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Joan Young
Acting
01 Feb 1903
† 10 Oct 1984
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Biography
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 1 February 1900 (and, purportedly, relocated three weeks later), Young was the daughter of music hall performers Nellie Blanche C. (née Parker) and Charles Alfred Romaine Wragg, known professionally as Charles Pastor. Speaking with reporter Beverly Howells almost eight decades later, Young acknowledged that, given her parents' continued performing, it was "really my grandmother who provided any motherly care I received as a child." She was educated at convents in B...
Also Known As
Joan Cecilia Frances Wragge

























