Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 1585
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001585
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney River
If death occured in a hospital or institution Cape Breton Hospital, Sydney River
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Thomson, Richard
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Glasgow, Scotland
9. DATE OF BIRTH 1 24, 1890
10. AGE in Years80 Months0 Days3 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Pattern maker
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14 years 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Richard Thomson
17. BIRTHPLACE Glasgow, Scotland
18. NAME of Mother
19. BIRTHPLACE
20. Signature of Informant James Lewis
address RR #3 Coxheath
Relationship to deceased None
21. Place of burial Blackett's Lake
Date of burial January 30, 1970
22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home, Sydney
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Cardiac failure due to arterio sclerotic cardiac disease
(b)
(c)
other Chronic brain syndrome
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