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Sandford Seale death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on May 29, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3873

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 003873

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

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Seale, Sandford

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

African

7. Single, Married

single

8. BIRTHPLACE Cape Breton

9. DATE OF BIRTH 1  18, 1954

10. AGE in  Years17  Months4  Days10 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Student

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father Oscar Seale

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Leotha Gittens

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Oscar Seale

      address 988 Westmount Road, Westmount, NS

      Relationship to deceased Father

21. Place of burial Forest Haven Memorial, Sydney-Glace Bay Highway, CB, NS

      Date of burial June 2, 1971

22. Undertaker T.W. Curry Limited., Sydney, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Stab wound of Abdomen

(b) Ruptured Bowel, ruptured Aorta, ruptured Superior Mesenteric Vein, ruptured Middle lobe artery

(c)

other Homicide

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