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

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Image 534 of 76614th September 1789


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


Informations taken this fourteenth day
of September 1789 at the Parish of St.
Martin in the field within the Liberty
of Westmr . in the County of Midsex
upon an Inquisition touching the
death of a new born Female child
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty
and County.

Everard Home< no role > of Castle Street in the
Parish of St. Martin in the Fields Surgeon
on his Oath saith that he this day Examined
the Body of a New born Female Child and
found no Marks of violence thereupon
That the Child was not come to Maturity,
so that she could live not being seven
months gone. and Dept believes that
the Child never breathed,

Evererd Home< no role >

Thomas Manwaring< no role > of the Strand in
the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
Surgeon and Man Midwife on his Oath
saith That he this day Examined the body
of a new born Female Child,and found
and found no external Marks of violence
upon her, That he appears to Dept to be
a Seven Months Child or thereabout, and
thinks that the Child was not born alive

Thos. Mainwaring< no role >

Thomas Holmes< no role > of York Buildings
Lighterman on his Oath saith That this Morning
about five o' Clock, he discovered [..]
a Bundle lying in the River Thames at the
bottom of George [..] York Buildings in the
Parish of St. Martin in the Fields , Says
that




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