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Minnie Ethel Boyd death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on October 24, 1971

Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6229

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 006229

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 Boyd, Minnie Ethel

4. Sex

Female

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scotish

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Sydney Mines

9. DATE OF BIRTH 5  18, 1906

10. AGE in  Years65  Months5  Days6 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Housewife

12. Kind of industry Housekeeping

13. Date last worked Oct. 23/71       14. Total years 40

15. If married name of spouse James Boyd

16. NAME of Father Matthew Brown

17. BIRTHPLACE Sydney Mines

18. NAME of Mother Elizabeth Ann McNeil

19. BIRTHPLACE Sydney Mines

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Ruth MacDonald

      address 169 Shore Rd., Sydney Mines

      Relationship to deceased Niece

21. Place of burial St. Andrews Cemetery, Sydney Mines

      Date of burial October 27, 1971

22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd, Sydney Mines

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Cerebral thrombosis

(b) Hypertension

(c) Arteriosclerosis

other

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