Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4737
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004737
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney Mines
If death occured in a hospital or institution Harbour View Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Holmes, Margaret
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Blanter, Scotland
9. DATE OF BIRTH 1 6, 1897
10. AGE in Years74 Months5 Days21 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry Housekeeping
13. Date last worked June 10/71 14. Total years 50
15. If married name of spouse Charles Henry Holkmes
16. NAME of Father William MacEwen
17. BIRTHPLACE Ireland
18. NAME of Mother Jessie Brown
19. BIRTHPLACE Scotland
20. Signature of Informant Spurgeon Holmes
address 1 Stafford Ave., Sydney Mines, NS
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial St. Andrews Cemetery, Sydney Mines, NS
Date of burial June 30, 1971
22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd., Sydney Mines, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Massive Myocardial Infarction
(b)
(c)
other Single car accident: Fractured ribs, contused right lung, fractured pelvis, fractured left femur, lateral drum, fractured spine
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