City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1765 - 24th December 1765

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Image 166 of 6294th April 1765


City and Liberty of
Westmr. in the County
of Middlesex

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Informations taken this Fourth day of April
1765 at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square within
the Liberty of Westmr. in the County of Middlesex on an
Inquisition taken on View of the Body of Mary Harris< no role >
lying Dead in the said Parish Liberty and County.

Mary Colelough< no role > of North Chapel Court in the parish of St.
George Hanover Square Widow on her Oath saith, That Mary
Harris
< no role > the Deced has lodged with Dept. about four or five Years
last past, during which time the Deced has had very ill
health and constantly complained of her Head, Says that
about Nine o'Clock Yesterday Morning Dept. was in her
fore Kitchin, and was alarmed by her Maid Servant
crying out that Mr. Harris was fallen into the Area
upon which Dept. went there and saw the Deced lye in
the back Area with the left side of her Head upon the stone
step and almost Double, Says that the Deced then Bled
at the Nose and Mouth, Says that the immediately sent for
Mr. Sturges an Apothecary who come there, and that soon
after his Servant came there who bled the Deced, and the
Deced was afterwards carried to her own Room on the
Second Floor, where she died very soon after, Dept. Says
that about a fortnight ago Deced threw herself out of
her Window on the Second Floor and Fell upon some
Mold in the back yard, Deponent says that she verily
believes the Deced has been for a considerable time past
Disordered in her Senses. Dept. says that she belives
the Deced threw herself out of her Window on the Second
Floor Yesterday Morning and thereby reced a hurt, of which she died

Mary Caldough< no role >

Morris Connell< no role > an Apothecary with Mr. Sturges in South
Andley Street on his Oath saith, That he was sent to the Deced
yesterday morning [..] Mrs. Calelough's Says that he went and found her on the Ground
in the back Area Speechless, Says that he Examined the Deced
and found a Wound on her left Knce and another behind her
left Ear




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