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Joseph Edward ‘Eddy’ Brown, also known as Joseph Edward Browne (1900-1971) wireworker and trade union leader
Birth: 9 May 1900 in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, son of Irish-born parents Henry Brown (1859-1919), a wood and coal merchant from Dublin, and his first wife Honora Teresa ‘Nora’, née Conroy (1860-1907), born in Kilmeany, Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, Ireland. Marriage: 7 April 1934 at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, Randwick, to native-born Jean Schwartz (1911-1998). They divorced in May 1945. Death: May have been the Edward Joseph Browne, cleaner, who died of a heart attack on 12 December 1971 at Lidcombe hospital, Sydney, and was buried in the Anglican cemetery, Field of Mars, though his religion was said to have been Catholic.
Sources
Robert Murray & Kate White, The Ironworkers, A history of the Federated Iron-workers' Association of Australia (Sydney, c1982); Hall Greenland, Red Hot: The Life & Times of Nick Origlass 1908–1996 (Sydney, 1998).
'Brown, Joseph Edward (Eddy) (1900–1971)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/brown-joseph-edward-eddy-32962/text41069, accessed 1 September 2024.
9 May,
1900
Darlinghurst, Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
12 December,
1971
(aged 71)
Lidcombe, Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
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