Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4409
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004409
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney Mines
If death occured in a hospital or institution at home
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Layton, Margaret Jane
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Sydney Mines
9. DATE OF BIRTH 8 3, 1911
10. AGE in Years59 Months11 Days15 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry Housekeeping
13. Date last worked 1968 14. Total years 37
15. If married name of spouse Ernest Layton
16. NAME of Father Charles Bachelet
17. BIRTHPLACE Boston, Mass.
18. NAME of Mother Grace Roberts
19. BIRTHPLACE Scotland
20. Signature of Informant Ernest Layton
address 42 Fraser Ave., Sydney Mines, NS
Relationship to deceased Husband
21. Place of burial Brookside Cemetery, Sydney Mines, NS
Date of burial July 20, 1971
22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd., Sydney Mines, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Bronchopneumonia
(b) Dehydration
(c) Chronic Pyelonephritis
other Cerebrovascular Accident with Paralysis
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