City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1797 - 29th December 1797

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Image 172 of 7929th March 1797


the Privey and she declared she did not know
neither did she ever hear the Child cry
This Deponent asked her why she did not tell
her that she was with Child she said she
meand to tell her but thought she had longer
to go. This Deponent further sayeth that lately
having occasion to look into her [..]
when the Child was found she asked her Niece
if she had provided any Child Bed Linnen
and she gave this Deponent the Keys of one
of her Boxes and told her to open it where
she would find a Band Box with something
which being produced in Court there were found
a Childs Roller same Chin Stays and an
old little Childs Cap which she now told this
Deponent she had [..] borrowed for a Button
and an old Shirt to cut up for those purposes and
further that she had intended to have brought
some more Child bed Linnen with the half
Guinea

The [mark] Mark
of Hannah Ayres< no role >

No. 3

Richard Simmonds< no role > Surgeon to Saint
Martins Work house being sworn deposeth
that he has examined the said Child
which appears to he a tall grown Child
but cannot take upon him to say that she
was alive when born

Ricd: Simmons< no role >

Elizabeth Wakelin< no role > of No 4 Middlesex Court Wife of James Wakelin< no role >
a Private in the Second Rejiment of Guards
being sworn deposeth that on Monday morning
last (the sixth Instant) about half part seven
o'Clock as she was going to Mr Collins a
Pawn Broker in Long Acre , she saw the said
Diana Chettell< no role > standing at in the Passage
of the Sun Public house Long Acre with
a Pint pot in her hand and also a bundle
tied




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