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Jane Preston death at Truro, Colchester County on August 1, 1970

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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