Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 2531
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002531
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney Mines
If death occured in a hospital or institution Harbour view Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Ferneyhough, Amos
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE England
9. DATE OF BIRTH 1 9, 1896
10. AGE in Years75 Months2 Days23 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Miner
12. Kind of industry Coal Mining
13. Date last worked 1955 14. Total years 35
15. If married name of spouse Lillian Thompson
16. NAME of Father George Ferneyhough
17. BIRTHPLACE England
18. NAME of Mother Jane Witherall
19. BIRTHPLACE England
20. Signature of Informant Arthur Ferneyhough
address 6 Young St., Sydney Mines, NS
Relationship to deceased son
21. Place of burial Trinity Cemetery, Sydney Mines, NS
Date of burial April 5, 1971
22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd., Sydney Mines, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) [illegible]
(b) Ca of Pancreas
(c)
other
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