City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th February 1760 - 31st December 1760

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Westminster City and Liberty
in the County of Middlesex }
to wit

An Inquisition Indented and taken at the Parish of
St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at
Westminster the Seventeenth day of March in the Thirty third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth, and
in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty . Before John Feary< no role > Coroner for our
Sovereign Lord the King for the City and Liberty of Westminster aforesaid Upon a Veiw of the Body of
a Female Child then and there lying Dead by the Oaths of Samuel Adams< no role > , John Eldridge< no role > , David Burnsal< no role >
James Crosby< no role > , Thomas Thompson< no role > , John Thomas< no role > , Edward Strut< no role > , Jenkin Edwards< no role > , Richard Clements< no role > John Barlow< no role > Joseph
Beer
< no role > , Thomas Webb< no role > , Thomas Eyres< no role > , William Buxton< no role > , William Green< no role > , Francis Johnson< no role > , William Morris< no role > , John Roomer< no role >
Thomas Eustace< no role > , William Davis< no role > , Walter Russell< no role > , Thomas Hutchinson< no role > , and William Davis< no role >
Good and Lawfull Men of the said City and Liberty who being Sworn and Charged to Inquire for our
Sovereign Lord the King how when where and in what manner the said Female Childcame to her
Death say upon their Oaths That Ann Keppell< no role > This name instance is in set 406. This set is in the group(s): MothersPS . late of the Parish of St. George Hanover Square in the
Liberty and County aforesaid Spinster on or about the third day of this Instant March being big with a
certain Female Child afterwards the day and Year aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, alone
the said Female Child from her Body by the Providence of God did bring forth Stillborn and Dead, which
said Female Child had it been Born alive would by the Laws of this Realm have been a Bastard. And
so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oaths aforesaid do say that the aforesaid Female Child was so brought
forth Stillborn and Dead In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the Jurors aforesaid have
hereunto put their hands the day Year and at the place abovesaid

Jno. Feary< no role > Coroner
Saml. Adams< no role > Foreman
John Eldridge< no role >
David Burnsall< no role >
James Crosby< no role >
Thos Thompson< no role >
Jno. Thomas< no role >
Edward Hunt< no role >
The mark of [mark] Jenkin Edwards< no role >
The mark of [mark] Richd. Clements< no role >
John Barlow< no role >
Joseph Bear< no role >

The Mark of [mark] Thomas Webb< no role >
Thomas Eyres< no role >
William Buxton< no role >
William Green< no role >

Francis Johnston< no role >
William Morris< no role >
John Roome< no role >
Tho. Ewstead< no role >
Wm. Davies< no role >
Walter. Russell< no role >
Thos. Hutchinson< no role >
William Davis< no role >




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