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

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Image 221 of 69720th April 1785


City & Liberty
of Westmr . in the
County of Midsex

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Informations taken this Twenty [..]
day of April 1785 at the Parish of St.
George Hanover Square within the Liberty of
Westrm. in the County of Midsex upon an
Inquisition touching the death of Sarah
Robinson
< no role > lying dead in the said Parish
Liberty and County.

Mary Ann Lewis Faleon< no role > Wife of Lewis
Faleon
< no role > a Lodger at Mr. John Robinson< no role > of
Chapel Street in the Parish of St. George Hanr.
Square on her Oath saith That on the Nineteenth
Instant Dept. was in her own Room on the
Second Floor when She heard Sarah Robinson< no role >
the Deced Skreaming out upon which
Dept. came down Stairs and in the Passage on
the Ground Floor saw Deced running about with
her Cloaths on Fire, Says that having,
a Child in her Arms Dept. could not give
her any Assistance, but Deced's Father
& two Brothers come to her and they [..]
endeavoured to put out the Fire but the
Deced was burnt in every part of her
Body from the Breast to the Knees with
her Arms and Hands, Says that the Deced
told this Dept. that she was blowing the Kitchen
Fire, and then found her Cloaths to be on
Fire, Says that the Deced died on the
Twentieth instant in consequence of being
burnt, and that her Death was merely Accidently

Mary Ann Lewis Falcon

Sworn the Day Year and
Place abovementioned before
me

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner




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