Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 5217
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005217
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution St. Vincent Guest Home
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Burns, Mary Elizabeth
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
single
8. BIRTHPLACE Hammonds Plains
9. DATE OF BIRTH 11 30, 1878
10. AGE in Years92 Months8 Days28 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired
12. Kind of industry Tailor
13. Date last worked 1960 14. Total years 65 yrs
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Pierce Burns
17. BIRTHPLACE Hammonds Plains
18. NAME of Mother Margaret Doyle
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Edward Burns
address 846 Robie St., Halifax
Relationship to deceased Nephew
21. Place of burial Hammonds Plains
Date of burial August 31/971
22. Undertaker Cruikshank's Funeral Home Limited
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Carcinoma of oesophagus
(b)
(c)
other
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