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Helen Fortune death at New Waterford, Cape Breton County on January 11, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 1143

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 001143

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town New Waterford

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Fortune, Helen

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Irish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA

9. DATE OF BIRTH 7  29, 1889

10. AGE in  Years80  Months5  Days13 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession at home

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Jerome Fortune

16. NAME of Father Daniel Finlayson

17. BIRTHPLACE

18. NAME of Mother Margaret Dunovan

19. BIRTHPLACE

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Hugh Gillis

      address 9th Street, New Waterford

      Relationship to deceased daughter

21. Place of burial Mt. Carmel Cemetery, New Waterford

      Date of burial 14 Jan 1970

22. Undertaker V. J. McGillivray Funeral Homes Ltd.

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) cerebral haemorrhage

(b)

(c)

other

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