WEST family - additional notes
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THOMAS WEST
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father of WILLIAM WEST
- - 1450c ... The freemen had access to 14 acres of pasture in Bulmer, Essex, two miles south of Sudbury under rights
granted to the corporation by Thomas West in the mid-fifteenth century ....
- - 1467 Thomas West gent of Sudbury and Dionise his wife, late wife of Philip Caxton Esq. v John Veer Earl of Oxford and
others, feoffees of said Philip and Dionise re manors of Great and Little Wratting, Thurlow, Withersfield, Haverhill,
Hanchett, Steeple Bumpstead, Clare, Kedington, Barnardiston. 31 Henry VI (1453). Note: PCC wills of Thomas West esq. Of
Sudbury 1467 and Thomas West esq. Of Great Cornard 1508 - see list of State Papers and Chancery Proceedings in
Cawston.
- - 1509 see mention of his will under his grandsons entry.
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WILLIAM WEST
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son of THOMAS WEST
and father of THOMAS WEST
- - Greys Manor held by Sir Richard Cornerd, his daughter Alice and her husband Thomas de Grey died 1321, and their son
Sir Thomas de Grey - see Greys Manor, Great Cornard in Copingers Suffolk Manors.
- - ..the manor then passed to William West of Cornard who was succeeded by by his son and heir Thomas West who died
in 1508 - see Greys Manor, Great Cornard in Copingers Suffolk Manors.
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THOMAS WEST
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son of WILLIAM WEST
and father of EDMUND WEST
- - 1509 Thomas West was succeeded by his son and heir Edmund West.... - see Greys Manor, Great Cornard in Copingers Suffolk
Manors.
- - 1509 Thomas West inquisition post mortem - Hugh Dey and Robert Heyward clerks were seised of the under mentioned
manor and lands &c., and granted them by charter to the said Thomas Weste and Grizel his wife, and the heirs of the
body of Thomas, with remainder to the heirs of the body of Ralph Weste, and, in the event of failure of the issue of
such heirs, to John Heigham, John Coket, the younger, Edmund Danyell, the younger, Thomas Sampson, the younger,
William Coote, Edward Walgrave and William Walgrave, the younger, their heirs and assigns, for the performance of the
last will of Thomas Weste, esquire, grandfather of Thomas Weste named in the writ. Grizel survived her husband, and
is still seised of the premises in her demesne as of free tenement. Thomas died August last. Edmund West aged 11 and
more is his son and heir - Manor of Greys, and 250a. land, 90a. pasture, 30a. wood, 10a. marsh and 3l. rent in Great
Cornerde, Little Cornerde, Neuton, Sudbury, Chilton and Assyngton, worth 23l. 6s., held of the king, as of his honor
of Clare, by a fourth part of knight's fee. - 2 messuages, 60a land, 12a meadow, 10a pasture and 40s. rent in Sudbury,
Chilton, Great Cornerde and Little Cornerde, worth 6l.13s. 4d, held of William, abbot of the monastry of St Edmunds of
Bury, by fealty and 2s. rent - C.Series II. Vol. 22. (77).
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EDMUND WEST
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son of THOMAS WEST
and father of MARGARET WEST
- - 1498c Edmund West born - see his father's inquisition post mortem dated 1509.
- - 1590 ...disposed of this manor to Edmund Buckenham cousin and heir of John Bokenham, being the son of John Bokenham
and Elizabeth his wife sole [wrong] daughter and heir of Edmund West .... - see Thelnetham in Copingers Suffolk
Manors.
- - ..Edmund West one of whose daughters and co-heirs Margaret married Edmund Daniell of Acton and the other, Elizabeth,
married John Bokenham who died in 1566. Three fines were levied in the reign of Edward VI one of the whole manor and
the other two of a moiety. The first was in 1547 by John Bokenham and others against Robert Doundes [husband of widow of
Edmund West??] and others; the second in 1549 by James Dounes and others against the said John Bokenham; and the third in
1550 by George Felton against Edmund Danyell and others. A fourth fine was in 1592 levied by William Tyffyn against
John Daniell..... - see Greys Manor, Great Cornard in Copingers Suffolk Manors.
- - 1519 by indenture dated 10th of Henry VIII, Sir William Waldegrave, knight sold to Margaret Drury, of Rougham, widow,
the wardship of Edmund West, to be married with Dorothy Drury her daughter.... - see notes
on Drury genealogy
- - 1519 Dorothy Drury married firstly Edmund West of Cornerd Magna Suffolk and secondly Robert Downs of Melton Norfolk -
see genealogy on Drury genealogy.
- see pages on Drury family.
- - 1549 Edmund West - The manor is said to have been held in 1498 by John Naylor and Clemence his wife, whose daughter and
heiress married Thomas West, leaving an only son Edmund West. The latter left two daughters-Elizabeth who married John
Bekenham, and Margaret, and these conveyed the manor in 1549 to Roland Page - see description of manor
of Pates, Lysons: Environs of Lond. (1800), v, 7, citing
records of Christ's Hospital and Feet of Fines for Middlesex East 3 Edw. VI.
- - 1588 William Golding - according to Louis Thorn Golding, Elizabeth daughter of Edmund West married, as her second husband, William Golding, the brother of Margery Golding, the mother of the Earl of Oxford (see An Elizabethan Puritan by Richard R Smith 1937) - William Golding's will was dated 1588, by 1591 he and his wife were dead so the administration of the will was granted to his daughter Mary - see notes by Nina Green
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MARGARET WEST
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daughter of EDMUND WEST
- - Edmund Daniel aged 44 in 1567 (9th of Elizabeth 1) will dated 1569 buried at Acton, married Margaret West daughter of
Edmund West of Cornard Suffolk with coat of arms, died 1589 buried at Acton - see Howard's Visitation.
- - Edmund Daniel esquire of Acton will dated 29/8/1569 proved 11/111/1569 mentions executrix and main heiress his wife
Margaret, cousin Doctor Drewrie and brother William Goldinge executors, his stepmother still occupying some lands, son
Thomas Dannyell, son Francis Danyell, named lands in Sudbury etc, six daughters Mary, Grissel, Anne, Barbara, Dorothy
and Elizabeth, son John.
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