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Wilfred Sydney Burchell death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on June 8, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3882

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 003882

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Burchell, Wilfred Sydney

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Joggins

9. DATE OF BIRTH 12  20, 1911

10. AGE in  Years59  Months5  Days19 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Lawyer Q.C.

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked 4 Mos.       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Helen MacLeod Burchell

16. NAME of Father George Bartlett Burchell

17. BIRTHPLACE Sydney, Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Grace Greenfield

19. BIRTHPLACE River Herbert

20. Signature of Informant Ralph Burchell

      address 200 Sunrise Dr., Westmount, C.B. N.S.

      Relationship to deceased brother

21. Place of burial Hardwood Hill Cemetery, Sydney N.S.

      Date of burial June 11, 1971

22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd, Sydney

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) acute myocarditis

(b) Chronic Generalized arteriosclerosis

(c)

other

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