Eddie Brown (Australian footballer)

Eddie Brown
Eddie Brown
Personal information
Full name	Edward Brown
Date of birth	10 October 1877
Date of death	29 November 1934 (aged 57)
Place of death	Healesville, Victoria
Original team(s)	Caulfield
Playing career1
Years	Club
1898	South Melbourne
	1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1898.
	Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Edward Brown (10 October 1877 – 29 November 1934) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[1]

Family

The son of William Brown, and Deborah Brown, née Riley, Edward Brown was born at Healesville, Victoria on 10 October 1877.

He married Rose Burrage (1878-1933) in 1912.^[2]^[3] They had two daughters, Mavis (b.1915) and Jessie (b.1920).

He played in five matches for South Melbourne in the first five home-and-away games of the 1898 season.

He died at his residence in Healesville, Victoria on 29 November 1934.^[4]^[5]^[6]

^ Holmesby & Main (2014), p. 99.
^ Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriages Registration no.9002/1912.
^ Deaths: Brown, The Argus, (Friday, 18 August 1933), p.1.
^ Deaths: Brown, The Age, (Friday, 30 November 1934), p. 1.
^ Funeral Notices: Brown, The Age, (Friday, 30 November 1934), p. 1.
^ Judicial and Law Notices, The Argus, (Wednesday, 9 January 1935), p. 17: relating to "the Estate of Edward Brown, late of "Holmwood", Healesville, in the State or Victoria, guest house proprietor, formerly gardener, deceased, who died on the twelfth (sic) day of November 1934 ..."

Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.

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