City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1784 - 29th December 1784

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Image 22 of 7065th January 1784


Mr. Cranage saying it was still born
Says that he looke up the Child that
Evening with Mr. Atkins the Beadle
and the Child was brought to the Marry
Waterman , the other Child being carried
to the same House. Says that he observed
no Marks of violence upon either of the
said Children

John Barker< no role >
[mark]
his Mark

Henry Jarvis< no role > of Mary's Buildings
Surgeon on his Oath saith That he this
day Examined a Male Child, and a Female
Child at the the Sign of the Marry Waterman
and found no Marks of violence upon
either of them, Says that he opened the
Children and tried the Experiment of
the Lungs, That the Lungs sunk in the Water
and Dept. believes that Both the Children
were still born.

Henry Jarvis< no role >

Mary Barker< no role > Wife of John Barker< no role > on her
Oath saith That on Saturday Morning last
Dept. was informed that a Child lay upon the
Causeway at the bottom of Charles Court
upon which she went there saw the Child
lying upon the see there and gave two
Boys a Penny for bringing it to the Shore
Says that she took the Child to the Place
where she Works in Hungerford Washed it
and in the Evening carried it to Mr. Atkins
the Beadle, who went with her to the
Workhouse in St. Martins Lane , but the
Governorer refused to take in the Child talking
Dept. that she must carry it to the Publick
House

nearest to the Place she brought if from
and Dept. accordingly carried the Child to
the Marry Watermen in Charles Court
where she left it.

Mary Barker< no role >
[mark]
her Mark

Severally Sworn the Day
Year & Place above
mentioned before me
Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner }




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