City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1770 - 26th December 1770

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


Informations taken this Ferit day of
September 1770 at the Parish of St. Martin in [..]
Fields with in the Liberty of Westmr. in the County of
Middlesex upon on Inquisition touching the Death
William Graham< no role > lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty & County.

Henry Onsworth< no role > of Hungerford Market [..] Porter
on his Oath saith, That he was this Morning between Eigh [..]
& Nine o' Clock carrying Coals out of a Lighter at
Hungerford Stairs in the Parish of St. Martin in the
Fields and discovered the Elbow of the Deced out
of the Mud about five Yards from the End of the
Coureway, the Body being on the Mud, Says that
he stept into a small Boat and took up the Deced
out of the Mud and with some Assistance brought him
to the shore in said Parish having a small Bruice
upon her Forehead, and appeard to have been Drown
some time.

Henry Ounsworth< no role >

Sworn the Day year & Place
abovementioned before me
Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner .}




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