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

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Image 331 of 8575th June 1799


City & Liberty of Westmr. in
the County of Middlesex }


Informations of Witnesses
taken this 5 June 1799 at
the House of Anne River< no role > the Sign of Compasses
in the Chelsea Road in the parish of St. George Hanover
Square on View of the Body of Hector Mc. Lean< no role >
Elizabeth< no role > the Wife of and Hector Mc Lean< no role >
being sworn saith that [..] the dead was been
for many Year in the Mercantile
time he has not had an ill
that of Health but has been very
much given to drinking & particularly
for the last fornight on saturday night
last he went to bed between 9 & 11 drink in Liguor
she went to Bed about 11 he was
then asleep She rose abot 7 o'Clock
and under morning then believes
he was alive the went to call been
about ½ past 9 but he did not unserve




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