Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6640
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006640
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Dartmouth
If death occured in a hospital or institution 13 Guysborough
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Knight, Edith Jane
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Caucasian
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE St. John's, Newfoundland
9. DATE OF BIRTH 6 14, 1891
10. AGE in Years80 Months5 Days7 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry Housekeeping
13. Date last worked Nov.20/71 14. Total years Life
15. If married name of spouse James Knight
16. NAME of Father Samuel Field
17. BIRTHPLACE England
18. NAME of Mother Emily Reid
19. BIRTHPLACE England
20. Signature of Informant Jean Russell
address 13 Guysborough, Dart.
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Lower Sackville
Date of burial November 23, 1971
22. Undertaker F. MacDonald, Queen St., Dart.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Myocardial Infarction
(b) Coronary artery disease
(c) Diabetes
other
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