Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 2561
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002561
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Dawson, Mary Ellen
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax
9. DATE OF BIRTH 5 11, 1885
10. AGE in Years84 Months10 Days23 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession housewife
12. Kind of industry at home
13. Date last worked Jan. 1970 14. Total years 50
15. If married name of spouse the late Arthur B. Dawson
16. NAME of Father Charles Tulloch
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Elizabeth Carson
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Walter F. Tulloch FMC
address 1122 Robie St, Halifax
Relationship to deceased Brother
21. Place of burial Fairview Cemetery
Date of burial April 6, 1970
22. Undertaker Halifax Funeral Home Ltd.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Pneumonia septicemia
(b) breast cancer
(c) pyogenic rectal ulcers
other
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