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Percy Roper death at Ingonish, Victoria County on November 29, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 7138

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 007138

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Victoria If in City or Town Ingonish
If death occured in a hospital or institution at home

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Roper, Percy

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Ingonish

9. DATE OF BIRTH 11  22, 1878

10. AGE in  Years92  Months  Days7 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Labourer

12. Kind of industry Labouring

13. Date last worked 1946       14. Total years 50

15. If married name of spouse Georgena Jackson

16. NAME of Father Jesse  Roper

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Charlotte 

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant James J. Roper

      address Ingonish

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial United Church Cemetery, Ingonish

      Date of burial December 2, 1970

22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd. Sydney Mines

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Strangulation

(b)

(c)

other Suicide - by cord around neck

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