Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 3139
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003139
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Middle Musquodobit
If death occured in a hospital or institution Musquodobit Valley Memorial Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Murchy, Winfield Artz
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 3 16, 1885
10. AGE in Years85 Months1 Days5 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Locomotive Engineer
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 1955 14. Total years Life
15. If married name of spouse Deceased
16. NAME of Father Alexander Murchy
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Mary Jane Cole
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Douglas Haig Murchie
address Troy, New York
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial Elderbank, Nova Scoti
Date of burial 24 April 1970
22. Undertaker Ettinger Funeral Service Ltd.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Cancer of liver
(b) Metastases lung, etc.
(c) Arteriosclerosis
other
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