Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 5873
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005873
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, New Waterford, NS
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Muir, Hugh
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Westville
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 28, 1891
10. AGE in Years80 Months4 Days23 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession coal miner
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 1950 14. Total years 40 years
15. If married name of spouse Georgina MacEachern
16. NAME of Father Hugh Muir
17. BIRTHPLACE Westville, NS
18. NAME of Mother Margaret MacNorton
19. BIRTHPLACE Westville, NS
20. Signature of Informant Robert Muir
address 311 Ellsworth Ave., New Waterford, NS
Relationship to deceased son
21. Place of burial St. Agnes Cemetery, New Waterford, NS
Date of burial Sept 22, 1971
22. Undertaker VJ McGillivray Funeral Homes Limited, New Waterford, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Myocardial Infarction
(b)
(c)
other
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