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

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Image 678 of 71222nd November 1799


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AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our Sovereign LORD the KING, at the House of
John Darby< no role > the Sign of the Red Lion Paddington in the
Parish of Paddington in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty Second Day of November in the Fortieth 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, and so forth, before George Hodgson< no role > Gent
one of the CORONERS of our said LORD the KING, for the said County, on View of the Body of
John Baker< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
the several Persons whose Names are hereunder-written and Seals affixed, good and lawful
Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly sworn and
charged to inquire, for our said LORD the KING, when, how, and by what Means, the said
John Baker< no role > came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Baker< no role > on the nineteenth
Day of November in the Year aforesaid at the Parish and in the
County aforesaid going up a Ladds there It so happened that the
said Laddes broke and he fell from the same upon the Leads of a
Barn there by Means whereof he received one mortal Wound of
which he languished until the twenty first Day of the said
Month of November and then died And so the Jurors aforesaid
do say that the said John Baker< no role > in manner and by
the Means aforesaid accidentally came to his death
and not otherwise
IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said CORONER asthe said John Evans< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, and the Rest of his said Fellows, have, to this Inquisition set
their Hands and Seals, the Day, Year, and Place first above-written.

Geo. Hodgson< no role > Coroner [mark]
Jno Evans Foreman [mark]
James Porrett< no role > [mark]
John Ashton< no role > [mark]
Mark Bimey< no role > [mark]
Thomas Collison< no role > [mark]
Wm Tanner< no role > [mark]
J Brook [mark]

Thos Haynes< no role > [mark]
Joseph Mansell< no role > [mark]
John Padwick< no role > [mark]
Henry Heath< no role > [mark]
James Thwaites< no role > Mark [mark] [mark]




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