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Name	Egbert Thomas Sheaf
Born	18 January, 1869 Woolston, Hampshire, England
Died	25 July, 1948 (aged 79) Blackburn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (liver)
Cultural Heritage	English Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Passenger Ship *	Themistocles (1913) (unassisted immigrant)
Occupation or Descriptor *	photographer (general) (1913-1940) Victoria, Australia trade commissioner (1922-1925) Federal, Australia fruit grower (1925-1940) Victoria, Australia

* Dates are approximate

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