Source:  The Weekly Chronicle, 394 8f
Date: 30 March 1844
Place: London

DEATH OF A FORTUNE-TELLER. - On Wednesday forenoon [27 March 1844] Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Bird-cage, Bird-cage-walk, Hackney-road, on the body of Elizabeth Bayliss, aged forty-two, late of 13, Crab-tree-row, Hackney-road. This case was a singular one. The evidence showed that deceased had been twice a widow. Her first husband, named Kirkby, had been a lieutenant in the army, and her second husband, dead about five years, was a painter. Her maiden name was Bingham, and she was respectably connected. Her dissolute habits had ruined her two husbands, and, since the death of the last of them, she cohabited with a man, a singer at “free and easies,” named Pluckrose. She was a fortune-teller of great renown, a sort of Mdlle. le Normand of the east, and frequently as many as a dozen carriages, containing ladies, were to be seem drawn up in the vicinity of her miserable habitation, the occupiers anxiously waiting until the prophetess should think fit to foretel their destiny. It generally happened, whilst her dupes were biding her time, that she was drinking in some neighbouring public-house, rendering herself in appearance a perfect Pythoness, and always refusing to return to her fortune-telling chambers, until she was assured that the number of those who came to consult her was large enough to be profitable. Her son by her first husband, a youth miserably clad, named George Kirkby, said, though for seven years she had been a constant drunkard, her health remained unimpaired. For four months previous to her death, she had been daily intoxicated, and in that state returned home at midnight about a month ago. She fastened the street door after her, and went to bed, saying she would not let Pluckrose in. However, she did not keep her promise, for, on his knocking at the door shortly afterwards, she rose to admit him, and, in ascending the stairs, she rolled down about twenty steps. Witness, having let Pluckrose in, they found deceased at the bottom of the stairs insensible, and they took her to her bed. Next morning, though she spat blood, and complained of a pain in the head, she got up and went out, and continued to drink as deeply as ever until Thursday last, having been brought home with her paramour early that morning, by a policeman, who found them both rolling drunk in the street. From this time she remained insensible, and on Saturday evening she was attended by Mr. Benton, a surgeon, but she died in ten hours afterwards. Mr. Benton, who had made a post mortem examination of the body, said he found a large clot of coagulated blood on the brain, the substance of which was much softened. He considered the fall the immediate cause of death, though it was accelerated by excessive intemperance. Verdict, “Accidental death from a fall, resulting from excessive drinking.”

I think it unlikely that "Pluckrose the paramour" will ever be identified.