City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1791 - 30th December 1791

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Image 198 of 67218th April 1791


London Information of Witnesses taken
at the parish of Saint Botolph without
Aldgate in the ward of Portsoken in London
aforesaid on the 18th day of April 1741 on
view of the Body of Elizabeth Ansell< no role > now
here lying dead

Benjamin Abrahams< no role > of Bell Alley Coleman Street
Ge [..] for Hannah Wife< no role > of more
Lying Lodger at one [..] Dukes place
in the parish of Saint James's Dukes place London maketh
Oath on a side that [..] known the deced [..]
Elizabeth Ansell< no role > [..] about that been Months that she was a married Minar
the deced had a sitt [..] Bay [..] her in who died
hen eleven Months ago since which time the deced has
been very much disorder in her sence so much so
that Dept. was employed by the husband to look after
deced during his absence - that one often observed the
that talking to hereself - that she oftensencethrew any thing
from dept. and often walked about her upon that
he deced and her husband agree very well together street
the deced husband always behaved well to her and used
[..] very senderly that Dept. left the that in [..] one hairs of
Stairs Room in her husbands Dwellings house Gravel Lane
lounds lutch and out eight OClock on Thursday night last
that she was very violent and disordered very much in
to sense when Dept. then left her so much so that she
high struck at Dept. withthrew.and Iron Poker [..] and then threw the Poker
in Dept. [..] that Dept. went about about ½ past eight OClock the
next Morning Friday last to the deced house in order to
attend her anusual Dept. not sleeping there that [..]
she got to the house she asked the Deced Servant where her
mistress was that the Servant sayed she was missing and
that she did not know where are was. that on Dept. searching
the deced house the found the deced hanging by a Card




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