When John West was born on 15 July 1732, in Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Martin West Jr, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Spafforth, was 37. He married Ellen Inman on 31 December 1759, in St Sampson, York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1813, in Addingham, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 81, and was buried in Addingham, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
English and German: from Middle English, Middle High German west ‘west’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a habitational name for someone who had migrated from further west.
Americanized form of Finnish Vesterinen: from the personal name Vesteri (a short form of Sylvester ) + the surname suffix -nen.
History: This name was brought to North America independently by many bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Thomas West, 12th Baron De La Warre, was captain general of Virginia in 1610–11. The state of DE is named for him. One of the earliest permanent settlers was Francis West (1606–92), who came to Duxbury, MA, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in or before 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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