Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6671
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006671
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Hancock, William Alfred
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Halifax
9. DATE OF BIRTH 10 8, 1893
10. AGE in Years78 Months1 Days12 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired Railroad
12. Kind of industry Mail Clerk
13. Date last worked 1949 14. Total years 30
15. If married name of spouse Alice Mae Beare
16. NAME of Father John Andrew Hancock
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Martha
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Dorothy Fillatre
address 2088 Beech St., Halifax, NS
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Camphill Cemetery
Date of burial November 23, 1971
22. Undertaker Lindsay Halifax
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Coronary occlusion
(b) Arteriosclerosis
(c)
other
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