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WEST, Major Jesse "Bill" O.B.E., B.Sc.,
1893 - 1963 (69 years) Has 32 ancestors and 5 descendants in this family tree.
1868 - 1921 (53 years)-
Name WEST, Jesse "Bill" Title Major Suffix O.B.E., B.Sc., Birth 4 Oct 1893 Leeds, Yorkshire, England 
Gender Male Name Bill WEST Name Bill West Death 1963 Person ID I2607 Edgoose Last Modified 4 Feb 2026
Father WEST, Jesse, b. 1863, Leicester, Leicestershire d. 1936, Wolverhampton Registration District, Staffordshire (Age 73 years) Mother SMITH, Sarah Elizabeth, b. 1868, Leeds, Yorkshire, England d. 1921, Wolverhampton Registration District, Staffordshire (Age 53 years) Marriage 1891 Leeds, Yorkshire, England Family ID F190 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family CHAPPELL, Kathleen Floy, b. 26 Oct 1895, Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire, England d. 1993, Norwich, Norfolk, England (Age 97 years) Marriage 1918 Plomesgate, Suffolk, England Children 1. WEST, Sheila Margaret Haden d. Yes, date unknown 2. WEST, Colin Haden d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 3. WEST, Dorothy Brenda Haden, b. 1918 d. Yes, date unknown 4. WEST, Robert Alan Haden, b. 1920 d. 1940 (Age 20 years) Family ID F1292 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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JESSE WEST 1893-1963
The birth of Jesse WEST was registered in 1893. He was born on 4 October 1893, son of Jesse and Sarah Elizabeth WEST of 24 Waverley Terrace, Lepold Street, New Leeds, Yorkshire, and was baptised on 26 November 1893 at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Richmond Hill, Leeds.
(GRO December Q 1893 Leeds 9b 555)
The 1901 census returns for 25 Larches Lane, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire:
Jesse WEST, head, aged 37, schoolmaster, born at Leicester;
Sarah E. WEST, wife, aged 33, born at Leeds, Yorkshire;
*Jessie (sic) WEST, son, aged 7, born at Leeds, Yorkshire;
Ernest WEST, son, aged 5, born at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire;
Adelaide DONE, servant, aged 17, general servant, born at Wednesfield, Staffordshire.
(RG13/2673/85/34)
Jesse WEST attended Wolverhampton Grammar School from 2 November 1908 to 26 July 1912. He was a prefect and captain of football. He received a major scholarship to Imperial Colledge of Technology, London - received his BSc.
(Notes made by Heather TAPLAY née WEST)
The 1911 census of Glengarry, Coalway Road, Penn Fields, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire:
Jesse WEST, head, aged 47, married, principal Higher Grade School,W'ton Educatn. Committee, born in Leicester, Leicestershire;
Sarah Elizabeth WEST, wife, aged 43, married 18 years, 4 children (3 living), born at Leeds, Yorkshire;
*Jesse WEST, son, aged 17, single, born at Leeds, Yorkshire;
Ernest Arthur WEST, son, aged 15, single, born at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire;
Harold Edgoose WEST, son, aged 9, born at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire;
Elizabeth MOSELEY, servant, aged 34, single, general servant domestic, born at Claverley, Shropshire.
(RG14/17008)
A Kathleen H [sic] CHAPPELL married a Jesse WEST in 1918.
(GRO June Q 1918 Plomegate [Suffolk] 4a 1931)
He was a Major in the 2nd South Staffordshire Regiment and was awarded an MC and Bar. He went to Nigeria to mine tin.
(Notes made by Heather TAPLAY formerly WEST)
He and Kathleen Floy WEST gave their intended address as The Rising Sun at Warsash, Southampton, on arrival at Liverpool from Lagos, Nigeria, on 5 July 1948. The records show that their visit was not intended to be a permanent one.
Jesse WEST, a 60 year old consulting engineer, and 58 year old Kathleen Floy WEST, travelled First Class on the the RMMV Apapa of the Elder Dempster Lines Ltd. from Nigeria in West Africa to Liverpool, arriving on 12 April 1954. Their intended address was the Rising Sun, Warsash, Hampshire, as in 1948.
In the 1952 New Year Honours Major Jesse WEST was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) (Oversea II) for public services in Nigeria (OBE).
He died in 1963.
Kathleen Floy WEST was named in the London Gazette in 1964 as the personal representative of a former British Army Major.
NOTES & QUERIES:
A Jesse WEST married Amy P. SUMMERHILL in 1925.
(GRO December Q 1925 Wolverhampton 6b 1345)
No record has been found in England & Wales of WEST children whose mother's maiden name was SUMMERHILL.
(revised 29.04.2015)