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William Ernest Shiells 1870 - 1947

William Ernest Shiells of Geelong Australia was born in 1870 in Trar to Thomas Shiells and Bridget Timmons Shiells. He had siblings Grace Shiells and Maud Janet Geale. He married Elinor "Janie" Roddan (Anderson) Shiells, and had a child Violet Maude Shiells. William Shiells died at age 77 years old in 1947 in Geelong.
William Ernest Shiells
Geelong Australia
1870
Trar, Australia
1947
Geelong, Australia
Male
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  • 1870

    Birthday

    1870
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    Trar Australia
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  • 1947

    Death

    1947
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Geelong Australia
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    William Ernest Shiells lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 77.
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In 1870, in the year that William Ernest Shiells was born, on June 26th, Christmas was declared an official federal holiday in the United States. By 1860, 14 states had declared Christmas a legal holiday but the practice of celebrating Christmas was a local - and religious - choice previously.
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In 1899, he was 29 years old when the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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