West Family Tree

After taking early retirement, my grandfather, Fred West, spent some time investigating the family history (genealogy). He only traced the male West line, but he did trace it back to the 15th century. This is more remarkable because there is no noble blood evident in the line, and so having been educated enough to read and write over that period is some achievement.

The earliest traceable origins of the family seem to be in and around Sibsey in Lincolnshire, though a substantial part of the family history is in near by Wrangle. During the industrial revolution there was a move to St Helens in Lancashire for our branch of the family, with increased mobility thereafter.

One thing that struck me forcibly in transcribing the tree into something I could conveniently put on the web was the high levels of infant mortality in past centuries, and indeed the generally slim chance of living to what would now be a normal retirement age.

The conventions I have used are:

- Ancestors are to the left, descendants to the right.

- Siblings are in a vertical column.

- Where there was more than one marriage, the partners of the first marriage are in a square together. The children go from the next square right upwards. The second partner is in a square on their own, and the children of that marriage go from the next square to the right and downwards.

- The direct line from me is in red.

The West Family Tree, sometime of Sibsey in Lincolnshire

Researched and developed by Fred West
Transcription and minor additions by Matthew West

                                             
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 Joseph West
1816 - ?
Gas fitter		 
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1849 - 1882
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  William West
1817 - 1857		 
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1853 - 1854		                    
                                                                  
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 Mary West
1818 - ? 
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  Harriet West
1854 - 1905
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Fred Child
1853 - ?
Coachman		                    

  John West
c1470 - c1540
Yeoman of Sibsey
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 Isobel West
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Thomas Smyth
                                     
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 John West
1678 - 1678
             
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  Elizabeth West
1760 - ?
= 1787
Edward Ward
of Whaplode
     
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  Sarah West
1820 - 1906
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John White
Hairdresser Louth
 
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  John Hides West
1856 - 1916
Farm Foreman
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Martha Mattson
1855		                    

John West
? - 1567
=
Isabel Cooper
Widow
 




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John Cooper
 
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Richard West
? - 1580
Sibsey
= 1565
Eleanor Neal
                             
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1680 - ?
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 John West
1761 - 1773 		     
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 Henry West
1821 - ?
Farmer
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  Elizabeth Ann West
1859 - 1944
= 1883
Thomas Wattam
1856 - ?
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Thomas Munck
? - 1575
Yeoman of Sibsey
= 1565
Margaret West
 
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Margaret West
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 Mary West 
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1651 - 1669 		 
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 Mary
1682 - 1682 		     
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 Margaret West
1719 - 1719		     
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 Mary West
1763 - 1780		     
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  Elizabeth West
1823 - 1903
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Wm. M. Underwood
Tailor		 
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  James West
1861 - 1947
Railway Guard
= Eliza		 
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 James Samuel West
1898 - ?
Fitter and Schoolmaster
= 1922
Lily Alesia Colquitt
1896 - ?
 
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 Joan Elsie West
1923 -
= 1942
Leonard Lockhart 
1910 -
Transport Administration		 
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  Barry Lockhart
1944 -
Chiropodist
= 1966
Brenda Webster
1944 -		        

Thomas West
c1470 - c1540
Yeoman of Sibsey
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Richard West
c1500 - 1575
Yeoman of Sibsey
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Thomas West
c1530 - c1583
Yeoman of Sibsey
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Dorothy Ormsby
? - 1587
 
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 John West
c1569 - 1609
Yeoman of Sibsey
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Mary
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John West
c1590 - c1650
Yeoman of Sibsey
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Mary Lowes
? - 1628
of Wrangle,
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 John West
1624 - 1672
Yeoman of Wrangle
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Margaret
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c1654 - 1718
Yeoman of Wrangle
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1683 - 1717
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Francis Tinsley
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Yeoman of Wrangle		 
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 Sarah West
1691 - 1724
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Richard Brown
1685 - 1760 		 
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 Elizabeth West
1720 - 1720		 
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 Elizabeth West
1723 - 1762		 
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  Frances West
1768 - 1768		     
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  Eliza West
1824 - 1901
=
Is. Elsom
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1861 - 1861 		 
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  Matthew Richard West
1953 -  
BSc, PhD
Chemical Engineer
= 1976
Lydia Beatrice West
1952 -
MB, ChB, DRCOG, MRCGP, DFFP
General Practitioner
 
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 Naomi West
1983 -

David West
1987

    
  
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Margaret West
        

= 1613
Thomas North
Mercer of Louth
 
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 Nathaniel West
c1593 - ?
Weaver of Sibsey
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Elizabeth
? - 1632
 



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1623 - 1624		     
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 Luke West
c1626 - 1679
Handicraftsman of Sibsey
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Mary
? - 1668
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Joan		  

=(2)
Mary Day
? - 1706
 
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John West
1692 - 1751
Householder of Wrangle
"in ye low grounds"
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Elizabeth
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1721 - 1721 		 
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 Mary West
1726 - 1727		 
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  Christopher West
1769 - 1787		 
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 John West
1806 - 1837
Soldier
East India Co.		 
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 Edward West
1826 - 1901
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A. Underwood
1829 - ? 		 
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1863 - 1895 		 
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Roger West
1926 -
M.A. Physicist
= (1) 1951
Divorced 1961
Beryl Hyde
1927 - 2005
 
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Barbara West
1955 -
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Clive Potter
1951 -  
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Donna Young
 
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1979 -
(Jenna Fraser
1979 - )

Philip Potter
1984 -


Aidan		 
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Owen Fraser
1997 -


Daniel Fraser
2002 -
  
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Henry West
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Agnes Busche
             
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Unknown
c1596 - ?
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Nathaniel West
1641 - 1719
 
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1625 - 1625		     
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c1628
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Frances
? - 1764
 
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 John West
1733 - 1793
Farmer of Wrangle
= 1758
Joanna Jessop
1740 - 1793
 
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 William West
1771 - 1813
Tenant Farmer, Wrangle
= 1796
Anne Thompson 		 
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  Mary West
1807 - 1810		 
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 Joanna West
!828 - 1873 		 
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 Mary Jane West
1863 - 1895 		 
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Frederick West
1900 - 1981
J.P., M.A. Ph.D.
Headmaster
= 1924
Lydia Mary Anstey
1898 - ?
 
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Janet Willkinson
1937 - 2004
Music Teacher
 
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1962
BSc
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(Divorced and remarried)
Denise Patton		 
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Gregory Patton
1986

Katie Patton
1988

    
  
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Alexander West
? - 1563
Yeoman of Sibsey
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Isabel
 
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Sisily West

Ann West
         
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Richard West
c1599 - ?
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William West
1627 - 1629
 
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1627 - 1629		                 
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  Mary West
1699 - ?		 
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 Sarah West
1728 - 1787
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1728 - 1797		     
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  Susan West
1774 - 1774		 
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1809 - 1820		 
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!829 - 1917 		 
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1865 - 1885		 
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1968		    
                  
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Andrew West
1601 - 1621
Apprentice at Lincoln
     
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1632 - 1694
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Dorothy
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Thomas West
1701 - 1740
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Sarah
1706 - 1786 
 
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1731 - 1744		     
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 John West
1775 - 1775 		 
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  George West
1812 - c1890
Cordwainer
= 1837
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James West
1831 - 1911
Farm Bailiff
= 1853
Harriet Taylor
1829 - 1912
 
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1868 - 1922
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George Nicholson
1896 - ?
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Daughter
c1603 - ?
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Sarah Porter
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1691 - 1692		             
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1704 - 1704 		 
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1735 - 1736 		     
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John West
1780 - 1869
Victualler of Wrangle
= (1) 1806
Jane Baker
1787 - 1813 
 
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1813 - 1819		 
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1833 - 1833		 
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William Frederick West
1870 - 1926
Foreman Platelayer
= 1895
Mary Ann Whitt
1872 - 1958
 
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1929 - 1996
M.A. Lecturer
= 1957
Vera MacKenzie
1927 -
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1961 -
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Christopher John Bertram

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1993 - 

(Vivienne) Ruth Bertram 
1996 - 

    
                  
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Thomas West
1605 - 1606
                         
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1704 - 1722		 
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1737 - 1764
Miller of Leake 		     
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Elizabeth Hall
1797 - 1875 
 
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1834 - 1838		 
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1872 - 1956
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T. Johnson
1927 - ?
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 George West
1902 - 1903

Alfred West
1902 - 1903 		     
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1967 -  		        
                  
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Thomas West
1607 - ?
                             
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1740 - 1742 		     
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1793 - 1854
Toll Gate Keeper
= 1808
Ann Lea		     
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1837 - 1926
Rope maker		 
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 George West
1874 - 1954
Sadler 		 
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Gladys Phoebe West
1914 -
= 1939
John Large
1912 -
Education Administration
 
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1940 -
BSc Chemical Engineer
= 1962
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1875 - 1962
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1969 -  		        
                                                                      
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1877 - 1955
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Jack Cordon
1878 - 1963
Railway Porter		         
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1971 -