City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1768 - 31st December 1768

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Image 130 of 53815th April 1768


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


Informations taken this Fifteenth day
of April 1768 at the Parish of St. Margaret
with in the City and Liberty of Westmr. in the
County of Middlesex on an Inquisition [..]
the Death of Hugh Monro< no role > lying dead
said Parish City Liberty and [..]

Alexander Monro< no role > a Lodge at Mr. Sat [..]
First Floor in White Hart Court in the Parish of [..]
Margaret Westmr . Labourer , Father to Hugh Monro< no role > the
Deced and instant about the Age of five Years, on his Oath saith
That Yesterday Morning about a Quarter after Eight
o'Clock this Dept. went down Stairs out of his Lodging
Room to fetch a trail of clean water, and his Wife
immediately with a trial of Dirty Water leaving the Decedthe Deced
in the Room rocking two small Children in the Cradle
Says that which he was in the Court he heard some
of the Neighbours cry out that this Dept. was falling
out of the window, upon which he immediately
saw the Deced fall upon the Stone Movement in the said
Court, where he lay Speechless and unable to move,
Says that he observed a Brime upon the right
said of Deced's Head, which Bleds, Says that the
Deced Continued Speechless and died in about
half an hour, Says that he saw the Surgeon dress
the Deced's Head, and that he then observed a large
Fracture in the scull, which he believes was the cause
of Deced's Death, And this Dept. further says that
no Person was in the Room with Deced when
fell out at the window, Excepting [..]
Children in the Cradle

The Mark of
[mark]
Alexander [..]

Sworn the Day Year & Place
above mentioned before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }




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