Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5998
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005998
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution St. Rita Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED MacKeigan, Ethel
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Westmount
9. DATE OF BIRTH 6 9, 1889
10. AGE in Years81 Months2 Days13 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession at home
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Henery Battersby
17. BIRTHPLACE Sydney
18. NAME of Mother Matilda Boutilier
19. BIRTHPLACE Coxheath
20. Signature of Informant Per: Mrs. Malcolm Fraser
address 5 Westmount Rd., Westmount C.B.
Relationship to deceased daughter
21. Place of burial Hardwood Hill Cemetery
Date of burial August 25, 1970 Sydney
22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd. Sydney
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Coronary Thrombosis
(b)
(c)
other
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