Certain Mail Bastard Child

Description: 
Certain Mail Bastard Child
Sex: 
Male
Parent(s): 
Martha McConathy
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say on these oaths that the said child came to its death either by being smothered or for the want of that attention which was necessary to sustain life and which was Intentionally withheld from it. And that the mother of the child (viz) Martha McConathy was the principle in the crime and that Isabelah McConathy Accessory to it.

COD Short Description: 
bastard child killed by its mother
Original Record: 
2330

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