City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
CW | IC

2nd January 1786 - 23rd December 1786

About this document type

Currently Held: Westminster Abbey Muniment Room

LL ref: WACWIC652260065

Image 65 of 83128th January 1786


James Hart< no role > [..] Mr. Norgrove in Oxford Court
Oxford Street Laborer on his Oath saith That
on Tuesday Evening he was at Mr. John
Donoldson
< no role > the Sign of Rodney's Head in
Chandler Street when two Women come in
with a Child, and a Man who sat down
in a Box in the Taproom, Says that the
Old Woman had the Child in her Arms
That the Woman had some Conversation
which Dept. could not hear, nor did he
see the Child on the Table but saw the
Young Woman have the Child and carried
it away.

James Hart< no role >

John Chippindale< no role > a Lodger at the Rodney's
Head in Chandler Street on his Oath saith
That on Tuesday Evening last he was in
the Taproom there, when he saw an
old Woman there with a Child upon
her Knee a Young Woman and a Man
which [..] said was no Husband Says that he asked the old Woman why
she did not take more care of it, being
afraid it might fall down, upon which
the old Woman said Dam it, I will have
nothing more to do with it, and threw
the Child, down upon the Table its Head coming
first upon the Table, and the Young Woman
took up the Child, put it under her Cloak
and carried it away, Says that the Child
did not cry, nor does he know that the
Child reced any hurt by being thrown
upon the Table

Jno Chippendall< no role >

Joseph Ferdinando Gillio of Hill Street
in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square
Surgeon on his Oath saith That he this
day Examined the Male Infant Child and
found no Marks of violence whatever upon
the Child, That he opened the Deced's Head
and found every part in a natural State.

J Gillio




View as XML