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George Crooks death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on September 27, 1970

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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