City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1790 - 30th December 1790

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Image 844 of 94927th November 1790


London


Informations of Witnesses taken at
the parish of Saint Botolph without
Bishopsgate in the Ward of Bishopsgate
in London the 27th. Novr. 1790 in Ben [..] of
the body of child there lying dead.

Thomas Jones< no role > lodger at the Coach & horses in Aldersgate
Street London Carpenter maketh oath that last Thursday
morning about 7 o'Clock Dept and his partner went to a
house in Sun Street to work; that while they were standing at
the door Dept saw something wrapped up lying in the Kitchen
& or going down he put it up to his partner who opened it &
discovered the deced Dept says other house was not in finished
& was un inhabited, that the [..] and thewas opening for the
and no Window to the Kitchen.

Sworn the 27 Novr. 1790
before me
J: Shelton Corr.

Thos Jones< no role >

Benjamin Weston< no role > of Godfrey's Court Milk Street
Carpenter saith nothing.

Thomas Fearon< no role > pupil to Mr. Saffron of old Bethlem
Surgeon maketh oath that last Thursday att. Dept saw the
dead which appeared to be a new born female infant; it was at
the parish Work heard Dept saw it again in the eve No marks of
violence whatever appeared [..] put then and string was untied
& left at its full length Says the Child was opened, its large taken
out & put into Water, and Dept says they pleased

Sworn the 27th. Novr. 1790
before me}

T Shelton Corr.

Thos Fearon< no role >




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