Stanley used the Lenard spelling also on his WW1 registrations
Note that the name LENARD/LENNARD spelling only relates to the birth registration of Elizabeth Ellen's children and her own death.
I thought I had mentioned the WW1file
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BUT they are all
LEONARD on the 1914 electoral roll at Queenscliff.
Louise I have always found it difficult to research 'family stories'.
You wrote previously on the linked thread.....
Hi ,
Do you know much about Ellen Ireland - Leonard. She lived in Preston, Brunswick, Northcote. She died in 1935 approx in melbourne. Is this fitting in with you? A police man came to see Stanleys wife and ask her to pay for the funeral but she did'nt have the money. Ellen apparently worked on wealthy properties in the western district. The Bailleau's and others. She took out shares in the Warrnambool woollen mill which she said she would give my mother when she died. Mum was 13 at the time of her death. Ellen was destitute by then. Mum & I think it was really sad.
Regards Louise
Just spoke to my mother. She remembers Ellen- Grandma Leonard taking her to Albury to visit an Aunty. They travelled by train. Mum was about 5/6
When Ellen Leonard died (inhospital) a police man came to ask Stanleys wife if she would pay for the funeral and arrange the service. Grandma Eva Leonard refused she had 2 daughters to bring up and she had to work as a housekeeper. She did'nt have enough money. My mother remembers the police man. Stanley won a rifle medal at the Preston Rifle Club in 1908. Mum has the medal a gold inscribed one.
Elizabeth Ellen Leonard is listed in the Census 1912/1913 as living in Queenscliff. with Eva.
Elizabeth Lavinia Leonard was born in 1913 and lived with them there also.
He in listed as a fitter on their marriage certificate 1911. As a sargeant major on his return from the war No. 2518, 3rd Field Company Engineers, confessed to desertion from the Royal Australian Engineers No. 1769 4th Rifles, 3rd battalion. He returned from overseas in 1915 and reenlisted in the 7th Rifle, 8th btn - private.Then transferred to the Field Com. Engineers.
He returned from the war in 1919 aboard the "Pakeha" Lived in Albert park with my grandmother and May Montgomery who both ran a very successful pie shop in Victoria st and Stanley as sick and stayed upstairs. he drank and did'nt work. Died in 1924.
On the marriage certificate he lists George Leonard and Ellen Ireland as parents.
I can sort out some of this.
The war record is my Stanley. He had 3 children Noel who died at 6 mths, Elizabeth who is my aunt and she died a few years ago. My mother Joan Caroline. Stanley was married in 1911 to Evangeline Montgomery, he was stationed on Swan island off Queenscliff where my grandmother and his mother lived then. His mothers name Elizabeth Ellen I have since found on the census. She lived in Preston , Brunswick, Coburg, Stanley died in Albert park in 1924 of gas poisoning.
So perhaps we can all attempt sort this family story out as much of it so far has been found to be incorrect.
http://www.themillwarrnambool.com.au/history.htmlFor most of the 20th century the story of the mill is a story of growth, beginning in
1908 when Marcus Saltau and Peter John McGennan convinced the Warrnambool Chamber of Commerce to invest in secondary industry with local capital. A public meeting in September 1908 agreed to raise £40,000, electing Saltau chairman of directors, a post he held for 34 years.
Another year more, the new mill was officially opened on 14 November
1910 by Marcus Saltau as company chairman and town mayor.
The Australian
BAILLIEU [not BAILLEAU] family started their lives in Victoria at Queenscliff in the 1850's where the father James was a lighthouse keeper and built the Baillieu Hotel [later re-named the Ozone Hotel] One of their sons George, was noted as a hotelier at Queenscliff on the 1903 and later electoral rolls. The rest of this large family had by this time long moved to Melbourne and the rest as they say, is history. However George defaulted on three mortgage payments and lost the hotel but stayed on as manager. Perhaps Ellen worked for George and wife Agnes at the Queenscliff hotel. The move into pastoral properties in the western district appeared to be 1948 with the purchase of Yarram Park.
The hotel today.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01f7m/So where did Ellen live from 1889 when she was at Albury until 1913 at Queenscliff?
Was this domestic employment at Rutherglen?
1922, 1924
LENARD Elizabeth Ellen Norong Park, Rutherglen HD
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