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News Letter Number Fourteen

Society of Edgar Families

Melbourne, Australia

The first volume of the News Letters is completed with the publication of the second part of the Index Nominum and our members will now be able to insert all fourteen issues in the Spring-back binder as suggested previously.

Will all whose subscriptions are due, or overdue, kindly forward them to the Hon Secretary, Society of Edgar Families, Box 2630X, GPO, Melbourne as soon as possible as our financial year is soon to close? Reminder notices have been mailed to those concerned.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The fifth Annual General Meeting is to take place in March, The date will be advised later.

EXHIBITION AND WAR COMFORTS FUND

An exhibition of items illustrating the history of the Edgar Families was a feature of an evening arranged on 27 November last by the War Comforts Committee. There was a record attendance of members and their friends and, as a result about ten pounds was raised for the Society’s Comfort fund. Among the exhibits of Edgar interest, by courtesy of the Genealogical Society of Victoria displayed in that Society’s Library, were photographs of Wedderlie, Keithock, Peffermyl, Pine Hills homestead and Edgar monuments in New Jersy, USA. A collection of letters relating to the Keithock Edgars attachment to the Royal Stuart Cause were also on view and there were several books containing Edgar references. Members also saw part of the Society’s record collections, pedigree and press-cutting books, etc.

The War Comforts Committee will meet this month to arrange for the dispatch of further parcels to our menfolk serving overseas. Donations may still be made to assist the Committee in its work.

EDGARS IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND

The next issue of our News Letter will contain 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.

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