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John Stewart Penny death at Bras d'Or, Cape Breton County on February 5, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1588

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 001588

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Bras d'Or
If death occured in a hospital or institution Alder Point Rd. (At home)

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Penny, John Stewart

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland

9. DATE OF BIRTH 10  4, 1899

10. AGE in  Years71  Months4  Days1 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Miner

12. Kind of industry Coal Mining

13. Date last worked 1963       14. Total years 32

15. If married name of spouse Emma Bertha Clarke

16. NAME of Father Samuel Penny

17. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland

18. NAME of Mother Margaret Mahaney

19. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland

20. Signature of Informant Burgess Penny

      address 23 Atlantic St., Sydney Mines

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Brookside Cemetery, Sydney Mines

      Date of burial February 8, 1971

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

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Acute Myocardial Infarction

(b) ASHD

(c)

other

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