Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 7445
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 007445
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Postlewaite, William Gregory
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Sydney
9. DATE OF BIRTH 7 14, 1915
10. AGE in Years56 Months5 Days1 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Mechanical Foreman
12. Kind of industry Dominion Steel
13. Date last worked 3 months 14. Total years 35
15. If married name of spouse Lavinia Hagell Postlewaite
16. NAME of Father James Postlewaite
17. BIRTHPLACE England
18. NAME of Mother Myra Thompson
19. BIRTHPLACE England
20. Signature of Informant Lavinia Postlewaite
address 77 Lorne St. Sydney
Relationship to deceased Widow
21. Place of burial Hardwood Hill Cemetery, Sydney
Date of burial December 18, 1971
22. Undertaker R.H. Fillmore Funeral Home
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Aortic Stenosis
(b)
(c)
other
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