Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 1708
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001708
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Halifax Infirmary
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Murphy, Catherine Bertha
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Irish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Prince Edward Island
9. DATE OF BIRTH 9 28, 1899
10. AGE in Years70 Months4 Days20 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 1970 14. Total years Life
15. If married name of spouse George Murphy
16. NAME of Father John McIntyre
17. BIRTHPLACE Prince Edward Island
18. NAME of Mother Regina Gillis
19. BIRTHPLACE Prince Edward Island
20. Signature of Informant Mrs Dennis Cormier
address 7 Fenerty Road, Armdale, Halifax
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Melrose Roman Catholic Cemetery, New Brunswick
Date of burial February 20 1970
22. Undertaker J Albert Walker
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Carcinoma of the rectum
(b)
(c) Metastasis
other
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