Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 5222
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005222
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Thornhill, John Robert
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Fortune, Newfoundland
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 8, 1881
10. AGE in Years90 Months4 Days16 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired
12. Kind of industry Fisherman & Carpenter
13. Date last worked 1960 14. Total years 50 yrs
15. If married name of spouse Emma Thornhill (deceased)
16. NAME of Father Robert J. Thornhill
17. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland
18. NAME of Mother Anna Strickland
19. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland
20. Signature of Informant (Mrs) Mollie Harding
address 1 Central Ave. Fairview, Halifax
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Camp Hill Cemetery, Hfx.
Date of burial August 26, 1971
22. Undertaker Cruickshanks Funeral Home Limited
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Myocarditis with failure
(b)
(c)
other
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