City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1793 - 30th December 1793

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Image 237 of 80127th April 1793


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Information of Witnesses taken the
27th. April 1793 in the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square at the Dwelling house of Wm
Hatchett
< no role > the Sign of the Shakespear Head of
in Eton Street Pimlico before Anthny Gell< no role >
Coroner for sd. City and Liberty [..]
touching the Death of Jonathan Estall< no role >
an Infant and about 5½ Yrs. then and
there lying dead.

Thomas Lambert< no role > of Eton Street Pimlico Timber
Merchant being sworn saith that about 4 o'Clock
Yesterday in the Afternoon as he was going along Pimlico
Wharf he saw Richard Farra< no role > a Workman a [..] Fisher
& Storer taken the body of an Infant Child named Wm.
Estall
< no role > out of the Water in which there seemed to be no
Signs of Life and thisinformantDeponent was informed
that [..] an elder Brother of the deceased was [..]
whereupon he got hold of an Hitcher and searched
the Water about a Quarter of an house and bird
hold of the deceased and brought to the Edge of
the Water when another Person took him out
and he appeared to be drowned and quite dead and
this deponent is of opinion that the deceased fell
into the Water and was accidentally drowned

Thos. Lambert< no role >

The Verdict that Jonathan Estall< no role > and Infant was
Accidentally drowned

Wm. Judson< no role >




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