
Cockrem 4 Owen Angel [1] was born at Totnes, Devon, about 1821. He married Mary Ann Brimacombe at Exeter in 1843 and they had a daughter and three sons. Their daughter Marian Angel (1844-1883) was the only child to survive to adulthood, and she married a land surveyor George Heath (1840-1905), and lived at Bedford Circus, near Exeter. Originally Owen Angel started working in Exeter in the early 1840s as an engraver and a printer and became a lithographer in the mid-1840s. The 1851 census shows him living at 94 Fore Street, and working as a lithographer employing 3 men and 6 apprentices; one of these apprentices was George Palmer who l ithographed the facsimile of the Norden map of Exeter in Oliver's History of Exeter (1861). By January 1855 Angel had added photography to his repertoire, advertising " daily photographic portraits " in the Trewman's Exeter Flying Post , and listed additional premises at 1 Market Street. Later the same year 5...