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

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Image 600 of 78215th September 1794


City & Liberty of Westmr. in
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Informations of Witnesses taken this
fifteenth day of September in the Year
of our Lord 1794 at the Dwelling House of Daniel Bastie< no role >
Sign of the Faulkon in Sutton street Parish of Saint Anne
Soho on view of the Body of a new born female Child
then & there lying dead as follow to wit

Sarah< no role > the Wife of Wm Hunt< no role > of No. 1 of Faulconberg Court in the
Parish of St. Anne Soho
being sworn deposeth & saith, that, she went yesterday morning
to empty the Chamber Pot into the Vault of the said House
as she was going she met Mrs Welsh who also lives in the same
House & who desired her not to empty the pot in the Vault as it
was fullThis Deponent therefore emptied the Pot on the Dust
in the Court This Dept. went immediatelyintoafter into the
necessary & upon entering very easily perceived a Box on the
top of the fifth in the said Vault. this Dept. immediately
took with her hands the said Box out of the Vault (which
she could very well do as the vault was quite full) she called
immediately for a Knife& waterwhich Mr Basket a lodger
in the said House immediately brought & Mr Welsh brought
some water. This Dept. out some while [..] which bound the said
box close & when it was open, she found therein a [..] new
born female Child wrapped up in Flannel further this Dept.
knows not.

the Mark [mark] of
Sarah Hunt< no role > .

Wm. Gores< no role > [..] of Faulconberg Court aforesaid being sworn
deposeth & saith, that Mr. Boulton Surgeon examined the Dead
Yesterday afternoon about 4 O' Clock & he was present nearly
of the time the Surgeon was examining the Child & heard
the Surgeon Declare that there were no Marks of Violence
appearing on any part of the Child & he Did not believe
it to be were than a Six Months Child he [..] could not




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