Rootschatters have helped me previously to try to break down a West brick wall.
That concerned
Edwin Peter WEST, and the RootsChat threads can be found here…..
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=277767.0http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=249499.msg1376192#msg1376192It is still not solved.
I’ve kept searching on and off, and talking to a grandson of Edwin Peter West. The grandson informs me that Edwin Peter had a brother called Lancelot Douglas West who worked for the South Australian railways. The only other new thing to be found is from a newspaper article about Edwin Peter’s death, in which it states his mother and brother were at Edwin’s funeral, and his brother was the Station master at Alberton. The talk goes that there was a falling out at some stage and the two families had nothing to do with each other. Whether this was before Edwin Peter died or afterwards, I do not know.
Brickwall #1 is
Lancelot Douglas West. I can find no record of such a person in Australia, let alone South Australia.
However, I have found a
Lancelot De Arcy West, (Dearcy/Darcy) who was born 11th April 1893 to Frederick De Arcy West and Frances Chandler in Adelaide. There is a lot of information regarding Lancelot De Arcy West’s connection with the South Australian Railways to be found in Trove Newspapers, including a number of photos, and hopefully I have someone who will check South Australian State Records to see if any information that will help exists in their records. An interesting thing I’ve noted is that his mother was Mrs F West, as was Edwin Peter’s mother. I’ve been wondering if the limited family information about a Lancelot Douglas West is actually about Lancelot De Arcy West.
Incidentally there was another child, Frank Herchell West born to Frederick De Arcy West and Frances Chandler in 1888 who died in 1891.
Now I come to Brickwall #2 who is
Frederick De Arcy West. I can find no earlier or later record of him anywhere, and to complicate the puzzle, Lancelot De Arcy West gives his father as William West at marriage., and on his death record in Victoria his father is given as William Henry West.
Brickwall #3 is
Frances West nee Chandler. I may have found her death in South Australia in 1930. On the index entry there is a Frances West who died then, with husband William Henry Augustus Theodore West.
The newspaper death notice for Frances is no help at all.
And that brings me to
William Henry (Augustus Theodore) West, Brickwall #4.
If anyone needs a holiday challenge, and can find any snippet about any of the above, no matter how small, I’ll be really happy to add it to my file.
Dee…..feeling the frustration!
