City of London Coroners:
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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Image 532 of 8617th April 1792


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Informations of Witnesses taken
at the parish of Saint Sepulchre in the
Ward of Farringdon without in
London aforesaid on the 7th day of
April 1792 on view of the Body of
William Budgh< no role > now here lying dead.

Ann< no role > the Wife of Richard Butler< no role > a Shoe maker and a
Lodger at the house of Thomas Dean< no role > No. 4 Arthur Street
Gaswell Street in the County of Middx maketh Oath that
she hath Nursed the deced William Budgh< no role > an Infant about
eighteen Months old for about eight Weeks past a that
between the hours of four and five in the afternoon of Thursday
last Dept. went out from said House for purpose of buying some
[..] that she left the deced on the floor of her Room (a one
pair of Stairs Room of said House) near the said of the Fire
as she thought perfectly safe-that when Dept. left the
Room the Poker was in the Fire that in a few Minutes
Dept. returned to her Room, Door said discovered [..] a Smoke [..]
issuing from her Room On Dept. going into the Room who perceived the Cloaths of the
deced to be all in a Smoke and burning but no blaze that the
immediately took the Child up from the Floor and on taking it
up she found the poker which she had before left in the Fine
under the Child [..] from which circumstance Dept. is
induced to believe that the poker had by some means fell
out of the Fire upon the Child and being Hot had burned
the Cloaths of the deced-that [..] the Child was
taken end of the House for the purpose of being taken to Saint
Bartholomew's Hospital whose Dept. understood is died about four
OClock yesterday Morning.

Sworn the 7th day of
April 1792 before me}

her
Ann [mark] Butler< no role >
Mark




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