said Angel wasn't a Spaniard are wrong... I did a DNA test & got results of being Iberian Peninsula descent... Angel is my 3rd Great Grandfather

Mon 3 Oct 2016

My great grandad and father of Charles de San Miguel my father is youngest of 9 seven brothers two sisters

Wed 4 Jan 2017

Angel would be my Great-Great Grandfather if I'm not mistaken (which I probably am, genealogy is hard). Very cool to see so many of his descendants congregating here!

Fri 20 Jan 2017

Theresa is my grandmother

Tue 7 Feb 2017

Angel was my great grandfather. His daughter Elizabeth was my grandmother and her youngest child Herbert was my father. In 2 years time (2019) it will be 150 years since Angel arrived in Australia - is any sort of reunion being held in WA - I would like to attend. Contact me at jtaylor45 @iprimus.com.au

Thu 30 Mar 2017

Hi
Bertha is my great-grandmother, Angel my great great grandfather. I live in London at the moment and would like to visit Vitoria in July can the person who went in September (who must be one of my mums cousins) get in contact please, would love to chat. Michellekarenpark@gmail.com

Thu 18 May 2017

How interesting! I am Angel's great great great grand-daughter. Elizabeth's son George Taylor was my great grandfather :o)
Email cool-class@hotmail.com if anyone is keen to connect with extended family

Thu 11 Jan 2018

Mary was born to Harriet and Edwin Green, Edwin was a whaler and drowned (Mary a baby).
Harriet Green (nee Lewington) married George Samuel Postans in 1858 and he adopted Mary. Mary always went by surname of Postans. Angel got work from (George who named Hope Valley) and then married Mary and settled in Hope Valley (their house is still standing in 2019).

Sun 24 Mar 2019

Elizabeth De san Miguel was my great grandmother she married George Taylor. Their son Arthur was my grandfather. Elizabeth was the daughter of Mary and Angel De San Miguel

Tue 13 Aug 2019

Look at the book " Kwinnana Third Time Lucky" gives all the familys who lived in the Hope Valley area (now called Postans)

Sat 5 Oct 2019

"Unsubstantiated" reports are saying that Harriet Postans (mother's mother), nee Green, is a descendant of Sussannah Maydwell, a Tasmanian native who gave birth to Sussana Maydwell in a cave in Tasmania.
Apparently Sussanah's daughter (Sussana) managed to escape Tasmania as a native child under disguise as a white person.

Allegedly, there is no boat records for Sussanah Maydwell. Only a court record.

I guess we need DNA tests, but Im not confident.

Cool story bro. 46 indigenous survived Tasmania. The Last of the Mahicans.

Thu 30 Jan 2020

Photo of my great grandparents Elizabeth de San Miguel and George Taylor. Elizabeth’s father was Angel and her mother was Mary.

Wed 4 Mar 2020

re abovecomment dated 30 Jan 2020. I have a family tree headed "the Taylors of Toodyay and Guilford" which shows Robert Maydwell and Susannah as having a daughter Susannah who was born in London in 1816 and who married William Lewington in 1832 and they had a daughter Harriet born 01.05.1835 who married Edwin Green and later George Postans. The Maydwells arrived in WA aboard the "Calista" on 05.08.1829. That certainly would put paid to any suggestion about Susannah being a Tasmanian aboriginal.

Sun 8 Mar 2020

Who was Edwin/Edward Green???

There is no official record of Edwin Green. It is alleged he is a whaler, but I'm cautious of this because he has a couple of names.

Ironically, our family has a couple of Greens either side being mindful also, the Greens intertwined with Postans over generations, probably due to the lack of people int he region.

Sat 21 Mar 2020

I can't find records of Edward Green's arrival or funeral record.

"Edward Green, charged with assaulting W. Lewington
; fined 20s. and expenses."
"Inquirer (Perth, WA : 1840 - 1855) Wednesday 7 April 1852 p 3 Article"

Wed 13 May 2020

An excerpt about the Calista.

The ship was eventually wrecked off the coast of Sierra Leone.

Fri 2 Oct 2020