Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6389
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006389
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Lunenburg If in City or Town Bridgewater
If death occured in a hospital or institution Dawson Memorial Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Collins, James Edward
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Irish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 5 3, 1895
10. AGE in Years76 Months5 Days27 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Blacksmith
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 60 years 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Lila Collins
16. NAME of Father John Collins
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Ellen Boylan
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Neil B
address Chester, Nova Scotia
Relationship to deceased
21. Place of burial St. Patrick's Cemetery, New Ross, Nova Scotia
Date of burial Nov 2, 1971
22. Undertaker Davis Funeral Home, Chester, Nova Scotia
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Sarcoma of buttocks
(b) Metastasis to lungs
(c)
other
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