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

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Image 330 of 53819th July 1768


Copy of Informations taken at the Parish of St. George Hanr. Square
the 19th. day of July 1798 touching the Death of Mary Lamb< no role > the
Wife of John Lamb< no role > .

Edward Kavanagh< no role > House Pupil of St. George's Hospital near Hyde Park Corner on his
Oath saith that when the Deceased was brought into the Hospital which was about
three weeks since the Bones of her left Leg were Fractured and the Flech la [..] rated
in such manner as one of the Bones came through, the Right Leg violently
Bruised and Wounded in two parts, she was the Whole time to two days before her
Death in a continual Fever which is usual in such cases, and two days before
her Death was seized with Convulsion fits, in one of which she expired on
Sunday the 17th. of July instant about 3 o'Clock in the Morning, and he apprehended
that the said Fever occasioned by the said Fractures Wounds and Bruises were the
Cause of her Death, and he further saith that during the time the Deced was in the
Hospital she was mostly in her Senses.

Henry Beauchamp< no role > of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge in the parish of St. Margaret
Westmr . Butcher on his Oath saith that on Monday 27th. of June last he went
to the Marquiss of Granby's Head at Knightsbridge to drink a Pint of Beer
and saw the Deced on the Marguiss of Granby's side of the Road going to
cross, she had a Child in her Arms, the Dept. saw the Exeter & Plymouth
Stage drawn by four horses coming into Town between Six & seven in
the Evenings, saw the Offside leader Horse run full against the Woman
and Child and pushed her down and with the force the Horses received
a Check and seemed to stop, that the Coachman then whipped the Horses and
made them go on, that the Dept. Saw the Off hind Wheel of the Carriage
go over one of the Legs of the deced, that some Persons took the Deced up
and brought her into the Marquiss of Granby's aforesaid and this Deponent
assisted in carrying her to St. George's Hospital , That the Dept went the same
Evening to look for the Coachman in Friday Street , that he appeared to be
in Liquor, that he said he believed that Off Wheel had pushed a Woman
down with a Child in a White frock, that the Dept. answered it was his Offside
leader," and he then said it was, he said he turned his Head round and
"saw the off fore Wheel clear of her, and he thought the hind Wheel might,"
says that the Coachman behaved in an impudent manner. Dept. is informed
the Coachman's Name is Harris.

Dorothy Lewendon< no role > a Nurse in St. George's Hospital on her Oath says that
she never enter'd into Conversation with the Deced relative to the manner
in which the Accident happened neither did the Deced herself say anything
upon that Subject to this Dept., other than that she endangered herself more by
endeavouring to save the Child, nor this Dept. did not hear her converse with any
other Parish about it, says the Deced was Sensible.




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