Resolved CA: MC DONALD, Duncan Age: 90

Some conflicting dates and ages for Mr. McDonald's profile.

State of California Unclaimed Person's database (link):
MC DONALD, Duncan Age: 90
...
Place of Death: Sepulveda on 12/28/97
Los Angeles County Department of Coroner (link):
Decedent Name: Duncan MC DONALD
...
Case Number: 1997-07434
Age/Height/Weight: 93 / 66 / 100
Eye/Hair Color: Brown / Gray
Date of Birth: April 03, 1904
Date of Death: October 28, 1997
Place of Birth: Canada
Last Known Address: 9244 Lemona Avenue
Sepulveda, CA
California, Death Index (link):
Duncan Mcdonald, "California, Death Index, 1940-1997"
Name: Duncan Mcdonald
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 28 Oct 1997
Event Place: Los Angeles, California, United States
Birth Date: 01 Jan 1907
Birthplace: Unknown
Gender: Male
 
Name: John D. Macdonald
SSN: 562-10-xxxx
Last Residence: 91343 North Hills, Los Angeles, California
Born: 3 Apr 1904
Died: 28 Oct 1997
State (Year) SSN issued: California (Before 1951)

I don't know much at all about the geography of LA, but I did find info that suggests that Sepulveda is not a place (i.e. Sepulveda, CA) so much as a street, and that it is one border of the North Hills neighborhood.

Using that name, I find:
Nova Scotia, Canada, Births, 1836-1910 Record
Birth, Marriage & Death
Name: John Duncan MacDonald
Birth: 3 Apr 1904 in St.Joseph's, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada

That leads here:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JV9B-HBC
to Father's Name: Alex A Mcdonald
Mother's Name: Maggie Mcisaac

This page:
https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ItemView.aspx?ImageFile=1904-92404423&Event=birth&ID=184218
is his application to register his birth, made in 1943, when he was living on Wilshire Blvd in LA... confirms Alex and Maggie as his parents.

Then I can't find him again. *sigh*

This is NOT the same as John D(an) McDonald, born Jan 1904 in Antigonish, to Alex and Christina. I found a few records for this man before I realized it was someone else; this person lived in Michigan for a time, so far as I can tell.

There are more than a few McDonalds out of that same city, many with similar names. I found a John Duncan McDonald, same birth town, about a generation older who relocated to and died in Massachusetts, also.

I'll keep looking...
 

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