Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4405
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004405
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution Spring Garden Villa
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Mercer, Ernest
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Upper Island Cove, Nfld
9. DATE OF BIRTH 11 4, 1892
10. AGE in Years78 Months8 Days8 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Steel Worker
12. Kind of industry Nail Mill
13. Date last worked 1961 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Sadie Mercer
16. NAME of Father James Mercer
17. BIRTHPLACE Upper Island Cove, Nfld
18. NAME of Mother Elizabeth Mercer
19. BIRTHPLACE Upper Island Cove, Nfld
20. Signature of Informant Sadie Mercer
address 135 Dorchester St., Sydney, NS
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial Hardwood Hill Cemetery, Sydney, NS
Date of burial July 15, 1971
22. Undertaker R. H. Fillmore Funeral Home, Sydney, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Coronary (Illegible)
(b)
(c)
other
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