City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1799 - 31st December 1799

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Image 147 of 85818th March 1799


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Information of Witnesses taken at the
Parish of Saint Botolph inst.
Bishopsgate in the Ward of
Bishopsgate in London the 18th.
day of March 1799 on view of
the body of Christian Smith< no role >
there lying dead.

Rebecca Binks< no role > Wife of Peter Binks< no role >
of Angel Alley Bishopsgate Street London
Mariner maketh Oath that about had after
five on Friday afternoon dept on her return
home with her daughter to her House gave
her Lane the Rey of her room which is on the part
floor to go up Stairs & open the door Ster [..] and
went to go up Stairs put sayed she could not
get up because a Woman was sleeping upon
the Stairs. dept then looked upon the Stairs and
saw the deced lying upon them. Dept recollected
the person of the dead & sent for her Sister, but she
was not to be foundafterwards the person came
a Woman of the two Year of Stairs to whom it was
supposed the deced had been goods, & she were and
bros the daur of the deced dept saw the dead was
hurt and blood laying about the deced was sister
dead at this time on died soon afterwards the
deced was a poor Woman & Went out Chairing
for her livehood

Sworn the 18th March 1799
before me
T Shelton Corr.

The Mark of
Rebecca [mark] Binks< no role >




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