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West family of Burpham and Storrington, Sussex - an overview

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

    Richard WEST, husbandman of Burpham (-1759) married Sarah PROCTOR (1712? - 1781) at Findon on the 15th April 1734, by licence.
    They had children

    • Sarah (1734 - )
    • Richard (1736 - 1737)X
    • William (1738-?)
    • Mary (1740-
    • William(1744 - 1819) = Mary PANNATT (c.1753 - 1813)
      • William (1774 - 1840) = Sarah BROWNE (1773 - 1858)
        • Henry (1806 - 1826)
        • William (1808 - 1881) = 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 (1837 - 1890) = Henry WEST (c.1823 - 1870) (cousins)
          • Charles Arthur NEWMAN(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 (1861 - 1943)
          • Jane (1862 - 1924) (2)   = George COOPER (1861 - 1941)
          • Elizabeth (1865 - 1866)
          • George (1866 - 1948) = Mary Arnold LAMPRELL (1866 - 1958)
            • Mabel Jane (1892 - 1898)
            • Maud Mary (1894 -1895)
            • Sidney George (1895 - 1957)
            • Harold Edward (1900 - liv. 1938) = Alice Edith DAVIES
        • Eliza (1826 - 1904)
      • Ann (c.1780 - 1862) = Charles MUSTON (c.1787 - 1872)
        • Charles MUSTON (c.1814 - ?)
        • Ann MUSTON (c.1816 - ) = George PRIDDY
        • Sarah MUSTON (c.1821 - )
        • Elizabeth MUSTON (c.1821 - ) = Charles HANSOM
        • James MUSTON (c.1821 - ?)
      • Catherine (1782)X
      • George (1784 - 1865) = (1) Elizabeth MARCH (c.1787 - 1814) = (2) Sarah HILL ( - <1851
        • (1)George (c.1811 - )
        • (1)Elizabeth(c.1812 - )
        • (2)Ann (c.1818 - )
        • (2)Caroline (c.1820 )
        • (2)Elizabeth (c.1822 - )
      • Richard (1785)x
      • Richard (1788 - 1866) = (1) Hannah HARD (c.1790 - 1814) = (2) Elizabeth WALLS (1793 - 1879)
        • (1) Richard (1813 - 1814)X
        • (2) William (1817 - 1885) = Frances HERYAT (c.1822 - )
          • William (1843 - )
          • George (1845 - )
          • John (1847 - )
          • Elizabeth (1849)
          • Henry (1851 - )
          • Ellen (1853 - )
          • James (1855 - )
          • Ann (1858 - )
          • Alfred (1860 - )
        • (2) Henry (1818 - ) = Elizabeth SMITH (c.1819 - )
        • (2) Richard (1819 - )
        • (2) Mary Ann (1820 - )
        • (2) Peter (1822 - 1908) = Maria CHIPPER (c.1825- )
          • Caroline (1853-1892) = Henry BRYANT
          • Alma (1855 - )
          • Edward (1857 - )
          • Mary (1861- )
        • (2) Reuben (1824 - )
        • (2) Sarah (1825 - )
        • (2) Charles (1828 - ) = Elizabeth TUPP
        • (2) Mary Ann (1832 - ) = George HOLDEN
        • (2) Ellen (1833 - ) = George LINBERRY (c. 1832 - )
      • Peter (1787 - 1860) = Elizabeth HENLY (1783 - )
      • James (1790 - 1875) = Mary WILMER (1793 - 1877)
        • Edward (1816 - 1874) = Sarah  WALDER (1814 - 1878)
          • Mary Anne (1838 - 1888)
          • Alfred Edward (1841 - 1862)
          • Walter Walder (1843 - 1873) = Harriett Jane MITCHELL (1848 - ) == (2) Walter JENMAN
            • Edith (c.1870 - )
          • Emily Bridget (1845 - 1846)x
          • Henry Compton (1847 - 1854)x
          • James Albert (1849 - ) = Sarah Ann WEBSTER (C. 1845 - )
            • Alfred (c.1871 - )
            • Minnie (c.1873 - )
            • Helena (c.1875 - )
            • Mary L (c.1879 - )
            • Florence (1887 - )
            • Percy (1889 - )
          • George Wilmer (1851 - ) = Mary REEKES
          • Ellen M (c.1880 - )
          • Ellen Sarah (c.1854 - )
          • William Henry (1856 - 1922) = Martha BRIGDEN
          • John
        • Peter (1818 - 1888) = Eliza LUCK (1835 - 1868)
          • Eliza Ellen (1860 - 1868)
          • Alfred Ernest (1865 - 1938) = Annie SAINSBURY (c.1865 - )
            • Lesley Alfred (c.1890 - 1909)
            • Dudley Arthur (c.1894 - )
            • Leonard Ernest (c.1898 - )
        • Ellen (1820 - 1854)
        • Henry (1823 - 1870) = Sarah Jane NEWMAN (1837 - 1890) (cousins)
          • Kate Jane (c.1861 - 1932)
          • Charles Newman (1865 - ) = Eleanor Elizabeth CULLENDER
          • Florence (1866 - )
          • Alfred (1868 - )
          • Mary Emma (1869 - 1870)X
          • Margaret Ellen (1871 - )
        • James (1826 - 1884) = Emma (BEDSER) (c.1820 - 1864)
          • Mary (1849 - )
          • James (1850)X
          • Emily Jane (1851 - )
        • Emma (1832 - 1867) = George BATTCOCK (c.1832 - )
          • Mary Elizabeth BATTCOCK (1860 - )
          • Ellen BATTCOCK (1862 - )
          • Annie BATTCOCK (1865 - )
      • Henry (1794 - Living 1820)
    • Thomas (1746 - ) = Mary SANDERS ( - 1796)
    • Ann (1748 - )
    • Elizabeth (1752 - )

This page last updated 2nd January 2017
©Peter Cox 1998
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