City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1797 - 29th December 1797

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Image 159 of 7926th March 1797


and went away That on the tenth of last
Month one of her Friends came and paid
the deceased in the Presence of this Deponent
five Pounds being two Quarters Allowence
out of which the other paid that Deponent
one Pound six Shillings being lat for her
Lodging and that at Saturday morning
last this Deponent went into the Room
with Mr Young the Parish Beadle
and under the Bed they found one Guinea
in Gold [..]
amongst the filth and Dust

Odiah Bish

Richard Simmonds< no role > the Surgeon to St Martins
Work house being sworn deposeth that her
he has received the body of the deceased and
finds no marks of Violence what ever but
that she was in a very [..] emaciated State
and that she died a natural death

Ricd Simmons< no role >

No.2

Thomas Fish< no role > of Salisbury Street Strand
Bricklayer being sworn deposeth that the
deceased was his wife's sister and that Mrs
Nash came on Friday morning last and told
him that Martha Morgan< no role > was dead upon
which he went [..] Afternoon and saw that
she was dead and he put on a Padlock and
then went to Mr Bishop of Aldersgate
thatwho [..] paid the deceased the sum
of £20 Pr Ann [..] and asked him if
he would gave any Direction about her
Funeral and offerd to pay a part of it
who declared he would take no Steps
whatever but that the Parish might
bury her

Thos. Fish< no role >

Elizabeth Meggett< no role > at No 48 New North
Street Red Lion Square being sworn deposeth
that she is Sister to the deceased and that
the




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