City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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City and Liberty of Westminster
in the County of Middlesex }


Informations taken on
Oath this First day of February 1792
on View of the Body of Margaret
Jones
< no role > lying dead in the Parish
of St. John the Evangelist
Westminster

James Hunt< no role > Servant to Mr. Lucas on Millbank Mealman on
his Oath saith, That Yesterday Morng. between nine and Ten o'Clock
Deponent was in Mr. Lucas's Wharf and saw Deced in the Mud
under the Head of a Barge on Milbank in the Parish of St. John
the Evangelist Westmr. that he acquainted Mr. Higgs the Lighterman
and other People who pull'd out the Deced. the Tide ebling Deponent
being present and Deced appeared to be dead & that he observed no
Marks of Violence upon the Body, that it is possible the Deced
might have come down Mr. Higgs's Wharf and might either
fall in by Accident or drown herself

The Mark of [mark] James Hunt< no role >

Charles Randall< no role > of Providence Court No. 3 Peter Street Westmr.
on his Oath saith that Yesterday Morng. Dept. was at Mr. Lucas's Wharf and
saw the Deced under the Head of a large the Tide then ebling
that she was in the Mud in the River Thames about Four
Yards from the Shore that he assisted to take the Deced to the




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