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John Harold Vincent Whelpley death at Dartmouth, Halifax County on February 28, 1971

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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