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 the volume/docket titled "Lunacy #1" kept by the Prothonotary's Office.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Index: Alphabetical by surname of deceased with page number.