This book is dedicated to the Friend Family and to the memory of Col and Alice Friend.
Memories:
Col was a special man and even to this day the boys both remember him for teaching them to shake hands with the standard "How do you do!".
I remember a time when Col was in hospital in Wagga for his 'angina' and he told me to stop crossing my legs or I would end up like him... mmm I do wish I had have listened to him that one, because my legs give me grief these days. Ah, those wise old timers that we never listen to when we are younger.

James FRIEND b. 1872, Coolac, NSW, Aus
Henry William LENARD & Mary Jane BRETT
Just because I felt sorry for dear Alice being left out so I decided to put this one up in her honour.
Please note this is NOT confirmed lineage just what I've found cruising the genealogy sites, if you are related please feel free to get in touch and share details for my sons' heritage.
I had originally thought that the Mary Jane BRETT here was part of the family that arrived that immigrated to Australia from England in 1857 on "Plantagenet"
From contact with a lady named Tina who is a descendant of that Brett family (see comment below), it has been proven this is not case as the Mary Jane from that family was born and died in 1863. I now believe that Mary Jane Brett is the daughter of James and Mary and she died in 1931 at Redfern, in the 1930 Electoral Roll she was living at Strathfield with her son Clifford Lawrence and his wife Margaret Ivy.
[559/1931 LENARD MARY J JAMES MARY REDFERN ]
Descendants of James LENARD
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1-James LENARD
+Bridget
...2-Henry William LENARD d. 1928, Redfern, NSW, Aus
+Mary Jane BRETT b. ? d. 1931, Redfern, NSW, Aus
......3-Emanuel Henry LENARD b. 1883, Canterbury, NSW, Aus d. 1958, Parramatta, NSW, Aus
+Mary J Curran d. ? 1931, Redfern, NSW, Aus
......3-Alfred J S LENARD b. 1884, Canterbury, NSW, Aus
+Henrietta Dorothea d. 1944, Redfern, NSW, Aus
.........4-Gladys I LENARD d. 1912, Burwood, NSW, Aus
.........4-Clifford H LENARD d. 1913, Sydney, NSW, Aus
.........4-Thelma C LENARD d. 1915, Burwood, NSW, Aus
.........4-Raymond K LENARD d. 1926, Redfern, NSW, Aus
.........4-Joan Fay LENARD d. 1937, Sydney, NSW, Aus
......3-Albert Victor LENARD b. 1886, Burwood, NSW, Aus, d. 1955, Burwood, NSW, Aus
+Alice Maude STONE d. 1970, Campsie, NSW, Aus
.........4-Muriel J W LENARD d. 1918, Burwood, NSW, Aus
.........4-Edna M LENARD d. 1935, Burwood, NSW, Aus
......3-Priscilla M LENARD b. 1890, Burwood, NSW, Aus
......3-Clifford Laurence LENARD b. 1893, Burwood, NSW, Aus d. 1955, Burwood, NSW, Aus
+Margaret Ivy EWIN
......3-Herbert Darcy LENARD b. 1896, Burwood, NSW, Aus d.
+Aileen M BROWN
......3-Percival Federal LENARD b. 1902, Burwood, NSW, Aus, d. 1938, Newtown, NSW, Aus
+Alice Lillian FOWLER b. 1902, Bristol, England, d. 1991, Bankstown, NSW, Aus
.........4-Alice Mary LENARD b. 1920, Burwood, NSW, Aus, d. 1994, Tumut, Nsw, Aus
+Colin Frederick FRIEND b. 1918, Cootamundra, NSW, Aus, d. 1991, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Aus
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............5-Garry Bruce FRIEND b. 1951, d. 2002, Lake Illawarra, NSW, Aus
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.........4-Phyllis May LENARD
+Living
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.........4-Percy Victor LENARD b. 1941, bur. 2004, Young, NSW, Aus
+Living
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.........4-Joan LENARD d. 1982
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Thomas Friend & Mary Piper (also Caroline Miller [?Kelly] & Elizabeth Rose Loseby
This here is my sons paternal family of which I have not done a lot of research, as yet! Although I will be starting work on this tree next year so if you have a connection in the mean time please contact us, we would love to hear from you.
I would like to sincerely thank the Friend family for the photo's of their parents, & grandfather.
| *3rd Wife of Thomas FRIEND: .. +Elizabeth Rose LOSEBY ......... 2 Charlotte E FRIEND 1869 - 1880 ......... 2 Richard Joseph FRIEND 1871 - ......... 2 Sarah Ann FRIEND 1873 - ......... 2 Johanna Ester FRIEND 1875 - ......... 2 Charles Robert FRIEND 1877 - ......... 2 James Edward FRIEND 1880 - 1880 |
If you are researching the Friend/Loseby branch a great website for you is Steve Farmer's "Farmer Family Website" www.farmergroup.com |

This branch belongs to my sons family
Friend Forum
Surnames ~ Apps, Baldwin, Brett, Carther, Fowler, Friend, Funnell, Holgate, Lenard, Payne, Piper, Ross, Rossiter, Starr, Tyce, Wilson