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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