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