Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 2870
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002870
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution R. C. MacGillivray Guest Home
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Gillis, Michael
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
single
8. BIRTHPLACE Cape Breton
9. DATE OF BIRTH 9 18, 1883
10. AGE in Years86 Months6 Days23 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Clergyman
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Joseph Gillis
17. BIRTHPLACE Soldiers Cove
18. NAME of Mother Catherine Campbell
19. BIRTHPLACE Hay Cove
20. Signature of Informant Sister Superior
address R. C. MacGillivray Guest Home
Relationship to deceased None
21. Place of burial St. Andrew's Cemetery, Boisdale
Date of burial 13 April 1970
22. Undertaker T. W. Curry, Limited, Sydney
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Leukemia (Lymphoid)
(b) Chronic degenerative myocarditis with angina
(c)
other
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