Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4638
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004638
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town New Waterford
If death occured in a hospital or institution New Waterford Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Higgins, John Edward
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Irish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Prince Edward Island
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 2, 1883
10. AGE in Years88 Months3 Days5 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Coal Miner
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 1949 14. Total years 40 yrs
15. If married name of spouse Margaret MacDougall
16. NAME of Father Edward Higgins
17. BIRTHPLACE PEI
18. NAME of Mother Jean Keenan
19. BIRTHPLACE PEI
20. Signature of Informant William Higgins
address 53 King St, New Waterford, NS
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial Mt. Caramel Cemetery, New Waterford, NS
Date of burial July 9, 1971
22. Undertaker VJ McGillivary Funeral Homes Limited, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Cerebrovascular accident
(b)
(c)
other
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