City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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Image 655 of 86124th August 1792


Deposition

of Witnesses taken at London, that is to
says at the parish of Saint Michael
Queenhite in the Ward of Queenshithe
in London aforesaid

Elizabeth Wife< no role > of John Ward< no role > a Sawyer and a Lodger
at No. 2 Coffeehouse Alley Upper Thames Street London
maketh Oath that about ½ part six O Clock in the Evening of
Tuesday last Dept. left the deced her Child a little Girl
about five years of Age in a Room in the Ground Floor of
the said House while Dept. went after her husband the
Father of the deced [..] who being intoxicated with
Liquor had gone out that Dept. went on near to Mr. Bone a few
Doors off whereshe foundher husband was then standing that Dept. stopped
[..] about ten Minutes that when
Dept. went out she had left the decd sitting in a little them
near the fire that on her Return uponopeningDept going
into the Room she found the deced still sitting in the Chair
that her Cloaths were in a Blazethat Dept immediately
took the deced out of the Chair and got he Cloaths off an fast
as she could-that Dept. examined the deced that she was
very mind burnt [..] down the left side of her body and
was almost deadthat Dept. took the Shild to on Mr. Redfern
a Surgeon in Old Fish Street that he was not at Home that
by the time Dept. got there the Child was quite dead

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