Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5672
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005672
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Kings If in City or Town Wolfville
If death occured in a hospital or institution Elms Rest Homes
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Dorsay, James
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 6 26, 1874
10. AGE in Years96 Months2 Days24 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Miner
12. Kind of industry Coal Mining
13. Date last worked 1944 14. Total years 50 years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father William Thomas D'Orsay
17. BIRTHPLACE Scotland
18. NAME of Mother Mary Ann Ryan
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Marjorie Kerr
address Elms Rest Home, Wolfville
Relationship to deceased Neice
21. Place of burial Trinity Cemetery Sydney Mines
Date of burial September 23, 1970
22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) CVA - immediate
(b) Hypertension -
(c)
other
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