Godfrey West of Clogher

When, some hundred years after the 1641 rebellion, Dr. Seneca Hadzor married off his daughter Elizabeth Hadzor to a seemingly relatively minor member of the West family, he no doubt hoped that the marriage would nonetheless provide a secure future for his daughter.  

But just as the Hadzors were struggling to maintain their own presence and prestige, the West family must also have struggled to cope with the consequences its own rapid expansion. Laws of primogeniture would tend to dictate that unless a rich family was continually able to generate wealth and find suitable marital alliances then children at the lower end of the family lines would start to fall back down the social scale.  This most likely is what had happened to Godfrey West, and in his marriage to Elizabeth Hadzor, it is hard to avoid the feeling that here we have two families trying to make the best of a diminished lineage in the hope that enough remained for them to work their way back up in the world.

Blackwood's notes about Godfrey West and Elizabeth Hadzor. He records that Godfrey lived near the Shambles (Irish Street) and was a failed tallow chandler, who left his family and emigrated to Liverpool after the failure of his business.

Thus it was on the 3rd July 1760 in Downpatrick Parish Church that Godfrey West of the 'new' English colonials married Elizabeth Hadzor (1731-1816), daughter of Dr. Seneca Hadzor, of the 'old' Anglo-Normans. 

Godfrey and Elizabeth were to have four children, amongst them, Maria West, the mother of Harriett Wombwell, and x2 great-grandmother of Hetty Jane Owen.