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

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Image 199 of 71215th April 1785


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An Inquisition intended taken for our Sovereign Lord the KING at the Sign of the Bell and Anchor in the Hamlet of Hammersmith
and Parish of Fulham in the County of Middlesex , the fifteenth Day of April in the 25th 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< no role > Esquire one of the Coroner s of our said Lord
the KING, for the said County, on view of the body Thomas Kirkman< no role >
then and there lying dead upon the Oath of James Hiscock: Edward
Pryce, Joseph Castle< no role > , Edward Stone< no role > , Lavender Laiton< no role > , William South< no role > , John Cooper< no role > , William Marriot< no role > , John
Watts. William Phelps< no role > . Thomas Gray< no role > , Richard Manning< no role > , William Besty< no role > , John Wood< no role > , Thomas Giddons< no role >
Francis Pick< no role > , Abraham Keene< no role > , Francis Wooton< no role > and John Twickkings
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 Thomas Kirkman< no role >
came to h is Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Thomas Kirkman< no role >
on the thirteenth day of April in the Year aforesaid coming down a Certain flights of Stairs in the Dwelling
House of him the said Thomas Kirkman< no role > Situate in the Parish and County aforesaid it so happened that the
said Thomas Kirkman< no role > did then and there Accidentally Casually and by misfortune fell down the said
flight of Stairs to the bottom thereof and by the force and Violence of the said fall the Neck of him the said Thomas
Kirkman was then and there broke and dislocated of which said breaking and Dislocating of the Neck
of him the said Thomas Kirkman< no role > he the said Thomas Kirkman< no role > then and there Instantly died And so the Jurors
upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Thomas Kirkman< no role > in manner and by the Means aforesaid
Accidentally Casually and by Misfortune came to his Death and not otherwise

In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said, James Hiscock< no role > 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.

Jas Hiscock [mark] Foreman




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