To my Edgar kinsman, John, from Maggie Tucker:
It is my pleasure to pass on a copy of the Edgar Newsletters for your Edgar website; enabling others to access & use the information, as appropriate for their personal use. The Newsletters came into my possession from the late Isabel Edwards*, of Casterton, Victoria. She & her mother had been members of the Society of Edgar Families & had, therefore received the newsletters as a course of their membership. We are grateful that in the midst of many clean-outs & sorting out of goods & chattels, a task that most households undertake from time to time, that these newsletters survived. When my husband & I visited her in 1984, she showed them to me & then asked if I would like them, as she felt she no longer had any use for them & in the giving of the Newsletters to me, she felt that their contents might be shared with other Edgar descendants one way or another. And so it was with a sense of responsibility that I humbly accepted them on behalf of other Edgar descendants, many of whom would not have had access to their contents; many more descendants might never even have known of their existence.
Over a period of time, I typed them into a Word document, as a back-up of the original paper copies. It is these documents which have now been uploaded to this website.
* Isabel Edwards was the great-granddaughter of James Edgar [born 1811] from his first marriage, to Isabella Scott.
Maggie is an Edgar descendant who currently is concentrating on the Hope side of her heritage which is available at http://stemmata.googlepages.com
I would like to place on record here my thanks and great appreciation for the generosity she has shown in making this valuable resource available to Edgar family researchers everywhere.
This site is a work in progress.
If you have comments or information, contact me (John Edgar) at archaeoaust@yahoo.com.au but note that the newsletters are historical documents and will not be altered. A page of errata is all that is offered. Some hard evidence corroborating a change request will be necessary as there is a lot of wishful thinking in family history making.
Sections of these documents are NOT an easy read. They are packed with dense family information on Edgars from Scotland, Ireland, England, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and a little from the US. They follow old genealogical forms such as numbering male children first in order of birth and then females in order irrespective of actual birth order of the two sexes. The language is 1930s cultural cringe Australian.
As far as I know, the promise (at the end of No.14) of a "history of the Edgars of Bangor, Co., Down, Ireland, with notes on other Irish Edgars and a full history of the Edgars, formerly of Gattonside, near Melrose, Berwickshire, Scotland" to appear in the "Next" issue was never realised. There appear to be no further newsletters beyond No. 14.
Details of my family from Moffat, Scotland, to Sydney, Australia, are available at http://edgars.in.australia.googlepages.com
This site was last updated on December 21, 2007
It was created using Google Page Creator, a free, experimental site construction program. It is easy to use but a little restricted in the "bells and whistles" department. If you have html skills you will be able to achieve much more.
How long it will remain free or even available, I do not know.