City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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30th January 1797 - 28th December 1797

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Image 516 of 60724th October 1797


Lucy Wife< no role > of Edward ward< no role > 104 Kent street< no role > Cord wainer
maketh about five oClock Thursday afternoon last Dept went
to Henry Arthur< no role > house and found a person annointing the deced
with Oil which being done Dept came to St Thomas's hospital
with Arthur & the deced and left the deced thereDept were
to the Hospital the next Morning in Company with the Mother of the deced and saw the decedThat she
appeared very much burnt but sensible the Mother & Dept both
asked the deced how she had got burnt the deced sayed
she was putting on a Pint of water over the Fire while she was
doing so her his Cloth caught fire upon which she immediatley
ran into the street and that a Woman put an Apron over her
which put the fire put That her little Brother was in the
Room at the time her Cloaths caught fire That the deced
continued sensible and was so when Dept last saw her which was
on the Friday evening precceding her Death

the Mark of
Lucy [mark] Ward< no role >

Sworn the 24 Octr 1797
before me


T Shelton Corr.




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