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

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Image 602 of 85728th September 1799


Room and shed also put my three Children
(the Eldest of which in about three Years and
three Quarters old) into may Bed and then we
both came down Stairs together evening the Chamber Door on the Tarn and won after
wards we listed and found them all quiet
and concluded they were all asleep upon which
We bothwe both went to the sign of the
three Johnsandin the same Street and drank
a Pint of Beer together and then we returned
home and were not absent more than a
Quarter of an hour and is soon as we got
into the house [..] eldest Child above
mentioned called but pan above and said
Mammy Belly is in the Water upon which
Mr. Taylor rushed by me on the Stairs
and went up into the Room and followed
her [..] with a lighted candle
and she found the Child with his head [..]
at the bottom for a large Tin Kettle and [..] learn of with his Belly over
the sd Kettle and I saw her whip him up out of
the Kettle (in which there was some Water wherein
we had boiled same came Potatas) and she pulled off
his Cap and Bed Gown and Shirt and [..]
the Bedand then carried the Child down Stairs
to the second Floor and then enabled the Child
before the Tie and got a looking Glass and try'd
if the Child breathed but, there was no Appearence
of Breath on the Glass upon which Wm. Taylor< no role >
finding no Sign of life carried the Child up
Stairs again into our Room, and Iran
immediately to Mr. Pillonen in Apothecary
in Dartmonth street whose Assistant came end ordered
the Bed to be warmed with a Pan of hot Coals
and the Child to be put [..] which it was immediately done but to no
purpose as the Child war part recovery.

The [mark] Mark
of Anne Hermitage< no role >

The Verdict
That John Taylor< no role > an Infant was accidentally
suffocated in a large Kittle Value one Shilling wherein zome Water
was W Jones Foreman




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