Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5836
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005836
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General, Halifax
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Purcell, Albert Edward
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 11 14, 1878
10. AGE in Years91 Months10 Days4 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession retired
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Ethel Gorman
16. NAME of Father Christopher Purcell
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Susan Sadler
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Mrs Beryl Rogers
address Porteguese Cove
Relationship to deceased daughter
21. Place of burial Fairview Cemetery, Halifax
Date of burial Sept 21st 1970
22. Undertaker J. Albert Walker
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Pneumonia
(b) Fracture Rt. hip
(c) old massif pur taberculosis
other Old age and general weakness
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