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

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Image 557 of 6074th November 1797


London-Deposition of Witnesses taken at London
that is to say, at the parish of Saint Catherine
Cree in the Ward of Aldgate in London
aforesaid this 4th. day of November 1797
on view of the body of Elizabeth Gibbs< no role > now
here lying Dead

Ann Wife of James Gibbs< no role > of No. Aryel Court Leadenhall Street
Taylor maketh Oath between nine & ten on Tuesday Morning last
Dept. last her House to go to Market and left the deced he Daus
who was aboutorthree years of Age and a Little Boy [..] ten with hee in the lower Room a fire in the
Room-Dept. has a man & his Wife who lodge in the one pair
of Stairs whom Dept. believes were at Home at the time
That in about half an house Dept. returnedand found the Street
Door open
to the end of the Court where she lives with a Load
upon her head and a Woman standing there [..] sayed to
Dept. your Child in Dead-Dept. got her Load off her head &
went to he house and finding her Street Door open she went
up [..] nd down the Court & seeing some people opposite a house in
the Court Dept. Went in upon going in the Child cryed one
and suyed [..] my Mammy My [..] llammy-that a Dorton
having been sent for came Dept. took the Child in her Lop
and asked the deced how she came to go to the fine. the deced
sayed she went to the fire to warm her frock-That the
Surgeon examined the deced while the was in Depts. Lap that
she was very much burned on the left side from her Cheek
downwards to her [..] That the deced lived until
yesterday afternoon between four & five when she departed this
Life-

Died 3rd Novr.

Ann Gibbs< no role >




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