City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 29th December 1789

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Image 242 of 76615th April 1789


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


Informations taken this Twentieth
day of April 1789 at the Parish of St.
George Hanover Square with in the
Liberty of Westmr. in the County of Midsex
upon an Inquisition touching the death
of a new born Male Child lying dead
in the said Parish Liberty and County.

David Lewis< no role > of New Bond Street in the
Parish of St. George Hanover Square Apothecary
and Man Mid wife on his Oath saith, That on
Wednesday Evening last the fifteenth Instant
between Seven and Eight o'Clock this Dept.
was desired to came to Mr. Mac donall in
Bond Street when he went there Mrs.
Mac donall told him that she was afraid
that her Maid Servant would soon be
Delivered of a Child, upon which he
went up Stairs the Woman being in Bed,
and immediately told Dept that she had
been Delivered of a Dead Child, which
was in Bed with her Says that he took
the Child which was dead, and observed
to the Mother that the Navil string was
Divided to which she answered that
she had been at several Labours and
that she cut it with a Scissars which she
always carried in her Pocket Says that
he examined the Child and found no
Marks of violence upon it and
Dept. Says that the Mother told Dept. that she
had not preceived the Child to move in
the Wom [..] . for a Month

Davd. Lewis< no role >

Catherine< no role > the Wife of David Mac donall< no role >
of New Bond Street in the Parish of St.
George Hanover Square on her Oath saith
That Ann Gilliard< no role > has lived with Depont
between six and seven Months and did
her Business, until Wednesday last
and




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