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William Alfred Hancock death at Halifax, Halifax County on November 20, 1971

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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