Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Image 114 of 71224th June 1782


Middlesex
To Wit.

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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at The Hamlet of Hammersmith
in the County of Middlesex , the Twenty fourth Day of June in the 22d. Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the third , by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of
the Faith, Etc. before Edward Umfreville one of the Coroners of Our of said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body of George Wilkinson< no role >
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of John Bloye< no role > , Thomas Jobson< no role >
Thomas Randall< no role > , John [..] Caplin< no role > , Joseph Antill< no role > , William Bruce< no role >
John Hammett< no role > , William Orchard< no role > , Samuel Lissett< no role > , John Groom< no role > , William
Hallett, John Stevens< no role > , Robert Ade< no role > , Thomas Livard< no role > , William Salter< no role > and
Thomas Rymel< no role >

good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said George Wilkinson< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said George Wilkinson< no role >
on the Twenty second Day of June in the year aforesaid at the Hamlet
and County aforesaid having gone into The River Thames there in Order to
Bath himself It so happened That he the said George Wilkinson< no role > then
and there accidentally, casually and by Misfortune was in the Waters
of the said River suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation
and Drowning he the said George Wilkinson< no role > then and there died And so
the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid Do say That the said George
Wilkinson in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually
and by Misfortune Came to his Death

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said John Bloyed the Foreman of
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned

E: Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

John Bloye [mark] Foreman




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