City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1766 - 29th December 1766

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Image 26 of 6864th January 1766


City and Liberty of
Westmr. in the County
of Middlesex }


Informations taken this Eighth day of
January 1766. at the Parish of St. Margaret
within the City and Liberty of Westmr. in
the County of Middlesex on an Inquisition
touching the Death of a New born Female
Child lying Dead in the said Parish City
Liberty and County.

Archdall Harris< no role > of Queen Street in the parish
of St. Margaret Westminster Surgeon on his Oath saith
that he this day Examined a New born Female Child
and finds that it was dead born, and believes that the
Mother of the said Infant was between the Eighth and
Ninth Month of her pregnancy:

Archdall Harris< no role >

Richard Young< no role > of Westminster Market on his Oath
saith that he was this Morning lighting a Fire in his
Father's Shop in Westmr. Market in the parish of St. Margaret
between Seven and Eight o'Clock, when a Boy belonging
to Mr. Avery Vokins< no role > called out that a Child was lying upon
a Dunshill in the Green Market there, Says that the Child
was Dead, and naked, but Dept. observed no Marks of
Violence upon the Body of said Child.

Richard Young< no role > .

Severally Sworn the
Day year and place
abovementioned, before me}
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner .




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