City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County
of Middx
}
Informations taken this fifteenth
Day of June 1792
at the Parish of Saint
Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of
Westminster
on an Inquisition on View of the
Body of
John Wilkinson< no role >
and Infant about
the Age of Six Years there lying dead.
Hannah< no role >
the Wife
of Joseph Pearson< no role >
of Saint
James Market
Green Grocer
on her Oath Saith
that Yesterday Evening she being at deceds
Fathers, John Wilkinson< no role >
, saw the deced at
Home alive and well, that immediately after
She saw the deced he went out that about
half an hour afterwards four or five little
Boys came to Mr. Wilkinson's one of them
having the deceds Hat and informed there that
the deced was drawned at Salisbury Stairs
says that Mr. Wilklinsons Maidby the Directi
of Mr Wilkinsonwent as Depts believes, to
the Water side in order to help to being the
deced home,
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Hannah Pearson< no role >
Timothy Byrn< no role >
of the Strand
Porter on his
Oath Saith that Yesterday Evening he hearding
that a Child was drowned at Kings Wharf
and taken up there, says he went thereof and
saw Mr. Bird rolling the deced then on the
Back of a Stranger to dept. endeavouring there
to press the Water out of deced and saw Mr.
Bird afterwards deliver the Body of the deced
to one Mrs. Foy then present. and dept went
away Directly says he had no discoarse with
Mr. Bird in relation to the deceds being
drowned
of
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Timothy Byrn< no role >