Ann Jeffs< no role >
Midwife
of St. Martins Workhouse
on her
Oath saith that she Examined Hester Rowden< no role > This name instance is in set 4094386.
and was certain
that she had been Delivered of a Child, that the said Hester
Rowden< no role >
denied it several times, but afterwards confess'd
to this Deponent that on Monday the 21st. Instant she [..] was delivered of the Child which was Born alive
and that she had strangled the said Child with a String
and afterwards concealed the said Child in the Copper Hole
in the Yard of the House belonging to Mr. Evans in St.
Martin's Lane
in the Liberty of Westminster
Ann Jeffs< no role >
All the before mentioned Depositions
were severally taken and acknowledged
the 24th. day of September 1761. before
Me
Jno. Feary< no role >
Coroner
.