City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1785 - 26th December 1785

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Image 70 of 69725th February 1785


City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the
County of Midsex }


Informations taken this Seventeenth
day of March 1785 at the Parish of
St. Martin in the Fields within the
Liberty of Westmr . in the County of
Midsex upon an Inquisition
touching the death of Ann Williams< no role >
lying dead in the said Parish
Librty & County.

Ann Williams< no role > the Wife of John Williams< no role >
a Brick layers, Labourer a Lodging at No. 5
Red Lyon Court in the Parish of St. Martins
in the Fields on her Oath saith, that Ann
Williams
< no role > the Deced cane to Dept. on
FridayKurredthe 25th. day of Febuary last
in the Enquiry, telling her that she was
turned out of her Lodging in Brown's Building
Drurry Lane, and that she had been to
Mr. Butler one of his Majesty's Justices of
the Peace to Swear that she belonged to
the Parish of St. Clement Danes & desired
Dept. to give her leave to it up in her
Lodgings until she got to the work house
which Dept. agrited to and Deced lay
upon the Boards there every Night
until last Saturday the Fifth Instant
Says that on Monday the 28th. February
they went turned of the Overseers of St. Clements
Parish , but Deced was not retured
that day, that the Deced went the next
day, and on her return told Dept. that
Mr. Curtis one of the Overseers had given
her a Shilling, Save that on ThursdaySaturday
Morning. Deced told Dept. that one had an Note Order from
Mr. Pantin an Overseer to go to the
Work houes, and thatthatthey Particed
her down the Stops and would not hear
her, Says tha on Saturday Morning the
Feilds instant Deced Break faster will Dept.
Drunk To a and but some Dry Toast, and
then told Dept. that she would go down on
her




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