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Robert Ernest Shields death at Guysborough, Guysborough County on April 3, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3507

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 003507

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Guysborough If in City or Town Guysborough
If death occured in a hospital or institution Guysborough Memorial Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Shields, Robert Ernest

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

single

8. BIRTHPLACE Riverside Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 8  18, 1884

10. AGE in  Years86  Months7  Days16 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession retired

12. Kind of industry Farmer

13. Date last worked 1954       14. Total years 50 yrs

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father Thomas Shields

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Jane  Torey

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Earl Sceles

      address RR#2 Boylston

      Relationship to deceased Nephew

21. Place of burial Boylston N.S.

      Date of burial April 5, 1971

22. Undertaker Thompson & Haverstock Funeral Home, Port Hawkesbury N.S.

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Carcinoma of Bronchia

(b)

(c)

other

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