Description
A record of Coroner's Inquests or Coroner's Views held by the Coroner or sometimes a Justice of the Peace for earlier inquests.
Printed forms titled "Coroner's Inquisition" or "Coroner's Inquisition or Viewing" provide information including date and place of inquest, name of deceased (parents' name given if child and sometimes racial distinction such as "colored"); date and place of death, findings, and signature of the Coroner or Justice of the Peace. If a coroner's jury was empanelled, names of jury, witnesses, and jury finding entered.
Note 1: Volume/docket "No. 2-29" (1912 May - 2005) is titled "Inquisitions". Inquests for 1890-1912 are recorded in a section (pages 184-363) of the Prothonotary's volume/docket titled "Lunacy Volume #1".
Arrangement: Chronological.
Index: Alphabetical by surname of deceased with page number.
2016 Inventory
VOLUMES ARCHIVES
1. 1890-2005 Vol. 2-29; prior entries in Prothonotary's Lunacy #1 pages 184-363 dated 1890-1912.
Coroner's Office
1. 2005-2012: 4 volumes.(#30-33). End of volume series.
2025 Inventory: 2005-2012: 4 volumes to be transferred to Archives. (Inquisitions Vol 30-33)?
ELECTRONIC 2018-2025.
2025: 2009-2017 original views now in notebooks (called views?) - continues the Inquisition Dockets after 2012.
2006 Inventory notes Volumes 21-30 (1987 Oct - 2006). If scanned Possibly lost in electronic transfer.
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