Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4641
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004641
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 Gorman, Melvin Edward
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Irish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax
9. DATE OF BIRTH 5 14, 1920
10. AGE in Years51 Months1 Days27 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Engineer
12. Kind of industry Coal Mining
13. Date last worked 1971 14. Total years 30 yrs
15. If married name of spouse Lucy Rose
16. NAME of Father Thomas Gorman
17. BIRTHPLACE New Waterford, NS
18. NAME of Mother Ann MacPherson
19. BIRTHPLACE New Waterford, NS
20. Signature of Informant Mrs Melvin Gorman
address Victoria Mines, NS
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial Forest Haven Cemetery, Syd Glace Bay Highway
Date of burial July 14, 1971
22. Undertaker V.J. McGillivray Funeral Homes Limited, New Waterford, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Acute Myocardial Infarction
(b) He's had 3 previous attacks
(c)
other
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