Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 2516
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002516
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution The Cove Guest Home
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Dickson, Rachel
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Broughton, C.B. Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 9 24, 1876
10. AGE in Years94 Months5 Days25 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession at home
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Colin Henry Dickson
16. NAME of Father Alexander MacKenzie
17. BIRTHPLACE Scotland
18. NAME of Mother Catherine MacCuish
19. BIRTHPLACE Broughton, C.B. N.S.
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Kathleen MacLeod
address 93 Rigby Rd., Sydney
Relationship to deceased niece
21. Place of burial Catalone, C.B.
Date of burial March 25, 1971
22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home Sydney N.S.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Coronary Thrombosis
(b)
(c)
other
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