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Wayne Lafford death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on September 20, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 7179

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 007179

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 Lafford, Wayne

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Mi'kmaq

7. Single, Married

single

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 8  13, 1950

10. AGE in  Years20  Months1  Days7 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father Benjamin Lafford

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Helen Marshall

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Richard Denny

      address 240 Wellington St., Chatham, NB

      Relationship to deceased Sister

21. Place of burial Holy Family Cemetery, Eskasoni

      Date of burial Sept. 24, 1970

22. Undertaker Curry's Funeral Home, Sydney, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Gun shot wound abdomen and chest

(b)

(c)

other Investigation to establish either accident or homicide

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