Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1904
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001904
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Dartmouth
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Whelpley, John Harold Vincent
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Pictou
9. DATE OF BIRTH 8 4, 1930
10. AGE in Years40 Months6 Days24 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Sales Clerk
12. Kind of industry Nova Scotia Liquor Commission
13. Date last worked 1971 14. Total years 16
15. If married name of spouse Shirley Whelpley
16. NAME of Father Harold Whelpley
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Johnina
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Shirley Whelpley
address 113 Hawthorne Street, Dartmouth
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial Dartmouth Memorial Gardens, Westphal
Date of burial March 2, 1971
22. Undertaker Mattatall Funeral Services Limited, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Bullet wound through head - suicide
(b)
(c)
other
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