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

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Image 608 of 79220th September 1797


to go to the Necessaryfoundsoon returned and
told Mrs. Macklin the had some went room to
believe from what appeared on the Floor of the
Necessary that the woman who had just before
been there had been delivered of a Child
whereupon Mrs. Macklin ordered this Deponent
to take a Candle and look down the Hole of
the Necessary which she did and discovered
the Sign of an Infant which was soon taken
out and washed when it did not appear to
this Deponent to be of full Growth
and Mrs. Macklin than sent to the Parish
Officers and acquainted them with
[..] the above Circumstances

The [mark] Mark
of Sarah Taylor< no role >

Richard Simmonds< no role > Surgeon to St. Martin
Workhouse being sworn deposeth that he
has received the Body of the said Female
Infant Child which appears to him not to
be more than between four and five months
old

old and has reason to believe that the
said Child was still born

Richd. Simmons< no role >

the Verdit
The Female Child still born
Jacob More< no role >




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