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Murray Doncaster death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on October 11, 1971

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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