Series Details:
CORONER INQUESTS

Description

Reports of inquests filed in the Clerk of Courts Office regarding dead bodies. Information includes where the inquest took place, date of inquest; names of the deceased, the coroner and jurors; jury findings as to cause and circumstances of death; costs; and signatures of coroner and jurors.

Note 1: 1918, 1920-1934 missing, but recorded in related dockets and papers listed below.

Arrangement: Chronological by report date.

Index: None. Click "inventory" for list of holdings.

Related Records: Prothonotary Volumes 1. LUNACY AND INQUISITIONS DOCKET Vol. 1 (1890-1912)

Coroner's Volumes 2. INQUISITION DOCKETS 1912-2005

Clerk Courts Volumes 3. QUARTER SESSSIONS DOCKETS

Clerk Courts Papers 4. QUARTER SESSIONS MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS Series 2 (1909-1961). Only

1909-1916 cover Coroner's Inquests

Orphans' Court Papers 5. CORONERS INQUESTS Notes of Testimony 1936-1939

Details

Dates 1769 … 1934
Format Papers
Quantity 1.5 cu. ft.
Location Cumberland County;