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William Hugh Cleary death at Guysborough, Guysborough County on November 25, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 7712

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 007712

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Guysborough If in City or Town Guysborough

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Cleary, William Hugh

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Irish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Guysborough Intervale

9. DATE OF BIRTH 8  27, 1920

10. AGE in  Years51  Months2  Days23 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Carpenter

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years 20

15. If married name of spouse Marion Cleary

16. NAME of Father Thomas Cleary

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Catherine Conally

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Ronald Cleary

      address R.R.#2, Boylston

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Guysborough Intervale

      Date of burial November 28, 1971

22. Undertaker Thompson and Murdock Funeral Home, Port Hawkesbury

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Gun shot wound of Chest

(b)

(c)

other Suicide - shot through left side of chest. Heart Fragmented

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