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

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say whether the Child had been born alive but he was
[..] from appearants, that if it had, been born alive it could not lived
He cannot say how the Child came there.

William Gores< no role >

Jno Boulton< no role > Parish Surgeon
Surgeon
being sworn deposeth the & saith, that he
examd. the Deced he did not see any Mark of
Violence appearing on ithe does not
believe it to be at the Meet above a seven Months
Child & in rather of Opinion to have been
Still born& under the most favorable
[..] even supposing it to have
been born alive as Exertion in his
opinion could have savedthere was
a tufling Mark on the Child which home
he does not think could have destroyed
the Child, had it been born alive

John Bolton< no role >

Verdict
That the said new born female Child on Sunday the
14th. day of Septr. 1794 was found in a Vault belonging to
the House of Mr Gores, but how by what mean the said
Child either came there or came to her Death no Evidence
thereof doth appear to the Jurors.

James Reynoll< no role > Forman




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