Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 7189
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 007189
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution St. Rita's Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Merchant, Helen
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Irish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Cape Breton
9. DATE OF BIRTH 7 27, 1912
10. AGE in Years58 Months4 Days | 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 Robert Pendergast
17. BIRTHPLACE Cape Breton
18. NAME of Mother Margaret MacNeil
19. BIRTHPLACE Cape Breton
20. Signature of Informant James Merchant
address 161 Union Street, Sydney, NS
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial Resurrection Cemetery, Sydney Forks, NS
Date of burial Nov. 30, 1970
22. Undertaker T. W. Curry Ltd., Sydney, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Apoplexy
(b)
(c)
other
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