City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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30th January 1797 - 28th December 1797

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Image 413 of 60725th August 1797


her bon and was not tyed Dept afterwards took out the
hungs of the Child and put them in Water and they floated
the Child appeared to Dept to have been bon about 36 hours
or there about & putresaction had not taken place on it
Dept says that he is of opinion & believes the Child was bon
alive, & as far as he can form a judgmt from appearances
its death was occasioned by a Legatun not having been tyed
on the havel String

Sworn this 26. day of
Augt 1797 before me
T Shelton Corr}

John Burden< no role > Kent

Thomas Weatherhead< no role > of No.290 in the Row
High Street Brother and Assistant to Mary Weatherhead< no role >
who keeps a Haberdesten & Williamson Shop there maketh
oath that last Thursday eveng. Dept came down into the Shop
about seven oClock says her Dustenen were then in the
Cellar and Dept ordered the porter who sayed he called them
to take them a light which he did and he afterwards aforesaid
Dept to take down the Shatten and afterwards he saw she
Dusher deliver the Porter the Candle and say they had taken
all the Dust away; & then they went away, and Dept heard
nothing more until the afternoon when he was informed the
Dustmen had sayed they had found a Child in the Cellar

Sworn this 26 day of
Augt 1797 before me
T. Shelton Corr}

Thos Wartherhead< no role >

Mary Kembale< no role > of Chapel Court in the Bond
High Street Midwife maketh oath that last Thursday eve
she saw the deced Infant which appeared to Dept to have been a
seven or eight months Child and to have two bon a live Says
that she examined all the females of Miss Weatherhead family
and that she can take on hereof to say that she dead Infantchildwas not
the Child of either of them.

Mary Kamball< no role >

Sworn this 26th. day
of Augst 1797
before me
T Shelton Corr.




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