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23rd July 1783 - 1st June 1786

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Image 299 of 44315th April 1786


Phoebe< no role > Wife of John Markham< no role > of Whiteness
Street Butcher up on her Oath Saith That she
is a Mid wife Next she [..] was called in
to the deceased Ann More< no role > on Tuesday
Morning and found that Nature had done
the whole Business that she gave the
deceased and the Child then alive every
assistance in her power and the deceased
Ann Rose< no role > said Oh Mrs Markham I cant
live that One Elizabeth Rose< no role > who felched the
deponent said the Business is doneand the
deceased then said (in answer to Deponents
obrewing she was not at her time) No she
was not and she shod. not have been so,
if it had not been owing to her Husbands
Sister using her ill and Said that if it
had not been for Sarah Robinson< no role > interfering
she the deceased should have been Murdered
between them both (meaning as Deponent suppores
Richard Lewis< no role > and his Sister) and Saith
a Child so prematurely brot. forth cannot
live. And that a fever ensued in consequence
of the sd. Ann Roses being do delivered which
carried her Death

Phebe Markham< no role >




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