A Quick Guide to our History

This page is a 'Quick Guide' to some pretty interesting and amazing stories which are contained within the covers or on the platform of this e-Book. There's some stuff that's hidden under obscure sections and headers that could easily be overlooked, which would be a tragedy for you, the reader of our family's history, to miss.

LINK to SS Atalanta Diary the diary of a 15 year old boy who was a fellow passenger with the Hope family on their voyage to Australia. An incredible insight into what the voyage was like, through his eyes, of course!

LINK to Neighbour MacKinnon for:

• Wax Matches v Safety Matches
• 1890 Bank Crash
• Mail from Home
• Stage Coaches
• William Hope: The Entertainer and Entertainment
• The Gold Rush
• Poisoning of rabbits
• Captain Foster Fyans
• The Ghost Tree
• Pom-Pom

LINK to Neighbour Minogue for:

• Cousins, Neighbours and Living in the Bush - lots of fun and happy stories dotted throughout, along with moments of tragedy
• Alice Hope's (nee Armstrong) Biscuit Recipe

LINK to Early Scotland for:

• Scottish Naming Patterns
• Scottish Census

LINK to DeGrey Letters for:

• Interesting accounts of life in the Ourback for this pioneering family of Edgars, who were amongst the first white settlers in North-West Western Australia during the period of 1877-1890.

Society of Edgar Families Newsletters from the early 1900s:

• Newsletters from 1937 until mid-way through WWII (1941/42)

LINK to Home Page