Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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Image 50 of 63219th July 1781


MIDDLESEX
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Paul Shadwell in the County of
Middlesex , the Nineteenth Day of July in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third , by the Grace of God, Great-Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Andrew Turnbull then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
James Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Thomas Cannon< no role > Thomas Street< no role > Christian Awe< no role > William Willis< no role > John
Whittington John Pownceby Henry Thomas< no role > , John Hartnell< no role > , Thomas James< no role > Anthony Carlatte< no role >
and Samuel Buckley< no role >
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 Andrew Turnbull came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Andrew Turnbull on the Thirteenth
Day of July in the Year aforesaid being stepping from a certain Ship called The
Cumberland then lying on the River Thames near Shadwell Dock in the Parish and
County aforesaid to a certain other Ship to the said Jurors unknown then also lying
there. It so happened That he the said Andrew Turnbull then and there accidentally
casually and by Misfortune fell into The River aforesaid and was in the Waters
thereof then and there suffocated and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning
He the said Andrew Turnbull then and there died and so the Jurors aforesaid upon
their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said Andrew Turnbull in Manner and by
the Means aforesaid accidentally casually and by Misfortune came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said James Pownceby< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf of himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner
James Pownceby [mark] Foreman




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