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William Stephen Melanson death at Digby, Digby County on February 11, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 1616

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 001616

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Digby If in City or Town Digby
If death occured in a hospital or institution Digby General Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Melanson, William Stephen

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

French

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Ashmore

9. DATE OF BIRTH 2  1, 1912

10. AGE in  Years58  Months  Days10 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Labourer

12. Kind of industry Labouring

13. Date last worked 1969       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Lillian Baker

16. NAME of Father Frederick Melanson

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Ida  Smith

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Lillian Melanson

      address Gulliver's Cove

      Relationship to deceased Wife

21. Place of burial Rossway

      Date of burial 14 February 1970

22. Undertaker Jaynes Funeral Home, Digby

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Septicemia

(b) Abscess

(c) Adenocarcinoma of Bowel

other

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