Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 2630
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002630
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cumberland If in City or Town Springhill
If death occured in a hospital or institution All Saints Springhill Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Riches, Richard
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Springhill
9. DATE OF BIRTH 5 10, 1894
10. AGE in Years76 Months10 Days21 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Miner - Retired
12. Kind of industry Coal Mining
13. Date last worked 1947 14. Total years 30 yrs
15. If married name of spouse Mrs. Theresa Riches
16. NAME of Father Robert Riches
17. BIRTHPLACE England
18. NAME of Mother Lilla Mountain
19. BIRTHPLACE New Brunswick
20. Signature of Informant Adel Gilbert
address 25 Victoria St., Springhill
Relationship to deceased None (Executrix)
21. Place of burial Oxford
Date of burial April 2, 1971
22. Undertaker A.H. Brown Funeral Service Ltd., Springhill
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Cerebro-vascular Accident
(b) Hypertension
(c)
other
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