City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1790 - 31st December 1790

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Image 674 of 7788th November 1790


City & Liberty of
Westmr .}


Informations taken this Eighth day
of November 1790 at the Parish of St.
James within the Liberty of Westmr. in
the County of Middlesex upon an Inquisition
touching the death of a Male Infant Child
lying dead in the said Parish Liberty and
County.

William Morris< no role > of Marl [..] Street Surgeon
on his Oath saith That he Examined the
Body of a Male Infant Child at St. Jamess
Workhouse yesterday supposed to be from three to four
Months, and is of Opinion from not being able
to [..] the least mark of violence, that the Child
died a natural Death.

Willm Morris< no role >

Joshua Panton< no role > at the Pavior's Arms in
Swallow Street one of the watchmen of the
Parish of St. George Hanover Square , on his
Oath saith That Yesterday Morning about
twenty Minutes after Seven o'Clock Dept. was
going home from his Watch, through Savill
Passage in the Parish of St. James that there
saw two Men standing who said that there
was a Coffin ad Dept. saw it lye on the
Ground on his left hand, Says that he
immediately went to St. James's Watchouse
and informed the Watchhouse Keeper thereof
upon which he went to Savill Passage
and took out three Screws out of the Coffin
when Dept. saw that it was a dead Male
Child, Says that one of the St. James Watchmen
and Wm. Smith< no role > a Beadle come there saw the
Child and the Watchman took the dead Child
on




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