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Geoffrey Charles Wells 1884 - 1906

Geoffrey Charles Wells of Thorpdale Australia was born in 1884 to Annie Shorter Wells and James Dudley Wells. He had siblings Walter Evans Wells, Jessie Margaret Wells, George Alfred Wells, Olive Ruth Wells, Walter Evans Wells, Frank Dudley Wells, and Mary Caroline Nicholls. Geoffrey Wells died at age 22 years old in 1906 in Thorpdale.
Geoffrey Charles Wells
Thorpdale Australia
1884
1906
Thorpdale, Australia
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    1906
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    Thorpdale Australia
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    Geoffrey Charles Wells lived 50 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 22.
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In 1884, in the year that Geoffrey Charles Wells was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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In 1890, Geoffrey was only 6 years old when on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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