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William Ernest Burke death at Little Lake, Cape Breton County on August 2, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4908

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004908

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Little Lake
If death occured in a hospital or institution St. Rita Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Burke, William Ernest

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Irish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 5  13, 1894

10. AGE in  Years76  Months2  Days20 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Fishing

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked 1968       14. Total years Life

15. If married name of spouse Mary Ann Burke

16. NAME of Father John Rich  Burke

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Mary Elizabeth Broderick

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mary A. Burke

      address Little Loraine

      Relationship to deceased Wife

21. Place of burial Main-A-Dieu

      Date of burial August 5, 1970

22. Undertaker D.M. Johnston, Louisbourg

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Coronary thrombosis

(b) myocardial insufficiency

(c) Pericardial adhesions

other

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