Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5761
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005761
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cumberland If in City or Town Amherst
If death occured in a hospital or institution Highland View Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Brayley, William Henry
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Irish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Parrsboro
9. DATE OF BIRTH 8 8, 1900
10. AGE in Years70 Months1 Days13 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession
12. Kind of industry Farming
13. Date last worked 1968 14. Total years 50
15. If married name of spouse Vida Willigar
16. NAME of Father Berman Brayley
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Mary MacAloney
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Ralph B Brayley
address Parrsboro
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial Parrsboro
Date of burial 24 Sept 1970
22. Undertaker S W Smith & Son Ltd, Parrsboro
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) cerebral thrombosis
(b) arteriosclerosis and arteriosclerotic heart disease
(c)
other chronic duodenal ulcer with stenosis
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