Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6201
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006201
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Richardson, Joseph Morgan
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Sydney
9. DATE OF BIRTH 10 17, 1914
10. AGE in Years56 Months10 Days16 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Plummer
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 3 years ago 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Madge Fry
16. NAME of Father Harold Richardson
17. BIRTHPLACE Whales
18. NAME of Mother Janice Stevenson
19. BIRTHPLACE Scotland
20. Signature of Informant George Richardson
address 32 Holyrood Dr. Sydney
Relationship to deceased Brother
21. Place of burial Hardwood Hill Cemetery, Sydney
Date of burial September 7, 1971
22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd. Sydney
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Drowning by Immersion in Salt Water
(b) Alcoholism long history
(c)
other Accident, Fell in Sydney Harbour while intoxicated
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