The Westray Family E - H

Edward Gifford Westray

Born: 31/12/1895 (Nottingham)

Died: 1970

Father: George William Charles Westray (B. 1865)

Mother: Mary Ann Levina White (d. 1905)

Married: Emily Parker (28/10/1892-1969) in 1919.

Second Married: Ida Swanser in 1969

Children: Mary B (Doreen) (1920-1926), Dennis (b. 1928) and Brian (1931)

Worked as a telephone engineer for Ericsons. He also form his own company Grant and Taylor of London. He left home in 1910, moved to London 1926

Ida Remarried in 1973 to James G Farrant

Edward Gifford Westray (left) with Emily and son Dennis on Dennis' wedding day 1953

  Edward Gifford Westray age 65

Emily Westray (nee Parker) aged 60

Edward Henry Westray

Born: 14/5/1885 (birth certificate)

Father: Walter Henry (b.1852) (Child No.1)

Mother: Annie Elizabeth Tose (b. 1853)

Born at 20 Peters Lane, Cowcross Street, Saffon Hill Holborn

Ellen Westray

Born 21/7/1821

Baptised St Andrews Holborn 16/8/1821. As a spinster she was married aged 45 on 17 Feb 1865. Gave her name as Emily on Marriage documents.

Father: George Jacob Westray (b. 1786) (ChildNo.4)

Mother: Frances Byrne (1783-1843)

Married: Steven Perry (b.1805) in 1865 occupation Porter

As a spinster she was married aged 45 on 17 Feb 1865. Gave her name as Emily on Marriage documents. This was Steven Perry’s second marriage.

Ellen Adeline Westray

Born: 24/11/1889 (birth certificate)

Father: Walter Henry (b.1852) (Child No.2)

Mother: Annie Elizabeth Tose (b. 1853)

Born in Holborn

Eliza Westray

Baptised: 1813

Father: George Jacob Westray (b. 1786) (ChildNo.2)

Mother: Frances Byrne (1783-1843)

Married: John Hayes on 15/6/1833

Elizabeth Westray

Baptised: 1638 Bridekirk Cumberland

Father: Johannis Westray

Mother: Agneta Thomson (1595)

Elizabeth Amelia Westray

Born: 6/8/1880 (birth certificate)

Died: 1880

Father: Charles Christopher Westray (b.1849) (Child No.7)

Mother: Martha Voller

Born in 9 Pitman Street, Camberwell

Elizabeth Alice Westray

Born: 1913

Died: 1995

Married: Thomas Sherwood in 1938 in Camberwell

Father: William Henry Westray (b.1873) (Child No.4)

Mother: Harriet Hudson (b.1873)

No Children

Lived at 100 Cranston Road, Forest Hill, South London

Elizabeth (Betty) Florence Winfield Westray

Born: 10/1/1928

Father: Alfred Ernest Westray (1891)

Mother: Florence Winfield (18/9/1892)

Married: George (Bill) Henry Ford (15/5/1925 - 26/7/1994) on 4/3/1947

Children: Wesley William (4/5/1948), Douglas Kenneth (4/5/1951), Wayne Edward (30/4/1952), Trevor Henry (12/7/1953) and Desmond John (11/1/1956).

Link to the Ford Family

Elizabetha Westray

Baptised: 1667 Bridekirk Cumberland

Father: Henry Westray

Mother: unknown

Married: unknown

Elizabetha Westray

Baptised: 1675 Bridekirk Cumberland

Father: Thomas Westray

Mother: Elizabetha Sergeant

Elizabeth Alice Westray

Born: 17/5/1868 (birth certificate)

Marriage: Tom Bethall Toop 17/2/1889 St Jude, Mapperley, Nottingham

Father: George Henry Westray (Child No. 3)

Mother: Sarah Kebbell (b. 1845)

Born 11 Henrietta Street, Bloomsbury London. Married 17/12/1889, Nottingham. Migrated to Australia early 1900s

Elizabeth Frances Westray

Born: 11/7/1847 in Clerkenwell (birth certificate)

Father: William Henry Christopher Westray (b.1819) (Child No.4)

Mother: Mary Harding

Elizabeth Westray

Born: 1944

Father: John Morris Westray (1904-1969)

Mother: Miss Anderson

Married: Michael Quinn in 1962 in Newcastle

Emily Ada Westray

Born: 8/11/1870 in Islington (birth certificate)

Died:1871

Father: George Henry Westray (Child No. 4)

Mother: Sarah Kebbell (b. 1845)

Emily Elizabeth Westray

Born: 13/7/1862 Holborn (birth certificate)

Father: George Henry Westray (b. 1844)

Mother: Emily Russell

George Henry & Emily Russell may not have been married

Emma Jane Westray

Born: 1978 in Nottingham

Father: John Gaty Westray (1959)

Mother: Lesley J Dennis

Emma Lilly Westray

Living

Emma at 2 years (left) and in 2003

Ernest Edward Westray

Born: 13/1/1887 in Nottingham (birth certificate)

Died: 1887

Father: George William Charles Westray (1865-1930)

Mother: Charlotte Frances Wilson

Ernest Westray

Born: 23/2/1917 in Nottingham

Died: 1973

Father: George William Henry Westray (1885)

Mother: Edith Turner

Married: Beatrice Hilda Bradley (23/2/1920-1983) in 1940

Children: Pauline June (1943)

Ethel Mary Westray

Born: unknown

Died: unknown

Father: Charles Edward Westray (20/4/1892-1962)

Mother: Eliza Walker (27/4/1884-13/5/1981)

Married: Mr Green

Florence Emily Westray

Born: 3/1/1874 in Amwell, Holborn (birth certificate)

Father: Charles Christopher (b.1849) (Child No.3)

Mother: Martha Voller

Married: Ernest Hewett (1862) on 2/7/1894 in Ass Saints, Newington. He was a cycle fitter. (marriage certificate)

Florence Edith Westray

Born: 1920 in Nottingham

Died: unknown

Father: George William Henry Westray (1885)

Mother: Edith Turner

Married: Norman Rylett in 1940

Frederick George Westray

Born: 23/11/1910

Died: 1983

Married: Violet Brown (25/2/1912) in 1933 in Camberwell

Father: William Henry Westray (b.1873) (Child No.5)

Mother: Harriet Hudson (b.1873)

Children: Violet May (1934), Frederick (1939) & Michael William (1943)

Occupation: Printer at the Financial Times

Frederick And Violet outside 36 Caldew St in about 1959

Frederick George Westray

Born: 1939

Father: Frederick G Westray (1910)

Mother: Violet Brown

Married: Margaret R Norval in 1963 in Camberwell

Children: John H (1965), Anthony Charles (1968) and Jason Lee (1971)

Occupation: Worked most of his life in the print, now in Logistics with Tescos

(left to right) Michael William Westray, Violet May and Frederick George Westray

Frederick William Henry Westray

Born 5/10/1898 (Nottingham) (birth certificate)

Died: 1945

Father: George Henry Westray (Child No.10)

Mother: Ruth Mew (25/11/1862)

Occupation: Railway Engineer Fireman

Married: Sarah Ann Buxton (21/4/1887-15/4/1982) on 5/11/1910 in the Register Office Nottingham (marriage certificate) (death certificate)

Children: Maud M (1912)

Frederick and Sarah witnessed their mother’s second marriage to Charles Ernest Hoare in 1910

Gareth John Westray

Born: 10/11/1980 in Nottingham

Father: John Gary Westray (1959)

Mother: Christine Smith (nee Eddishaw)

George Westray

Born: 1757

Baptised 22 Jan 1758. St Benet, Paul’s Wharf London.

Father: Jonathan Westray (b.1714) (Child No.1)

Mother: Catherine

Married Ester Ann Mary Williams 24/9/1786 St Saviours Southwark

Children: George Jacob (1786), William Henry (1787)

George Westray

Baptised: 2 Aug 1812 St Ann Blackfriars, London

Died: 6/1/1846 Ascites Abdomen (death certificate)

Occupation: Compositor

Father: George Jacob Westray (b. 1786) (ChildNo.1)

Mother: Frances Byrne (1783-1843)

Emily Westray (wife?) present at death at 31 Kirby Street, Saffron Hill.

George Henry Westray

Born: 3/4/1844 in Clerkenwell (birth certificate)

Died: 1907

Father: William Henry Christopher Westray (b.1819) (Child No.2)

Mother: Mary Harding (her father was William Harding). This was Mary’s first marriage. The second was to George Burton (his father was George Burton) on 11/1/1858.

Occupation: printer

First Child: Emily Elizabeth Westray (b. 1862) by Emily Russell

First Marriage: Sarah Kebbell (1845-1888) on 5/2/1865 St George, Bloomsbury (marriage certificate)

Children: George William Charles Westray (1865-1930), Elizabeth Alice Westray (b. 1868), Emily Ada Westray, (1870-1871), William Henry Westray (1873-1928), John Morris Westray (1876), Claude Christopher Westray (1881-1962) and Daisy Bell (1884-1885).

Second Marriage: 24/12/1888 to Ruth Mew (b. 1862). All Saints, Nottingham (Marriage certificate)

Children: Fredrick William Henry Westray (1889-1945) and Charles Edward (1892-1962).

Born Clerkenwell, London. Lived 16 Bury St Bloomsbury in 1865. Lived at 72 Frederick Street Islington in 1870. Lived in Islington in 1873. Lived at 174 Stanhope Street, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1876. Lived at 120 Manning Street (St Ann’s Parish, Nottingham). Lived 21 Ayr Street, Nottingham in1888, when he married Ruth. 26 Chaucer Terrace, Nottingham in 1881.Moved by time of Frederick's birth (1889) to 10 Abbottsford St. In 1892 at 2A Stanley Street.

Ruth subsequently married as a widow Charles Ernest Hoare, house painter (1872) on the 3/9/1910 (marriage certificate).

George Jacob Westray

Baptised 26/3/1786 St Saviours Southwark, London (IGI Record)

Died: unknown

Father: George Westray (b.1757) (Child No.1)

Mother: Ester Ann Mary Williams

Occupation: Printer

Married: Frances Byrne (1783-1843) 10/11/1805 St Saviours, Southwark

Children: George (1812-1846), Eliza (1813), Mary Ann (1815), William Henry Christopher (1819), Ellen (1821), Charles (1823),

1823-1828 of Pemberton Row, Gough Square, London. Also lived in Graystoke Place, Fetter Lane, London in 1829 and 1832 at 6 Newcastle Place, Farrington Street. Was apprentice printer in these years, registered in the Directory of Printers.

Was this the George Westray that was fined and imprisoned in Newgate for his part in a strike against The Times? See press article

George James Westray

Born: 25/8/1886 (Birth Certificate)

Died: 1886

Father: Charles Christopher (b.1849) (Child No.9)

Mother: Martha Voller

Born at 49 Pitman Street, Wyndham Road, Camberwell

George William Charles Westray

Born: 28/12/1865 Grays Inn Lane, St Pancras (birth certificate)

Died: 21/8/1930

Occupation: Printer at the Nottingham Guardian and Evening Post

Father: George Henry Westray (Child No. 2)

Mother: Sarah Kebbell (b. 1845)

First Marriage: Charlotte Frances Wilson (1866-1890) 4/8/1884 in St Andrews, Nottingham (marriage certificate). Her parents were William Wilson and Elizabeth Annie.

George William Charles Westray (left) at Daniel's Wedding to Hilda Acres, 4th June 1928)

Children: George William Henry Westray (16/1/1885) & Ernest Edwin (13/1/1887-1887)

Second Marriage: Mary Anne Levinia White (30/3/1891-1908) Nottingham (she was born in Ceylon)

Mary Anne Levinia Westray (nee White)

Children: Alfred Ernest (1891), Arthur Edward (1892), Clara Lillian (1893), Edward Gifford (1895), Harold (1897), William (1899), John (Jack), Daniel (1902), and John Maurice Westray (1903).

Third Marriage: to a Ada Toop (1864-1937) on the 27/8/1908 (marriage certificate)

Born London St Pancras. Lived at 3 Artisan's Villas. St Ann's Parish, Nottingham in 1885 then 126 Manning St, St Ann’s in 1887. Moved to 7 Youngs Terrace in 1891 & 7 Guy's Terrace in 1892 & 44 Corporation Rd in 1895 & 1 Lavender Street in 1897 & 74 Norlands Rd, Nottingham in 1899 & 1901. Also lived at 3 Granby Villas, Sneiton Dale. In 1908 was living at 20 Ladysmith Street

Link to The White Family

Link to The Toop Family

Above George William Charles and his third wife, Ada (nee Toop)

Harold (top left), Daniel (top right) with George William Charles and his third wife, Ada (nee Toop)

George William Charles Westray

Born: 31/5/1913 in Nottingham

Died: 1972

Father: George William Henry Westray (1885)

Mother: Edith Turner

Married 1: Ursula Valmai Rees (3/6/1918 in Wales -3/9/1967) in St Andrew Church, Nottingham on 5/8/1939

Children: Valerie Elizabeth Westray (26/3/1943)

Married 2: Edith Hackett (nee Tomlinson) on 26/10/1968

George William Henry Westray

Born: 16/1/1885 (Nottingham)

Died: 1945

Father: George William Charles Westray (B. 1865)

Mother: Charlotte Frances Wilson

Occupation: Printer Boy (in 1901 census), then journeyman printer

Married: Edith Turner (1886-14/2/1951) on 25/12/1904 (marriage & death certificate)

Children: Charlotte Ellen (1905), Thomas (11/10/1907), George William Charles (31/5/1913), Florence Edith (1920), Ernest (1917) & Lily (1923)

He won a bravery award in 1912. See Article.

Gerald Westray

Born: 1932

Father: Daniel Westray (1902-1964)

Mother: Hilda Acres

Married: Margaret Goodliffe on 10/9/1960

Children: Helen Marie (1961)

Lives Nottingham. Worked in the circulation department of the Nottingham Guardian and Evening Post.

Gerald and Margaret on their 40^th Wedding Anniversary 10^th September 2000

Gerald & Maurice on Gerald's wedding (10/9/1960)

Harold Westray

Born: 17/11/1897 (Nottingham)

Died: 1967

Father: George William Charles Westray (B. 1865)

Mother: Mary Ann Levina White (d. 1905)

Occupation: College Caretaker

Married: Frances Hinch (17/3/1909-12/6/1979) in 1933 (death certificate)

 Maurice, Daniel, Harold,Arthur, Lois, Hilda, Fanny, Manbel, Gerald, Graham Hinch & Joyce at Mabelthorpe 1947?

Harold and Fanny

Harold Frederick Westray

Born: 1927

Occupation: Worked at the Financial Times as a Foundry Manager.

Father: Claude Thomas Westray (b.1896)

Mother: Eleanor Marion Doughty (1898)

Married: Daphne June Bates in 1951

Children: Diane (1955), Nicola (1964) and Claire (1967)

Hellen Westray

Baptised: 1636

Father: Henry (1595)

Mother: unknown

Helen Marie Westray

Born: 1961

Father: Gerald Westray

Mother: Margaret Goodliffe

Married: Andrew Cawthan in 1984

Children: James Andrew Westray Cawthan (1986)

Lives Nottingham

Joyce, Dennis, Helen & Gerald, Westray family re-union 20/5/1986 

Henry Westray

Baptised: 1596

Father: Christopher

Mother: unknown

Married: unknown

Children: Hellen (1636)

Henry Westray

Baptised: 1669 Bridekirk Cumberland

Father: Henry Westray

Mother: unknown

Married: unknown

Henry Westray

Baptised: 1630 Bridekirk Cumberland

Father: Johannis Westray

Mother: Agneta Thomson (1595)

Married: unknown

Children: Elizabetha (1667), Henry (1669) and Johanes (1672)

Henry Gifford Westray

Born: 1966

Father: Martin Westray (1961)

Mother: Liz

Henry Westray

Baptised: 12/2/1630

Father: Johannis Westray

Mother: Agneta Thomson

No Children

Herbert Claude Westray

(known as Bert)

Born 4/1/1919

Died: 29/1/2008

Occupation: retired printer for the Daily Mirror

Liveed in Forest Hill, South London.

Married Kathleen Muriel Plumb (25/7/1931 –14/12/1986), on the 8th February 1956 in Gleedless Sheffield.

Father: William Harold Westray (1895-1962) (Child No.2)

Mother: Melina Maud Hopkins (1895-2001)

Children: John Stephen Westray (b.1958)

Herbert Claude at school and in 2000

Bert’s childhood memories

Links:

The Byrne Family

The Hopkins Family

The Hudson Family

The Kebbell Family

The Mew Family

The Plumb Family in the UK A-E

The Plumb Family in the UK F-J

The Plumb Family in the UK K-S

The Plumb Family in the UK T-Z

The Other Westrays 1

The Westray Family A-D

The Westray Family I-M

The Westray Family P-Z

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