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April 1760

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The Several Informations ofSarah Susannah Dorwood< no role > & Jane Dudman< no role > taker
& acknowledged on behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King touching the Death of a
Female Instant at Paddington Coffee house in the Parish of Paddington in the County
of Middlesex on the ninth day of April 1760 on View of the Body of the said Female
Intant on an Inquisition then & there takenon Viewbefore me George Grew< no role > One Coroner
as follows.

Susannah Dorwood< no role > wife of Richard Dorwood< no role > of the Town of
Paddington Labour Says on Tuesday the eighth Day of Aprill
1760. Deponent was sent for by Mrs Deadman of thesdbefore and
Town who suspected that a Woman who is called Ann Hullock< no role > This name instance is in set 3994433.
Servant to a Lodger in Mrs Deadmans House was that Morning brought to bed:ofand desired this Deponent
would go to the Vault or Necessay house to look if she could see
any Child or the Appearance thereof; Deponent did look, and in
the said vault did see the foot of a Child, and then told Mrs Deadman
that She this Depont. has discovered the Child: Then this Depont. went
up two Pair of Stairs to the sd Ann Hullock< no role > This name instance is in set 4433. & said Hanny how
came you to be so wicked to throw yr. Child into the Vault, who
said She did not know what to do with It: Then Deponent advised Mrs
Deadman that the Child Should be taken out of the Vault before the
Body should be viewed by a Jury & Mrs Deadman ordered Deponent to
take the Intant Body out; which she did, wch Infant proved to be a
Female, and when so taken out of the Vault & said on the floor
in the Vault, on Examining the Body the Head appeared to be Severed
from the Body all but a Small Skinn at the Back of the Rock
And says thataftergoing upstairs again to sd Ann Hullock< no role > This name instance is in set 4433. & after
discover with her found where a Knife was withwithwch the sd Ann
Hullock
< no role > This name instance is in set 4433. owned, she had cut off her Infants Head

The Mark of
Susanna Dorwood< no role >




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