Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4662
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004662
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Colchester If in City or Town Truro
If death occured in a hospital or institution Colchester County Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Preston, Jane
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Westville
9. DATE OF BIRTH 12 4, 1889
10. AGE in Years80 Months7 Days28 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry At Home
13. Date last worked 1968 14. Total years 55
15. If married name of spouse Wm Preston
16. NAME of Father James Leslie
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Jessie MacDonald
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Mrs Vincent Coade
address 454 Queen St, Truro
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Fairview Cemetery, Halifax
Date of burial Aug 4, 1970
22. Undertaker Halifax Funeral Home Ltd
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Cerebral Haemorrage
(b)
(c)
other Ischaemic Heart Disease
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