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Surname origin
'Man from the west' or 'dweller to the west' of a certain place. Maurice de West 1152-1170 Colchester, Essex.
A Dictionary of English Surnames by P H Reaney. OUP revised third edition 1997. 019860092-5.
Before 1400 the surname mainly occurred in the the coastal district of South West Sussex, Pagham and nearby places such as Shripney and North and South Bersted where there were lands belong to the Archnishop
of Canterbury's manor of Pagham
The surnames of Sussex by Richard McKinley. Leopard's Head Press. 1988. 0 904920 14 3.
Sussex References
for WEST
Sussex surname link
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John WEST of Lindfield married Ann LANGRIDGE ( -1798) at Lindfield in 1758,
they had at least two children:-
- John (1761- ) no descendants noted so far
- Samuel (1764-1825) married
Hannah SCOTT (1789 - 1862) at Lindfield in 1808.
- John (1809 - )
- Elizabeth (1811 - )
- Ann (1813 - ) = Richard EMERY
- Mary (1816 - ) = James TIDEY
- Samuel (1818 - 1888) = Barbara WICKS (c.1822-1887)
- James (1845 - ) = (1) Unknown = (2) Harriet ANSELL
- (2)Edith Sarah (1876 - )
- (2)Henry James (1878 - )
- (2)Ernest C (c.1881 - )
- John (c.1848 - ) = Mary ? (c.1849 - )
- Sarah Elizabeth (1849 - ) = William WOOD (c.1841 - )
- Mary (1858 - )
- William
(1854 - 1913) = Eliza BARTRUP (1851 - 1923) of Great Yeldham, Essex
- George Ambrose (1861 - = Sarah Ann HARRIS (1865 -
- Annie Louisa (1884 - ) = George ?
- Joseph Ambrose (1888 - )
- George William (1890 - )
- John Henry (1892 - 1926) - = Florence HOUNSOME (c.1887 - 1952)
- Rose Margaret (1895 - = Ernest Michael LEONARD (1890 - 1958)
- Minnie Catherine (1899 - 1934) = William Thomas EDWARDS (1898 - 1961)
- Eliza (1825 - )
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