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William Corbett death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on July 2, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4391

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004391

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 Corbett, William

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Nfld.

9. DATE OF BIRTH 9  14, 1913

10. AGE in  Years57  Months9  Days18 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Steelworker

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked 1 1/2 mos.       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father  

17. BIRTHPLACE

18. NAME of Mother  

19. BIRTHPLACE

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Jean MacKeigan

      address 22 Edgewood Dr., Sydney River, C.B.

      Relationship to deceased Daughter

21. Place of burial Calvary Cemetery, Sydney

      Date of burial July 5, 1971

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

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Lobar Pneumonia

(b) (Severe) Degenerative Myocarditis

(c)

other Alcoholism

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