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Amos Ferneyhough death at Sydney Mines, Cape Breton County on April 2, 1971

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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