City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1784 - 29th December 1784

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Image 500 of 7067th September 1784


City and Liberty
of Westminster }
to wit


Informations of Witnesses taken
upon Oath this 7th. day of September 1784. at
the Dwelling House of Mr.Ray
the Sign of the Adam and Eve in Petty France
in the Parish of St. Margaret Westminster
Before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman His
Majesty's Crown for the City and Liberty of
Westminster on View of the Body of Thomas
Pigg
< no role > an Infant then and there lying Dead as
follow to wit

Susannah Pigg< no role > Wife of Thomas Pigg< no role > a Drummer in the Colestreet
Regiment of Foot Guards living at a House No. 8 let in seperate
Apartments in Horse shoe Alley Petty France in the Parish of
St. Margaret Westminster on her Oath saith That on Sunday last
about a quarter after Two o'Clock in the Afternoon, her Husband
was on the top of the Bed Asleep, Deponent was sitting in a
Chair by the Fire side, her Child the Deceased aged 13 Months was
running about the Room, says there was a Saucepan on the
Fire in which she was Boiling some French Beans, says she
got up from her chair in order to go to the Cupboard at the side
of the Room to fetch a Plate to put the French Beans in as
they were done, and hearing a Noise she turned immediately
and




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