Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 3937
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003937
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town New Waterford
If death occured in a hospital or institution New Waterford Consolidated Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Roach, Joseph T
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
French
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Cheticamp
9. DATE OF BIRTH 9 22, 1884
10. AGE in Years85 Months8 Days18 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Coal miner
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Olive Chiasson
16. NAME of Father Ambrose Roach
17. BIRTHPLACE Cheticamp
18. NAME of Mother Margaret Boudreau
19. BIRTHPLACE Cheticamp
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Joseph T. Roach
address New Waterford
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial mt Carmel Cemerery, New Waterford
Date of burial June 12, 1970
22. Undertaker V J McGillivray Funeral Homes Limited, New Waterford
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) ASHD
(b) Congestive heart failure
(c) senile degeneration
other
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