Martyn West R.A.F.
Honor Code SignatorySigned 8 Sep 2018 | 27,701 contributions | 317 thank-yous | 4,991 connections
Signed 8 Sep 2018 | 27,701 contributions | 317 thank-yous | 4,991 connections
Mr Martyn J. West R.A.F.
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Brother of
[private brother (1940s - unknown)] and [private brother (1950s - unknown)]
Descendants 
Father of
[private daughter (1960s - unknown)], Aaron West, Lianne West and [private daughter (1990s - unknown)]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Martyn Was born in 1944. He is the son of Rowland West and Irene Holmes. Martyn is still alive.
Martyn joined the Royal Air Force in 1960-05-23. Service number A1941261, discharged 1976-04-30. Martyn become a South African citizen 1986-08-20.
Martyn is the author of A Survivor's Manual: The Ultimate Civil Emergency https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Survivor_s_Manual.html?id=GQDVAgAAQBAJ
Sources
- Martyn's birth cerificate is DC570297 registration district: Sittingbourne, Kent England.
- Martyn's UK social security number is YB118594C.
- Martyn's South African ID number is 4407145056084 .
All South African information is held by Home Affairs under the ID number of a person and is not readily available.
- Birth
"England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV7S-M5T3 : 1 October 2014), null in entry for Martyn J West, 1944; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, Sittingbourne, Kent, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
- Marriage (Wendy)
"England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV6Q-MKZD : 8 October 2014), Martyn J West and null, 1963; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,” database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1963, quarter 4, vol. 4B, p. 1137, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
- emigrated to South Africa aboard the RMS Windsor Castle, arriving in Cape Town on 1976-06-10
- Divorce Wendy
High court of South Africa, East London circuit, local division, case number EL 274/00 signed by Martyn 2000-09-19, signed by Wendy 2000-09-04, the final order was signed 2000-09-26.
- traditional marriage Semakaleng
- civil marriage Semakaleng
Home affairs South Africa, East London, 2001-07-12
- annulment of civil marriage Semakaleng
High court of South Africa, East London circuit, local division, case number EL 139/03 the final order was signed 2003-06-04.
- traditional marriage Palesa
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/gallery/album/1297030
- civil marriage Palesa
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/gallery/album/1348962
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- private children's names (4)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Martyn:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Martyn:
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~0.78%
Derek Pinckard
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member derekpinckard_1
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~0.78%
Margaret (Kent) Norris :
AncestryDNA
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Thank you for accepting my request to join the Trusted List for Nanny Lena (Catherine Elizabeth Cracknell)
Nga mihi nui ki a koe! Many, many thanks for your generous help in editing the profiles for Takotoroa Anaru and Catherine Elizabeth (Cracknell) Anaru, my grandparents. As a newcomer to Wikitree, I appreciate the time you and distant cousin Carol West have invested in researching our Cracknell family tree. I tried to award a badge, but am not sure if this was successful.
Kind regards,
Tuaiwa
Any help you could provide would be appreciated greatly.
Best regards, Peter Diehr
This Mary Jones (1794) is just possible, as William had been impressed into the Royal Navy shortly after the war with France had started, Feb 1793. My great grandfather, and the grandson of William Steers, Christian James Kelly (1839-1917), worked together with his cousins to reconstruct the life of William Steers, including memories told him as a boy by his grandmother, the Widow Steers, the former Sarah Dicks (1785-1850) , and by his mother, Sarah Ann Steers (1812-1893). After several exchanges of letters, of which only a few are extant, he summarized their findings in a long letter of 1916.
They decided Mary was his mother, but court records from Detroit, dated June 8th, 1801, give her name as Mary Steers. My great grandfather had this to say: "The family information passed down via his grandson, Christian James Kelly, is that "I do not know where Grandfather went after he left Halifax, whether direct to Detroit or some other place. Nor do I know where he became acquainted and married his first wife."
So we can speculate that he met this Mary Jones in Gloucester, and married her while his ship was in port for periodic repairs. If so, she somehow made it across the Atlantic, and met up with William by mid-1796, as their first child was born in February 1797, in Detroit. But there is no marriage record for them in Detroit, nor have I found one in the very detailed French records of Catholic Quebec province. So it may have occurred earlier.
In my great grandfather's letter is told a hair-raising tale of his suffering aboard the naval ship, and his consequent desertion, and escape on an American ship leaving for Halifax. I know not the dates, nor the name of this ship, nor have I found any mention of William Steers in the somewhat sparse Halifax records of those years. Apparently he received a pardon there, for serving out some time in the provincial marine. The letter mentions that he came from a sea-going family, possibly small ship builders, and involved in the coastal trade. It says that his father took him to sea with him at age six! I know that in Detroit he worked in the Federal shipyard, and was later First Mate (Sailing Master) of both government ships built there, from 1802 to 1812, when he was taken prisoner at the capitulation of Detroit, on August 16th, 1812, along with the rest of the Federal troops, and the local Michigan militia.
He was paroled shortly thereafter, and had returned to Detroit prior to February 1813, for he paid off a debt of $7 then, for which the receipt still exists. The rest of the story is told in the letter, of which I have uploaded a copy, with annotations, to William Steers Wiki page, Steers-75. You may find it interesting.
Best regards, Peter Diehr
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