Birth: April-June 1876 Exeter, Devon, UK
Father: James Westaway 1843-1918
Mother: Mary Ann (Anne) Mildon 1842-1917
Christening: 11 September 1876 St James, Exeter, Devon, UK
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Elsie Marion Legg 1877-1955
Death: 21 November 1947 East Ham, Essex, UK
Ida Marion Westaway [Musto] 1901-1984
Arthur George Westaway 1908-1993
Charles Lewis Westaway 1914-2001
Hilda Mary Westaway [Forbes] 1916-1990
Birth of Lewis William Westaway in FreeBMD in April-June 1876 in Exeter (5b 96).
Entry in Ancestry Devon, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 for Lewis William Westawy baptised 11 September 1876 at Exeter, St James, parents James and Mary Anne Westaway.
His brother was born in Exeter in 1878 and sister in Portsea in February 1881.
In the 1881 census as Lewis W Westaway aged 4, born in Exeter, Devon and living with his parents (James and Mary A), three brothers (Arthur G, Frederick and Sidney L), and three sisters (Edith L, Ellen E and Mary A) at 23 Upper Church Path, Landport, Portsea, Hampshire.
In the 1891 census as Lewis Griffin (sic - in the index, Westaway on the original), born in Exeter, Devon and living with his mother (Mary Ann), brother (Sydney), and two sisters (Edith L and Mary Ann) at 1 Moorland Road, Kingston, Portsea, Hampshire. Another family (surname Griffin) were living at the same address.
Entry in Ancestry British Postal Service Appointment Books, 1737-1969 for Lewis W Westaway a Tel Teamman at LPS in April 1891.
Entry in The Edinburgh Gazette 26 June 1891 p664 "Civil Service Commission [...] June. 19 1891 After Open Competition [...] Post Office; [...] Telegraph Learner, London Postal Districts - Lewis William Westaway".
A daughter was born in Cape Town in 1901.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Mr L W Westaway arrived at Southampton on 3 June 1905 from Cape Town, South Africa on Armadale Castle, Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd.
A son was born in Cape Town in 1908, his wife, son and daughter returned to the UK on 12 August 1911, and his son and daughter were born in West Ham in 1914 and 1916.
Entry in 1921 census for Lewis William Westaway born in Devon in 1876 and living in East Ham, Essex.
Entry in All 1939 England and Wales Register for Lewis W Westaway born 13 May 1875 (sic), married, a press telegraphist, and living with Elsie M Westaway (wife?) and Ida M Musto (daughter?) at 102 Shrewsbury Road, East Ham, Essex.
Death of Lewis W Westaway in FreeBMD in October-December 1947 aged 72 in E Ham (5a 14).
There are thirty one entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Lewis William Westaway.
Lewis William Westaway was the father of Ida Marion Westaway, wife of Ernest Arthur Musto, husband of Gladys Grocock, my half third cousin.
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