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James Alexander Simpson death at Glace Bay, Cape Breton County on August 11, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5718

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005718

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Glace Bay
If death occured in a hospital or institution Glace Bay General Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Simpson, James Alexander

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 3  18, 1910

10. AGE in  Years60  Months4  Days24 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired Coal Miner

12. Kind of industry Dominion Coal Company

13. Date last worked 1959       14. Total years 20

15. If married name of spouse Margaret Simpson

16. NAME of Father George Simpson

17. BIRTHPLACE Scotland

18. NAME of Mother Jessie Robinson

19. BIRTHPLACE United States

20. Signature of Informant Louis Burnett for Andy Newell

      address 76½ Phalen Rd. Glace Bay

      Relationship to deceased Son-in-law

21. Place of burial Forest Haven, Sydney

      Date of burial August 14, 1970

22. Undertaker Patten's Funeral Home Ltd. Glace Bay

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Right sided Heart Failure

(b)

(c)

other

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