'West03'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: West of Little Bretton, West of Underbank, West of Wath
John West of Wath or Waith, Yorkshire (a 1455) | |||||||||||||||
m. Agnes Iveson (dau/heir of William Iveson of Wath) | |||||||||||||||
1. | Richard West of Wath & Stainborough | ||||||||||||||
A. | Robert West of Wath (a 1516) | ||||||||||||||
m. Anne Freshfield (dau of Piers Freshfield) | |||||||||||||||
i. | Thomas West of Wath & Little Bretton (a 1564) the first mentioned by Walker | ||||||||||||||
BLG1952 identifies both Thomas and his son John as of Underbank, Wath & Little Bretton. Walker, which identifies him as 'of High Hoyland', reports that it was his great-grandson Stephen who "purchased Underbank, Penistone, about 1680". | |||||||||||||||
a. | John West of Little Bretton (elder son) | ||||||||||||||
m. Elizabeth Hurst | |||||||||||||||
(1) | Francis West of Wath 'of Hunshelf' (a 1584, 1633, eldest son) | ||||||||||||||
m. Elizabeth West (dau of Thomas West of Upton) | |||||||||||||||
(A) | John West (b 1596, a 1612, d unm) | ||||||||||||||
(B) | Stephen West of Underbank & Wath (a 1664, d unm) | ||||||||||||||
(C) | Lewis West of Underbank & Wath (b 1607, d 1668, Archdeacon of Carlisle) | ||||||||||||||
m. Frances Marsh (d 12.10.1663, dau of Richard Marsh, Dean of York, by Thomasine Stephens of Hertfordshire) | |||||||||||||||
(i) | Richard West of Underbank & Wath (b 1646, d 01.01.1715, Captain) | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Richardson (dau of _ Richardson, alderman of York) | |||||||||||||||
(a) | Frances West of Underbank & Wath (b 1673-7, d 11.06.1754) | ||||||||||||||
m. William Fenton of Hunslet & Underbank (b 1685, d 23(15?).08.1743) | |||||||||||||||
(ii) | Lewis West of York & North Duffield (b c1640, d 29.10.1708) | ||||||||||||||
m. Dorcas Jackson (b c1655, d 29.08.1732) | |||||||||||||||
(a) | Lewis West | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Furness | |||||||||||||||
((1)) | Lewis West (dsp 1739) | ||||||||||||||
(b) | Elizabeth West (bpt 21.05.1688, bur 28.05.1772) | ||||||||||||||
m. (24.09.1716) Peter Johnson of York (d 08.03.1762) | |||||||||||||||
((1)) | Peter Johnson (bpt 29.10.1719, d 03.08.1796, Recorder of York) | ||||||||||||||
m. _ Pyatt | |||||||||||||||
((A)) | Dorothea Johnson (d 21.06.1792) | ||||||||||||||
m. (09.04.1767) Sir John Eden, 4th Bart of Bishop Auckland (d 1812) | |||||||||||||||
((B))+ | "Several children, all died young" | ||||||||||||||
((2)) | Lewis Johnson (bpt 23.09.1718, a 1776) | ||||||||||||||
((3)) | Mary Johnson | ||||||||||||||
m. John Lloyd (vicar of Rotherham) | |||||||||||||||
((A)) | Ann Lloyd | ||||||||||||||
m. Henry Jubb of York (apothecary) | |||||||||||||||
((B)) | Henrietta Lloyd | ||||||||||||||
m. Ralph Tunnicliffe in Rotherham | |||||||||||||||
(iii) | daughter | ||||||||||||||
(iv) | Bridget West | ||||||||||||||
m. Christopher Driffield of Ripon | |||||||||||||||
(a) | Charles Driffield (vicar of Featherstone) | ||||||||||||||
(v) | Anne West | ||||||||||||||
m. Nathaniel Sutton (rectror of Burghwallis) | |||||||||||||||
(vi) | Catherine West | ||||||||||||||
m. John Hutchinson (bur 26.01.1679, vicar of Morland) | |||||||||||||||
(a)+ | issue - Philip Lewis, Frances | ||||||||||||||
(D) | Anne West | ||||||||||||||
m. William Smithson of Chingford | |||||||||||||||
The following comes from Visitation (Foster, Yorkshire, 1612, West of Hunshelf). | |||||||||||||||
(2) | Jane West | ||||||||||||||
m. George Webster | |||||||||||||||
(3) | Mary West | ||||||||||||||
m. Robert or Thomas Skyers of Alderthorp | |||||||||||||||
Main source(s): BLG1952 (De Wend-Fenton of Underbank), Walker's Yorkshire Pedigrees (1942, West of Hunshelf, Woolley and Underbank; Johnson of York)
[The section on the Wests of Amberden, Aughton & Firbeck has been moved into West04.]
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