West & Park Family History
Charles West
1913 - 2004 (90 years)
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Name Charles West - Charlie was still living at Lumsden North in 1946. The Wests lived well out towards the Queen's Head, and on the morning of Friday, December 17, 1946, Charlie was up long before daylight to see if it was a good morning for a bird. Charlie was known as a "great hand fer the gun" (Raymond W. Guy's book "From the Straight Shore".) It was a real winter's morning, the wind on the land with snow and blowing snow. The snow eased up a bit and Charlie saw what he thought was the morning star. But the star seemed to be swaying and, as the snow lightened a bit more, he saw other lights below the star and realized they were the lights on a ship.
The SS Thackery was bound for Botwood for a load of newsprint from the paper mill at Grand Falls. After she passed Cat Harbour Island (Norther Island), she was caught in a gale on the land and slowly drifted ashore on Queen's Head. Efforts to take the crew off by boats failed, but a line was gotten ashore, a bosun's chair was rigged, and after four hours, all were safely landed. The ship spent the winter grounded on Queen's Head but did not suffer much damage. On the first high tide of the Spring, she was refloated and went to St. John's for repairs. (All this info came from Raymond Guy's book.)
Source: Descendants of Joseph West, Rex Gibbons 2010
Born Sep 1913 Lumsden North, Newfoundland 
Gender Male Died 28 Mar 2004 Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland [1] Person ID I198 West & Park Genealogy Last Modified 16 Jul 2024
Father George Thomas Weste, b. 5 May 1876, Cat Harbour (Lumsden), Newfoundland , d. 1969 (Age 92 years) Mother Jemimah Chaulk, b. May 1880, Deadman's Bay, Newfoundland , d. 13 Oct 1951 (Age 71 years) Married 4 Jun 1904 Cat Harbour (Lumsden), Newfoundland Documents 
Marriage of George West and Jemima Chalk Family ID F64 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mamie Head Children + 1. Eric West, b. 7 Oct 1943, Lumsden, Newfoundland , d. 27 Jan 2013, Gull Pond, Newfoundland (Age 69 years)2. Phillip West, b. 1944, d. 1944 (Age 0 years) Last Modified 1 Apr 2021 Family ID F109 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Charlie was still living at Lumsden North in 1946. The Wests lived well out towards the Queen's Head, and on the morning of Friday, December 17, 1946, Charlie was up long before daylight to see if it was a good morning for a bird. Charlie was known as a "great hand fer the gun" (Raymond W. Guy's book "From the Straight Shore".) It was a real winter's morning, the wind on the land with snow and blowing snow. The snow eased up a bit and Charlie saw what he thought was the morning star. But the star seemed to be swaying and, as the snow lightened a bit more, he saw other lights below the star and realized they were the lights on a ship.
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Born - Sep 1913 - Lumsden North, Newfoundland 
Died - 28 Mar 2004 - Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S46] Descendants of Joseph West, Rex Gibbons, 8.
- [S46] Descendants of Joseph West, Rex Gibbons, 8.