Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4417
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004417
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Colchester If in City or Town Economy Mountain
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED McBurnie, Joseph Austin
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Five Islands
9. DATE OF BIRTH 11 13, 1889
10. AGE in Years81 Months8 Days2 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Farmer & Lumberman
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 1965 14. Total years 55
15. If married name of spouse Edna Alcorn (deceased)
16. NAME of Father Lisby McBurnie
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Eliza Wadman
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Chester McBurnie
address Economy Mountain, NS
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial Five Islands, NS
Date of burial July 17, 1971
22. Undertaker S. W. Smith & Son Ltd., Parrsboro, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Chronic Myocarditis
(b) Arteriosclerosis
(c)
other
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