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Melvin Wallace Turpin death at Shelburne, Shelburne County on August 25, 1970

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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