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Personal data Joan BROWN 

• She was born on 6th-11-1943 in 46 Cooke Street,Ormeau Road, Belfast.
• (Premature Birth) on November 6, 1943: Baby Joan born a little premature. Mum says Joan wasn't comforted and kept warm initially Dr and Midwife not being attentive..
• (History) April 1941 in Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland: Mum and Dad had married in Dublin on 14th April and had come up to Belfast to live. After a few months they moved to 46 Cooke Street where Joan was born. Joan was our little sister who,tragically, never experienced Life.
• She died on 7th-11-1943 in 46 Cooke Street,Ormeau Road, Belfast 7.

  JOAN First - born child of Robert & Esther Brown Last place of residence 46 Cooke St Age 9 Hours Sex Female Date of death 7 November 1943 Date of burial 8 November 1943 Cemetery City Cemetery - Glenalina Grave section Communal

• She is buried on November 8, 1943 in Belfast City Cemetery.

  LITTLE JOAN Born at Home ~ 46 Cooke Street. Date of Birth 6 November 1943
Date of Death 7 November 1943
Age 9 Hours  Sex Female
Date of Burial  8 November 1943
Belfast City Cemetery (Glenalina) Our sister  Joan, was born during the Seige of Leningrad
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• A child of Robert Lloyd BROWN and Esther DARLING

Household of Joan BROWN

Notes about Joan BROWN

Joan lived for One Day;premature,but would have survived had it not been Wartime.
LITTLE JOAN
Born at Home ~ 46 Cooke Street.
Date of Birth 6 November 1943
Date of Death 7 November 1943
Age 9 Hours Sex Female
Date of Burial 8 November 1943
Belfast City Cemetery (Glenalina)
Our sister Joan, was born during the Seige of Leningrad
She was born late on the 6th of November 1943,
a Saturday evening
And died nine hours later, on Sunday morning.
The next morning, Monday 8th, Dad carried her, in a prepared casket, up Cooke Street and crossed over the Ormeau Road.
Walking up McClure street he reached the gentle curve of Cromwell Road and walked across the Botanic Avenue.
Going up the Crescent he reached the Lisburn Poad, passing the Old Peoples’ Park, which was just across from where Dad had grown up – Sandy Row
A few 100 yards further he arrived at the City Hospital.
He went into the Hospital and Joan was taken by the attendant to a quiet room.
How long he stayed … I don’t know
Dad returned home … alone
Joan was later taken , with others, to a Burial Plot at the Glenalina Section of the City Cemetery.
How he felt carrying her little body … I never asked him.
When you are young ….Life is fun
 And you never consider, in any way, how your parents are feeling or had felt during a tragedy.

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