City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1799 - 28th December 1799

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Image 270 of 85710th May 1799


City & Liberty of Westmr in
the County of Middlesex }
Informations of Witnesses
taken this 10 May 1799 at
the House of the Sign of the Monster
in Monster Row Chelsea in the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square on View of the Body of a Man unknown
Wm Davison< no role > man of Chelsea

being Sworn saith that he was this Moving
at 5 o' Clock in a Beat opposite the red
House on the Thames [..] his Partner fishing
and this Person passing in a Boat said to [..]
this Dept. there was or drowned man
dowing up the River this Deponent
immediately & look him up & brat him
here he was then quite dead

The [mark] Mark of
Wm Davison< no role >

Geo: Duckett< no role > 15th. in Mining at Barfoot
& Bruin & Flew Wine Merchants being
sworn that the Deced was his Brother
& he saw him on Monday fortnight
last he was Lead Margeman of
Some meet Country Barger he
bad the Decd he facited away & Could not
proceed Gell

Accidentally drowned
name Wm
Duckett
< no role >




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