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Thomas Edward Nearing death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on May 4, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3300

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 003300

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution Sydney City Hospital, Sydney NS (DOA)

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Nearing, Thomas Edward

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Irish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Glace Bay

9. DATE OF BIRTH 5  6, 1926

10. AGE in  Years44  Months11  Days28 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Construction

12. Kind of industry laborer

13. Date last worked 1952       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Myrtle Nearing

16. NAME of Father Joseph  Nearing

17. BIRTHPLACE Glace Bay, NS

18. NAME of Mother Matilda Milley

19. BIRTHPLACE Glace Bay, NS

20. Signature of Informant Joseph Nearing

      address 203 MacLeod's Crossing, Glace Bay, NS

      Relationship to deceased father

21. Place of burial St Joseph Cemetery, Glace Bay, NS

      Date of burial May 7, 1971

22. Undertaker V J McGillivray Funeral Homes Limited, Glace Bay,NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Drowning

(b)

(c)

other Accident: Fell in Sydney River

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