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Richard Riches death at Springhill, Cumberland County on March 31, 1971

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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