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William Hill 1834 - 1916

William Hill of Potts Lane, in Warnambool, VIC Australia was born in 1834 in Armagh County, Northern Ireland United Kingdom to William Hill and Mary Mulligan Hill. He had siblings Alice Hill, Jane Hill, Ellen Hill, Maude Hill, Maude Hill, Alfred John Hill, Joseph Hill, and Wallace Hill. William Hill died at age 81 years old on March 14, 1916 in Warnambool, VIC Australia, and was buried in Mar in Warrnambool.
William Hill
Potts Lane, in Warnambool, VIC Australia
1834
Armagh County, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
March 14, 1916
Warnambool, VIC, Australia
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  • 1834

    Birthday

    1834
    Birthdate
    Armagh County, Northern Ireland United Kingdom
    Birthplace
  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Anglo-Irish
  • Professional Career

    Farmer and labourer
  • 03/14
    1916

    Death

    March 14, 1916
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Warnambool, VIC Australia
    Death location
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    Gravesite & Burial

    Mar
    Funeral date
    Warrnambool, VIC 3280, Australia
    Burial location
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In 1834, in the year that William Hill was born, on August 14th, the Poor Law Amendment Act was enacted in the United Kingdom. The Act stated that no able-bodied British man could receive assistance unless he entered a workhouse (a kind of poorhouse). The Act was intended to curb the cost of relief for the poor since workhouses were designed to be unpleasant. Many workhouses used the men as free labor and employed them in such tasks as breaking stones, crushing bones to produce fertilizer, or picking oakum - tarred fiber used between planks on ships -using a large metal nail known as a spike.
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In 1847, William was just 13 years old when on July 1st, the first official postage stamps were issued in the US (not in the world - that was the UK). They were a nickel and a dime and showed Ben Franklin and George Washington.
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