City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1795 - 28th December 1795

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Informations of Witnesses taken this
20th. day of Febry 1795 in the Parish of St.
George Hanover Square at the House
of Bryant the Sign of the Swan
in Upper Mount Street before Anthony
Gell
< no role > His Majesty's Coroner for the said
City and Liberty [..] touching the
death of Jurors Edwards then and
there lying dead do follow

Thomas Wyndham< no role > of Kennington Gardener
being sworn deponth that between 5 and 6 oClock
in the room of upon [..] [..] day last the 18th. Instant
Mr. Banes the [..] Watchman's Boy at Kensing
ton came and told him that the declared had been
scating upon the Serpentine River andthatthe
he he he and he fill into the Water and mar
drowned to whereupon this Deponent and
another Person went immediately to the Boat
house and took the Boat and endeavoured to
find the deceased but could not discover him
therefore they went away and returned the next
morning (the 19th. instant about 7 o'Clock and at the searching
between 3 and four hours they found him and
took [..] him into the Boat and conveyed him to the
Boat house and from thence to a little Room
Son to the Dwelling house of Mr. Jones the
Park keeper




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