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

Informations taken this Thirtieth
day of December 1783. at the Parish
of St. George Hanover Square within the
Liberty of Westmr. in the County of
Middlesex upon an Inquisition touching
the death of a Male Infant Child
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty
and County.

Elizabeth Crowder< no role > Wife of Edward Crowder< no role > a Lodger at Mr. James Andrew< no role >
in Sun Court in the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square on her Oath saith That Mr. Littlewood a
Lodger in the same House, about three o'Clock in
the Morning of one Day in the Week before
Christmas, last came to Dept. Room, desiring
her to come down to a Woman's Labour
in her Room, Says that she went and the
Woman was soon Delivered of a Male Child,
who appeared to be well and healthy,
Says that she saw the Child the next day
when it looked very well Says that two
or three days before the Child was Christened
Mrs. Littlewood called Dept. into her Room to
skew her the Child who then appeared to be
much altered and Dept. then thought that
the Child would die, Mrs. Littlewood saying
that it had the Wakry Gripes, Says that
she carried the Child on Christmas Day to
St. George's Church to be Christened Mrs.
Littlewood being with her, The Child being
then very ill and Dept. thought it would
die before they returned home, Says that
on Sunday Morning last (the twenty eighth
Instant Dept. in going down Stairs asked
Mrs. Littlewood how the Child was, when she
informed Dept. that the Child died the Night
before about Seven o'Clock, Says that she does
not know of any thing being given or done to the
Child to came its Death, and believes that
the Child died in a natural Way.

Elizabeth Crowder< no role >
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