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Sarah Jane Keeping death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on October 23, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6227

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 006227

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution St. Rita's Hospital, Sydney

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Keeping, Sarah Jane

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland

9. DATE OF BIRTH 10  14, 1895

10. AGE in  Years76  Months0  Days9 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession retired

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father James Keeping

17. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland

18. NAME of Mother Maria Keeping

19. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland

20. Signature of Informant Rose L. Drake

      address Louisbourg

      Relationship to deceased daughter

21. Place of burial Forest Haven Memorial Garden, Sydney

      Date of burial October 25, 1971

22. Undertaker Johnson's Funeral Home, Louisbourg

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Ca Sigmoid

(b)

(c)

other Oesophageal Atresia

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