City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1793 - 28th December 1793

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Image 633 of 97813th August 1793


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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
that is to say, at the Parish of Saint Botolph
without Bishopsgate in the Ward of Bishopsgate
without in London aforesaid this 13th: day of
August 1793 on view of the Body of Ann White< no role >
now here lying Dead.

Sarah Wife of Matthew Hubbard< no role > of No. 14 Widegate Street
London Cook maketh Oath that between the hours of four
and five in the afternoon of Sunday last in consequence of an alarm Dept.
went into a yard behind Dept. House and into a Privy
belonging to the House that the deced was taken out of the
privy by one Thomas James< no role > who handed it to Dept. that it
was all over Filth and upon examination proved to be a little
Gaol belonging to me Thomas White< no role > a Bricklayer who lodges
in a two pair of Stairs back Room in Dept. Houseandthat
the dected was missing on the Friday Afternoon before
that when the Child was first missed on the Friday
afternoon the Father and Mother were very much dipressed
and inquired all about the Neighbourhood for the deced
that they had the Child cried and also printed Handbill
circulatedthat at the time the Child was found the Mother
was in the yard and appeared very much distressed on the
occasion thataboutbetween four and five on the Friday
afternoon Dept. saw the deced and two other Children go into
the yard of Dept. House one appeared to be about the
same age as the deced and the other about seven years of
age.

her
Sarah [mark] Hubbard< no role >
Mark

Thomas James< no role > of No. 2 George Street Spitalfields Shoe
maker maketh Oath that he hath known thedecedMother of
the deced about four Months and also the deced that on Friday
[..] Night last the Mother of the deced called at Dept. Home and
inquired for the deced saying she had missed the deced in
the afternoon of that Daythat on Sunday afternoon last Dept. being at a Shop in Petticoat Lane buying
some Apples asked a little Girl of the Name of Mary Barret< no role >
whom Dept. understood used to be sometimes in company with
the deced if she had seen anything of the deced on Friday
last Mary Barrey< no role > sayed she had been with her on the
Friday afternoon and that they went together into Mr. Wilkinson
Yard who had lately kept the House now Kept by Mr Hubbard< no role >




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