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John Merlin Jones death at Northside, East Bay, Cape Breton County on May 17, 1970

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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