Eileen Olive Brown was born at Yarrawonga, Victoria, in 1912, the fourth child and second daughter born to Jack and Charlotte Brown.
She was most likely named after her father’s sister, Eileen Brown, who had died in 1909 at the young age of sixteen. Poor baby Eileen also wasn’t destined for a long life....on August 2nd, 1914, at Bundalong, she died of pneumonia and heart failure aged only two years.
She had contracted pneumonia in late July, and had been seen by Dr. J.P. Hogan on July 31, but did not respond to treatment and died two days later.
Her father, J.G Brown, labourer of Bundalong, registered his daughter’s death on August 3, the day that she was buried in the Bundalong Cemetery. E. Finnemore was the witness recorded on Eileen’s death certificate.
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