City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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a Month ago to inquire for Lodging and he recommended
her to a Lodging, and she told him she was the wife
of Charles Yates< no role > a Privett in the third Regiment
and that she had thro his friends procured a Discharge
for him, which as soon as she had effected he
deserted her which affected her so much that she
never talked upon that subject to this Deponent
(which she did several times) without crying and
being much assesed in her mind,and [..]
several different times she said that her Father was a bright light in
heaven and was making Intuist for her,and
therefore she would go to him as soon as possible,
and therefore this Deponent believes she was
deranged in her mind

The [mark] Mark
of John Goodrum< no role >

The Vertict That Margeret yates< no role > was deranged
in her mind and in a fit of lunacy drowned
herself in the River Thames in the Parish of
St. John the Evangelist Westminster

Thos. Simpson< no role >
Foreman




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