Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5736
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005736
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution Sydney City Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Crooks, George
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Scotland
9. DATE OF BIRTH 8 15, 1900
10. AGE in Years70 Months1 Days12 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired
12. Kind of industry Swift Canadian
13. Date last worked 1965 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Helen Crooks (Murchison)
16. NAME of Father James Crooks
17. BIRTHPLACE Scotland
18. NAME of Mother Annie Thompson
19. BIRTHPLACE Scotland
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. George Crooks
address 15 Pleasant St. Sydney
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial Hardwood Hill Cemetery, Sydney
Date of burial September 30, 1970
22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore, Sydney
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Hyess
(b) Cancer of Brain
(c)
other
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