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WEST, Harold Edgoose
1901 - 1982 (81 years) Has 32 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.
1868 - 1921 (53 years)-
Name WEST, Harold Edgoose Birth 8 Oct 1901 Wolverhampton Registration District, Staffordshire 
Gender Male Death 28 Nov 1982 Northampton Registration District, Northamptonshire Person ID I939 Edgoose Last Modified 25 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 1 NEWICK, Elsie, b. 1894, Chard, Somerset, England d. 10 Aug 1951, Northampton Registration District, Northamptonshire (Age 57 years) Marriage 1928 Chard, Somerset, England Children 1. WEST, Heather Elizabeth Chard, b. 19 Oct 1930, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England d. 23 Jun 2008, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (Age 77 years)Family ID F647 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Family 2 WARD, Rosemary Anne Moore, b. 1921, Hitchin Registration District, Hertfordshire d. 20 Feb 2017, Seaford, Sussex, England (Age 96 years) Marriage 1952 Northampton Registration District, Northamptonshire Family ID F648 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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Notes - WEST HAROLD EDGOOSE 1901-1982
The birth of Harold Edgoose WEST was registered in 1901. According to the registration of his death in 1982, he was born on 8 October 1901.
(GRO December Q 1901 Wolverhampton 6b 568)
The 1911 census of Glengarry, Coalway Road, Penn Fields, Wolverhampton:
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)
According to notes made by Heather WEST her father's family lived at 25 Larches Lane, Wolverhampton. He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School from 20 September 1915 to ??.07.1921. He was a prefect. Staff C.C.. Major Scholarship. Open Maths Exhibition ?arner Scholarship to Cains College, Cambridge. BA in 1924.
WEST, Harold Edgoose, was listed in the Cambridge University Calendar 1921-1922.
The marriage between Harold E. WEST and Elsie NEWICK was registered in 1928.
(GRO September Q 1928 Chard 5c 739)
Lce.-Bdr. Harold Edgoose WEST (282676) RAOC from RA.
(London Gazette Issue 36225 26.10.1943 page 4)
WEST, Harold Edgoose is listed in the Cambridge University Calendar for the year 1950-1951.
The death of his wife Elsie WEST was registered in 1951. She was 57 years old.
(GRO September Q 1951 Northampton 3b 414)
"Elsie WEST of 349 Billing-road-east Northampton (Wife of Harold Edgoose WEST) died 10 August 1951
Probate London 7 November to the said Harold Edgoose WEST bank official and Heather Elizabeth Chard WEST spinster".
Effects £952.
(National Probate Calendar 1951)
The marriage between Harold E. WEST and Rosemary A. M. WARD was registered in 1952.
(GRO September Q 1952 Northampton 3b 1625)
Harold Edgoose WEST of Lloyds Bank Ltd., Sherborne, Dorset, was listed on page 387 of the 1927 Journal of the Institute of Bankers.
(Google Books)
The death of Harold Edgoose WEST was registered in 1982. According to his daughter Heather WEST who met Stanton John EDGOOSE (1931-2018) in 1995, he died on 28 November 1982.
(GRO December Q 1982 Northampton 7 2738)
(revised 25.09.2018)
- WEST HAROLD EDGOOSE 1901-1982