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

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City & Liberty of Westmr .
in the County of Midsex }

Informations taken this Fourth day of
November 1766 at the Parish of St. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of Westmr. in the County of Middlesex
on an Inquisition touching the Death of John Hoser< no role >
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty and County.

Elizabeth Collman< no role > (the Wife of Thomas Collman< no role > of Pimlico
in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square Labourer , on her
Oath saith, that the Deced used to work for Mr. Scott
in the Business of Brickmaking, and Acted as Clerk
Says that She was on Saturday last between four and
five o'Clock in the Afternoon upon the Hill of Ashes
in the Field at Pimlico with several other woman
when she saw the Deced running after a Sow there
endeavouring to get her into a House Says that the
Deced fell down upon the Ground, upon which Dept was
to him and found him lying upon his leftside on the
Ground motionless, Says that the Deced could not speak
and Dept. saw no Signs of Life in him, Says that the Deced
was lifted up on his Backside, and soon after put into
a Queel barrow and wheeled home, Says that no
Person was near the Deced when he fell down, and
that he did not receive any hurt from any Person
there, And this Dept. says that the Deced appeared
to be in perfect health on Saturday Afternoon before
he had the fall abovementioned

Elizabeth Collman< no role >




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