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Murray MacPherson death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on November 16, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 7161

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 007161

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution City Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED MacPherson, Murray

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Sydney, Cape Breton County

9. DATE OF BIRTH 6  1, 1891

10. AGE in  Years80  Months5  Days15 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Postal Department

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Nettie Milly MacPherson

16. NAME of Father John MacPherson

17. BIRTHPLACE Sydney, Cape Breton Co., NS

18. NAME of Mother Mary Ferguson

19. BIRTHPLACE Leitches Creek, Cape Breton Co., NS

20. Signature of Informant George MacPherson

      address 424 Townsend Street, Sydney, NS

      Relationship to deceased Brother

21. Place of burial Hardwood Hill Cemetery, Sydney, NS

      Date of burial 19 November 1971

22. Undertaker R. H. Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd., Sydney, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease

(b) Sudden Coronary Thrombosis

(c)

other

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