Major Roger West - Son of Captain Richard West
Roger West was 23 years old when his father died. Roger married sometime previous to the year 1659, Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Henry Tichborne, Knight, Privy Councillor, and Field Marshal of Ireland. Roger West was a soldier, and obtained the rank of Major, and was High Sheriff for the County of Down in the year 1657. Major Roger West was for many years in command of the Earl of Anglesey's Horse Troop. He died on 31st March 1686, and was buried in the chancel of Arklow Church on 3rd April following, having had issue four sons (Henry West, his eldest son and heir-at-law; William West, Tichborne West, and Richard West, who died young before his father) and seven daughters. Major Roger West was related to the Rawdon family of Moira; for in the Calendar of State Papers, Ireland (vol. 1647-1660, p. 496), there is published a letter, dated Dublin, 27 January, 1654, written by Major George Rawdon to Colonel Edward Conway, in which Major G. Rawdon refers to his "cousin Major West".
Roger's son, Henry West matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, in August 1676 aged 17. He married, after July 1685, Elizabeth Meredith, 1st daughter of Robert Meredith of Shrowland, Co. Kildare, and widow of John Baily of Corballis, Queen's County, by whom he had two sons, Henry and Richard, and a daughter, Margaret. Henry (Snr) was killed during the assault on Limerick on 27th August 1690, leaving his widow and three children surviving. His son, Henry West (Jnr) married Frideswide Savage in 1711, a daughter of Patrick Savage of Derry and Portaferry, and had by her one son, Patrick West. After his wife Fridewide died in 1727, Henry married again to Ann Wilkinson, daughter of Philip Wilkinson and by her had two more sons; Henry and Philip. Philip died in the lifetime of his father in January 1768. Eldest son, Patrick West married in Downpatrick on 21st November 1768, Dorcas Price, the younger daughter of Cromwell Price, MP for Downpatrick; and granddaughter of Major-General Nicholas Price, who himself was married to Dorcas West, fourth daughter of Major Roger West mentioned earlier. Patrick West was a Lieutenant in the second battalion of the Royal Scots, and was on active service in America for some seven years. He died without issue in September 1770 (will dated 1st September 1770; proved 8 December, 1772), leaving his widow Dorcas surviving.
