Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 7113
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 007113
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Lunenburg If in City or Town First South
If death occured in a hospital or institution at home
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Dewar, William James
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Lunenburg County
9. DATE OF BIRTH 2 15, 1898
10. AGE in Years72 Months9 Days7 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Fisherman
12. Kind of industry Fishing
13. Date last worked 1962 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Jennnie Whynott Dewar
16. NAME of Father John Dewar
17. BIRTHPLACE Canada
18. NAME of Mother Emma Acker
19. BIRTHPLACE Lunenburg County
20. Signature of Informant Jennie L. Dewar
address First South
Relationship to deceased wife
21. Place of burial Centre
Date of burial November 25, 1970
22. Undertaker Dana L. Sweeny, Lunenburg
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Epidermoid Carcinoma of Jaw
(b)
(c)
other
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