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Lydia Carter Duchesney death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on July 3, 1970

Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4156

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004156

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution Harbour View Guest Home

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Duchesney, Lydia Carter

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 9  21, 1875

10. AGE in  Years94  Months9  Days12 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Housewife

12. Kind of industry Housekeeping

13. Date last worked 1960       14. Total years 60

15. If married name of spouse Sylvanus Duchesney

16. NAME of Father Thomas Gwynn

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Ellen Heelan

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Clifford Duchesney

      address Baddeck

      Relationship to deceased Grand-son

21. Place of burial Aspy Bay Cemetery

      Date of burial July 5, 1970

22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd., Sydney Mines

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Chronic myocarditis

(b)

(c)

other

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