Female Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 7379
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 007379
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cumberland If in City or Town Springhill
If death occured in a hospital or institution McAloney's Nursing Home
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Purdy, Margaret Jennie
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English Irish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Linden
9. DATE OF BIRTH 6 10, 1902
10. AGE in Years69 Months5 Days12 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Housewife
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked Sept. 1970 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Steavley Mitchell
17. BIRTHPLACE Linden, Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Sarah Mitchell
19. BIRTHPLACE Linden, Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Mary E. Halliday
address Collingwood RR#1
Relationship to deceased Sister
21. Place of burial Millvale Cemetery, Cumb. Co. NS
Date of burial 25 Nov 1971
22. Undertaker F.A. Black
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) cerebral thrombosis
(b) prev stroke - 1 yr ago
(c)
other
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