Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4772
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004772
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Glace Bay
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED MacDonald, John James
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Dominion
9. DATE OF BIRTH 10 28, 1901
10. AGE in Years68 Months8 Days25 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Miner
12. Kind of industry Mining
13. Date last worked 8 years 14. Total years 47
15. If married name of spouse Lorena Spenser
16. NAME of Father Angus MacDonald
17. BIRTHPLACE Dominion
18. NAME of Mother Mary ()
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Joe MacDonald
address
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial
Date of burial July 26/1970
22. Undertaker Curry's Funeral Home Glace Bay.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Cancer of Lung
(b)
(c)
other
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