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Catherine May Nelson death at Halifax, Halifax County on October 24, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6181

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 006181

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General Hospital, Halifax

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Nelson, Catherine May

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Springhill

9. DATE OF BIRTH 8  7, 1882

10. AGE in  Years89  Months2  Days17 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession housewife

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked 1944       14. Total years 40 years

15. If married name of spouse Hugh Fawcett Nelson

16. NAME of Father Alexander  McInnis

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Isabella Scott

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant T. Everett Nelson

      address 29 Victoria St., Springhill, NS

      Relationship to deceased son

21. Place of burial Leamington, Cumberland Co., NS

      Date of burial October 27, 1971

22. Undertaker A.H. Brown Funeral Service Ltd Springhill, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Myocardial Infarction

(b)

(c)

other

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