City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1788 - 29th December 1788

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City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex

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Informations taken this fifth day
of May 1788 at the Parish of Saint
George Hanover Square within the
Liberty of Westmr. in the County of
Midsex upon an Inquisition
touching the death of Thomas
Davies
< no role > an Infant lying dead in
the said Parish Liberty & County

Lawrence Brown< no role > of Oxford Street Surgeon
on his Oath saith That on Thursday last the
first Infant, as Dept. thinks he was desired
to go see a Child that had fallen out of
a Hayleft in Masons Arms Yard says that
he went and on Examining the Child found
a Fracture on the left one of his Head
Says that the Child was unsensible and died
that Night about Twelve o' Clock says that he
Fratraned the Head and found a large drantly
of Extravagated Blood upon the Brain, and
Dept. says that the Deced died, in consequence
of the Injury reced by in the fall abovementioned

Lawrence Brown< no role >

Elizabeth< no role > the Wife of Richard Cooper< no role > a Caw have
on her Oath saith That she lives in Means
Arms Yard nearly appointe to Mr. Davis Father
of the Deced Thomas Davies< no role > the Infant , says
that on Thursday last the first Instant in the
Evening Dept. was going home their the pard
when she saw, the Deced and two other
Children playing in Mr. Davies's Apartmt.
one pair of Stairs and the Door upon
Says that she went towards her own Room
and immediately heard the Deced Mother
sereamont on which Dept. looked out and
saw the Deced lying upon the Stone Pavemt.
in the Yard, Says that the took the Deced in
her Arms and carried it into the Mothers Room
the




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