Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 3542
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003542
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Pictou If in City or Town New Glasgow
If death occured in a hospital or institution 135 Temperance St
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Fisher, Wellward Layton
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 12 28, 1919
10. AGE in Years50 Months4 Days26 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Welder
12. Kind of industry Eastern Car Co.
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Kathleen Fisher
16. NAME of Father Harlin Fisher
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Bella MacNeil
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Ellsworth Fisher
address 192 Acadia St. New Glasgow
Relationship to deceased Brother
21. Place of burial Heatherdale Memorial Gardens, Alma.
Date of burial May 27, 1970
22. Undertaker R. H. Porter Funeral Homes LTD. Stellarton - Trenton New Glasgow
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Gun Shot Wound
(b)
(c)
other Fracture of skull & laceration of brain (suicide)
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