Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4604
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004604
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Halifax Civic Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Purcell, John Edward
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax
9. DATE OF BIRTH 7 28, 1887
10. AGE in Years83 Months11 Days24 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired Clerk
12. Kind of industry Royal Insurance Co.
13. Date last worked 1952 14. Total years 45 yrs
15. If married name of spouse late Margaret Purcell
16. NAME of Father James Purcell
17. BIRTHPLACE Halifax, Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Mary Murphy
19. BIRTHPLACE Halifax, Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Rev. Thomas Purcell
address Herring Cove, Halifax, NS
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial Gate of Heaven, Lower Sackville, NS
Date of burial July 24, 1971
22. Undertaker Cruikshank's Funeral Home Ltd.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Arteriosclerosis
(b) Constitutional
(c)
other
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