Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6543
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006543
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Colt, Margaret
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
American
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Eastern Passage, Halifax County
9. DATE OF BIRTH 1 7, 1877
10. AGE in Years94 Months10 Days8 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry At Home
13. Date last worked 1966 14. Total years 55 years
15. If married name of spouse Charles Craig Colt
16. NAME of Father Francis MacDonald
17. BIRTHPLACE NS
18. NAME of Mother Sophie Murphy
19. BIRTHPLACE NS
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Cecil T. MacKenzie
address 74
Relationship to deceased Fairbanks Street, Dartmouth, NS
21. Place of burial Babylon, New York, USA
Date of burial 17 November 1971
22. Undertaker Halifax Funeral Home Ltd.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Fracture of Left Femur
(b) Cerebrovascular Insufficiency
(c)
other
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