Friend

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"

Listed here are all the surnames current in our family database as at 29 Feb 2008.

Dawn Stanford has been a wealth of information to the Friend line.

Her current surname interests are:

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.

Thomas Friend & Mary Piper (also Caroline Miller [?Kelly] & Elizabeth Rose Loseby

A Little Background History

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.