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

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Mary Wilkie< no role > of No. 10 Perkins Rents
near Old Pye Street within being sworn deposeth
as follow, to wit That on Wednesday
night last the twenty second Instant
a little after ten o'Clock my son Robert
Wilkie
< no role > came into my house and asked
me if his Brother will was above Stairs
and I Told him he was not, but nothing
satisfied he took the Key of the Room Door
(where his Brother used to sleep) out of the
Window in my Room and went up stairs
and another Man with him, but he
could not

Could not unlock the door and same
down stairs into my Room and swept
all my Crockery Ware from off the Shelves
upon the Floor and then he went away
and while he was breaking he Rocking
I went and called to the Watchman built
my Son Robert was gone before the
Watchman came, and when he did come
I desired him to go directly to my son
Tom in Dean Street to come to me, last
my Son Bob should return to me
again but he did not return and
my son Tom came in less than half
and hour and staid with me till five
o'clock the next morning when I went
to Billingsgate Market


The [mark] Mark
of Mary Wilkie< no role >

Thomas Connor< no role > to Watchman in Dean street
in the Parish of St. Margaret Westminster being
Sworn Deposeth as Follows to wit Thoss about
half past eleven o'clock on Wednesday night
last




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