Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1226
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001226
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution Sydney City Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Sheppard, Ernest John
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Glace Bay
9. DATE OF BIRTH 3 14, 1908
10. AGE in Years62 Months10 Days1 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Docks Dept.
12. Kind of industry Steel Plant
13. Date last worked Jan/71 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Rachel Morrison Sheppard
16. NAME of Father Arthur Sheppard
17. BIRTHPLACE Nfld.
18. NAME of Mother
19. BIRTHPLACE Nfld.
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Ronald MacPherson
address Coxheath, C.B. N.S.
Relationship to deceased daughter
21. Place of burial Hardwood Hill Cemetery, Sydney
Date of burial January 17, 1971
22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd., Sydney
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Coronary Thrombosis
(b)
(c)
other
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