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John Robert Thornhill death at Halifax, Halifax County on August 24, 1971

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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