Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 3469
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003469
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Northside, East Bay
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Jones, John Merlin
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Welsh
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Sydney
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 1, 1914
10. AGE in Years56 Months1 Days16 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Service Station
12. Kind of industry ESSO
13. Date last worked May 16, 1970 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Irma Spencer
16. NAME of Father Daniel Philip Jones
17. BIRTHPLACE Dawlais, South Wales
18. NAME of Mother Margaret Davis
19. BIRTHPLACE Dowlais, South Wales
20. Signature of Informant Mrs Irma Jones
address RR #1, Sydney
Relationship to deceased Widow
21. Place of burial Forest Haven Memorial Gardens, Sydney - Glace Bay Highway
Date of burial May 21, 1970
22. Undertaker R. H. Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd, Sydney
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Drowning by immersion in salt water
(b)
(c)
other
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