City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1794 - 27th December 1794

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Image 235 of 78217th May 1794


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Informations of Witnesses severally
taken and acknowledged on the behalf
of our Sovereign Lord the King touching
the death of a Female Infant Child
Name unknown at the Dwelling house
of James Hill< no role > the Sign of the Barley
Mow in Mount Street Grosvenor
Square in the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square on the day of
May in the thirty fourth Year of the
Reign of or Sovereign Lord King George
the third before me Anthony Gell< no role >
His Majesty's Coroner for the said City
and Liberty on an Inquisition then
and there taken on View of the Body
of the said Female Infant Child Name
unknown then and there lying dead
as follow, to wit

Thomas Payne< no role > of Brook Street Grosvenor Square
Surgeon being sworn deporeth and saith
that on Saturday the 17th day of May 1794 he
was sent for to the Work House in Mount Street
Grosvenor Square to view of the Body of an Infant
Child Name unknown and upon viewing
and examining the same he find the it to be
a Female Child been at or near its full
time but was in so putrid a State that it
was not




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