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

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but did not think she was so near her time
she then told him a Fellow Servant who
had lived with her at Kennington had
been connected with her and was the Father
of the Child but this Deponent never had
seen any Man come to her [..] he has
been at his Lodgings that as the Child
could not be found this Deponents Wife
[..] made deligent Search in the cellar
and appartments of the house on the Monday
but could not find it, that on Tuesday the
seventh Instant when he came home to
Dinner his wife told him she had found
the Child in the Privy

Danl. Ayres< no role >

No.2


Hannah< no role > the Wife of Daniel Ayres< no role > of
No. 4 Middlesex Court Drury Lane being
sworn deposeth that about eight o'Clock
on Monday Morning last (the sixth
Instant) her Niece Diana Chettell< no role > knocked
at her Chamber Door and this Deponent
being in Bed, rose and let her into the
Room when the said Diana Chettell sat
down at the Foot of the Bed and sat they a long Pair without [..] a word and being
come somer then [..] (for that she
came from Mr Crosford in Moore Yard
every Morningand stood but not so dealy
and said to stay with them in Middlesex
Court all day this Deponent being time appleworth a bed her
how it happend she came so much
sooner than usual and she replied that
she had been on an Errard for her
Brother and when Breakfast was ready in the next Room
this Deponent asked if she was not coming
to break fast, where upon she came out of the
Room she asked this Deponent for a Piece
of Flannell which she soon had and went
back again into the Bed Chamber and whiped
some thing up from off the Floor but what
it was this Deponent Knew not, then
she came back into the break fast Room
and took up a Cloth and went to the Glass
and




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