Birth: 3 May 1888 School House, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Father: Charles William West 1844-1891
Mother: Fanny Sturt 1855-1936
Christening: 22 July 1888 St Mary the Virgin, Frensham, Surrey, UK
Marriage: July-September 1914 Watford, Herfordshire, UK
Wife: Dorothy Margaret Yarrow [Partridge] 1895-1975
Death: 28 August 1963 Tragaddick Hotel, Blisland, Bodmin, Cornwall, UK
None known
Birth of Godfrey Hodgson West in FreeBMD in April-June 1888 in Farnham (2a 127).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Godfrey Hodgson West baptised on 22 July 1888 in Frensham, Surrey, parents Charles William and Fanny West.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1912 for Godfrey Hodgson West born on 3 May 1888, baptised on 22 July 1888 at Frensham, St Mary, parents Charles William and Fanny West. "Page 153 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Frensham in the County of Surrey in the Year 1888 [...] 1888 July 22 No. 124 Godfrey Hodgson, parents Charles William, a School-Master, and Fanny West of National School Born May 3 1888".
In the 1891 census as Godfrey Holyson (sic - in the index, Hodgson on the original) West aged 2, born in Frensham, Surrey, and living with his parents (Annie William and Fanny), and four sisters (Alice Margaret, Ciceley Grace, Dorothy Fenner and Winifred Mary) in the School House, Frensham, Surrey.
His father died in Frensham on 19 June 1891.
His sister died at 86 East Street, Farnham in January 1893.
In the 1901 census as Godfrey Hodgson West, born in Foresham S Mary's (sic - in the index, Frensham St Mary on the original), Surrey, and living at Christs Hospital Boarding School, Newgate Street, City of London.
In the 1911 census as Godfrey Hodgson West aged 22, born in Ham (sic - in the index, Frensham on the original), Surrey, single, a shipping clerk for a copper mining company, and living with his widowed mother (Fanny) and sister (Dorothy Frances) in five rooms at 74 Cambridge Mansions, Battersea, London.
Marriage of Godfrey H West and Dorothy M Yarrow in FreeBMD in July-September 1914 in Watford (3a 1999).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Godfrey H West born 3 May 1888, married, a shipping manager, in the Observer Corps, and living with Dorothy M West (wife?) and Henry N Partridge (wife's future husband?) at Bacons Farm, Saffron Walden, Essex.
He was one of the executors of the wills of two aunts - Mary Sturt died on 13 September 1946 and left effects £712 12s. 3d to Godfrey Hodgson West guest house proprietor and Annie Sturt died on 29 November 1952 and left effects of effects £729 to Godfrey Hodgson West guest house proprietor.
Death of Godfrey H West in FreeBMD in July-September 1963 in Camelford (7a 21).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Godfrey Hodgson West died 28 August 1963 in Bodmin, probate 16 October 1963 in Bodmin. "West Godfrey Hodgson of Tragaddick Hotel Blisland Bodmin died 28 August 1963 Probate Bodmin 16 October to Dorothy Margaret West Widow. Effects £762 17s"
There are four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Godfrey Hodgson West born in Frensham, Surrey in 1887, parents Charles William West and Fanny Sturt, and his death in 1957 in one, his birth on 3 May 1888, and death in Bodmin on 28 August 1963 in Bodmin in the other three, one giving his wife as Dorothy Margaret.
Godfrey Hodgson West was my third cousin twice removed.
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