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.

Raymond West's website for West in Cowfold, Henfield, Rackham and Shermanbury

Sussex References
for WEST

Sussex surname link

Richard WEST, husbandman of Burpham (-1759) married Sarah PROCTOR (1712? - 1781) at Findon on the 15th April 1734, by licence.
They had children
• Mary (1740-
• William(1744 - 1819) = Mary PANNATT (c.1753 - 1813)
  • William (1774 - 1840) = Sarah BROWNE (1773 - 1858)
    • Henry (1806 - 1826)
    • William (1808 - ) = Ellen LOCK (1813 - )
    • Ann (1810 - ) = Matthew LAKER
    • John Champion (1816 - 1896) = Jane STRINGER
      • Anne (1843 - 1875)
      • Jane (1847 - = Reuben MITCHELL
      • George (1843 -
      • Sarah (1845 - 1849)
      • John Champion (1850 -
      • Esther (1852 - = William GILES
      • Ellen (1854 -
      • William (1856 -
  • Mary (1775 - 1817) = John EEDE (1777 - 1847) = (2) Anna LINFIELD (c.1785 - 1858)
  • Thomas (1779 - 1833) = Ann MITCHELL (1782 - 1849)
    • Mary (1812-1896) =  Charles NEWMAN (1798 - )
      • Mary Ann (c.1836 - ) = Herbert Horatio HUMPHREY
      • Sarah Jane NEWMAN (c.1837 - )
      • Charles (c. 1839 - ) = Annie RICHMOND (c.1853 - )
      • James NEWMAN (1840 - ) = Harriett CORRAGE (c.1831 - )
      • Emma NEWMAN (c.1844 - )
      • Maria Eliza NEWMAN (c. 1846 - 1899)
    • Sarah (1813 - 1899)
    • James (1815 - 1839)
    • Peter (1818 - 1819)
    • Ann (1819 - 1897)
    • Thomas (1824 - 1904)
    • George (1824 - 1904) = Ann KNIGHT (1829 - 1914)
      • Mary Ann (1858 - 1887) (1)   = George COOPER ( - 1941)
        • Mary Ann COOPER (1887 - 1975) = Arthur Henry FITT (1890 - 1954)
          • Irene FITT = Alfred John William Cox
      • Jane (1862 - 1924) (2)   = George COOPER ( - 1941)
      • George (1866 - ) = Mary ? (.1867 - )
    • Eliza (1826 - 1904)
  • Ann (c.1780 - ) = Charles MUSTON (c.1787 - )
  • Catherine (1782)
  • George (1784 - ) = (1) Elizabeth MARCH (c.1787 - 1814) = (2) Sarah HILL
    • George (c.1811 - )
    • Elizabeth(c.1822 - )
  • Richard (1785 -
  • Peter (1787 - = Elizabeth HENLY
  • James (1790 - = Mary WILMBER
    • Edward (1816 - 1874) = Sarah  WALDER (1814 - 1878)
      • Mary Anne (1838 - 1888)
      • Alfred Edward (1841 - 1862)
      • Walter Walder (1843 - )
      • Emily Bridget (1845 - 1846)
      • Henry Compton (1847 - 1854)
      • James (1849 - )
      • George Wilmer (1851 - )
      • Ellen (c.1854 - )
      • William Henry (1856 - 1922) = Martha BRIGDEN
      • John
    • Peter (1818 - 1888) = Eliza LUCK (1835 - )
      • Eliza Ellen (1860 - )
      • Alfred Ernest (1865 - ) = Annie SAINSBURY (c.1865 - )
        • Lesley (c.1890 - )
        • Dudley (c.1894 - )
        • Leonard (c.1898 - )
    • Ellen (1820 -
    • Henry (1823 - ) = Sarah Jane ?
    • James (1826 - ) = Emily BENTLEY
    • Emma (1832 - ) = George BATTCOCK
  • Henry (1794 -
• Thomas (1746-)
• Ann (1748-)
• Elizabeth 1752 -