Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 1584
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001584
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Steel Plant, Sydney
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Oconnell, James Peter
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Irish
7. Single, Married
single
8. BIRTHPLACE Sydney
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 10, 1913
10. AGE in Years56 Months9 Days9 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Crane Operator
12. Kind of industry Steel Plant
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Edward Patrick O'Connell
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Mary Rowlands
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant John O'Connell
address 39 ferry St., Sydney
Relationship to deceased brother
21. Place of burial Resurrection Cemetery, Sydney Forks
Date of burial Jan. 28, 1970
22. Undertaker T.W. Curry Limited, Sydney
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Expired suddenly while at his work in steel plant crane
(b) Evidently acute coronary occlusion
(c)
other
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