Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6216
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006216
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution Sydney City Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Doncaster, Murray
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Oxford
9. DATE OF BIRTH 5 21, 1886
10. AGE in Years85 Months4 Days21 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Steelworker
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked March 1953 14. Total years 49
15. If married name of spouse Jessie Doncaster
16. NAME of Father M. Allen Doncaster
17. BIRTHPLACE Oxford
18. NAME of Mother Bertha Schurman
19. BIRTHPLACE Oxford
20. Signature of Informant Peggy Doncaster
address Sydney
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Hardwood Hill Cemetery, Sydney
Date of burial 12 October 1971
22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore, Sydney
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Renal Failure
(b)
(c) Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
other Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease Pneumonia
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