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Robert Henry Nurse death at Glace Bay, Cape Breton County on April 22, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4758

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004758

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Glace Bay
If death occured in a hospital or institution St. Joseph's Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Nurse, Robert Henry

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

African

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Barbados, West Indies

9. DATE OF BIRTH 6  11, 1891

10. AGE in  Years78  Months10  Days11 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired Minor

12. Kind of industry Dom. Coal Co

13. Date last worked 1957       14. Total years 41

15. If married name of spouse Josephine Douglas

16. NAME of Father Joseph Nurse

17. BIRTHPLACE Barbados

18. NAME of Mother Mary Reddick

19. BIRTHPLACE Barbados

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Josephine Nurse

      address 632 Gordon St, Glace Bay

      Relationship to deceased wife

21. Place of burial St. Mary's Cem., Glace Bay

      Date of burial April 25th 1970

22. Undertaker Curry's Funeral Home, Glace Bay

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) coronary [thrombosis?]

(b) [generalized?] arteriosclerosis

(c)

other

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