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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