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Foreword
THE WEST FAMILY IS one of the early pioneering families of Orange.
John West was born in 1823 in Woking, Surrey, in England. His father James was a farmer and his moth-
er’s name was Ann. John arrived in
Australia on the Earl Grey on 24 June
1841, aged 18. He was brought out
by William Walker & Co, certified
by Stephen Woods, James Hyde Jones
and another. He was illiterate and was
brought out as a farm servant. There
is a possible brother named Edmund.
He must have gone to a farm in the
Western District.
Mary Ann Astill was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann, and was born in 1830 in Kirby Muxloe, Leices- tershire, England. They left London on 12 November 1847 on the Hyder- abad. Mary arrived in Australia on 19 February 1848 when she was 18. She was literate and came out as a farm servant. She travelled out with her sister Susannah, who was married to Josiah Cantrill. Susannah’s brothers
01. John West (1823-1891)
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