Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5310
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005310
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Shelburne If in City or Town Shelburne
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Turpin, Melvin Wallace
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Irish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Shelburne
9. DATE OF BIRTH 11 5, 1884
10. AGE in Years85 Months9 Days20 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Ship Carpenter
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 1945 14. Total years 45
15. If married name of spouse Mrs Melvin Turpin
16. NAME of Father James Turpin
17. BIRTHPLACE Shelburne
18. NAME of Mother Irene Lyons
19. BIRTHPLACE Shelburne
20. Signature of Informant Gladys Marguerite Guys
address Harriet Street, Shelburne
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Shelbune
Date of burial 27 August 1970
22. Undertaker Huskilson Funeral Home, Shelburne
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a)
(b)
(c)
other
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