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Hi All, looking for birth of John West-Sooby he died in Australia in 1963

It would help those able to do this research if you indicated where in Australia he died, how old he was and where you think he may have been born.

How old was he when he died?

Have you tried looking anywhere?

He married in 1959 in Western Australia..........place name SWAN

NO other info about the name on FMP

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His Australian death certificate would give you a lot more information than an English one.

from ancestry

Name: John West-Rooby
Death Date: 17 Jul 1963
Cemetery: Rookwood General Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Rookwood, Cumberland Council, New South Wales, Australia
Has Bio?: N
URL:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189859353/john-west-rooby
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John West-Rooby
Birth unknown
Death 17 Jul 1963
Burial
Rookwood General Cemetery
Rookwood, Cumberland Council, New South Wales, Australia
Plot Zone E Section 19 Grave 3700
Memorial ID 189859353 · View Source

Try Googling his name. You will find someone of the same name John West-Sooby in Adelaide.
With those names one assumes they are related - maybe worth getting in touch.

https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/lifelink/familyhistory/search/result?4

Deaths Search Results - registration appears to show in 1964


Name..Registration .....Number....Father's Given Name(s)..Mother's Given Name(s)...District

WEST-SOOBY JOHN 12650/1964 ROBERT........................MARY...........................MACLEAN

may be connected

Mary Elizabeth
District Petrie
Last name West-Sooby
Sub-district Redcliffe
Sex Female
Number 10130
Birth year -
State Queensland
Year 1959
Country Australia
Occupation Home duties
Page -
House name 15
Record set Australia Electoral Rolls
Street Cornelius Street
Category Census, land & surveys
Address 15 Cornelius Street Clontarf
Subcategory Electoral Rolls
Place Clontarf

Name: Mary Elizabeth West-Sooby
Gender: Female
Electoral Date: 1980
Electoral Place: Margate, Petrie, Queensland, Australia
MM

he was m in 1959 his wife may still be alive

West-Sooby
Mary Elizabeth
1900
1987
1987
Australia Billion Graves Cemetery Index
Kippa-Ring, Queensland, Australia

from family search.org

Ada Marye Somerset West-Sooby
Principal
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Birth 1933
Death 10 November 2018
Burial Stratton, Western Australia, Australia
Ronald West-Sooby
Principal
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Birth 6 August 1937
Death 5 March 1963
Burial Rookwood, New South Wales, Australia
Victor West-Sooby
Principal
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Death 8 March 1982
Burial 1982
Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Norma West Sooby
Principal
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Death 29 December 2003
Burial 2003
Rookwood, New South Wales, Australia
Mary Elizabeth West-Sooby
Principal
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Birth 23 February 1900
Death 31 December 1987
Burial Kippa Ring, Queensland, Australia
Thomas West-Sooby
Principal
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Birth 31 May 1939
Death 3 June 2018
Burial Kippa Ring, Queensland, Australia
Mary Elizabeth Davenport West-Sooby
Principal
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Birth 23 February 1900
Death 31 December 1987
Burial Kippa Ring, Queensland, Australia
Robert West-Sooby
Principal
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The West-Rooby Findagrave record posted by Maddie has a "gravesite detail" added to say he was 34 at death.


The same grave is recorded under the name Norton West-Rooby:

Norton West-Rooby
Birth unknown
Death 17 Jul 1963
Burial Rookwood General Cemetery
Rookwood, Cumberland Council, New South Wales, Australia
Plot Zone E Section 19 Grave 3700
Memorial ID 189888856 · View Source

Gravesite Details
Aged 34



Norton Wes-Sooby [ West-Sooby on image ]
in the Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980
Name: Norton Wes-Sooby
Gender: Male
Electoral Date: 1963
Electoral Place: Narrabeen, MacKellar, New South Wales, Australia

Living with Jean Iris West-Sooby.


A tree on Ancestry has him born 1930 - but no proof of birth date.

Parents:

robert west Sooby
1881–1943

mary elizabeth davenport
1900–1987

Married twice, but no dates or places of marriages given.
Barbara June Green, and Jean Iris Gimbert (1935–1984)

The tree lists three children with Jean. The first two have been kept private. The third has first name John, and , from Google searches, is a professor at Adelaide University.
That fits with Nameslessone's post at 11:30

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Name: Robert West-Sooby
Death Date: 1943
Cemetery: Tamworth General Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Tamworth, Tamworth Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia
Has Bio?: N
URL:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48578444/robert-west-sooby

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Name: Robert West
Marriage Date: 1928
Marriage Place: Wilcannia, New South Wales
Registration Date: 1928
Registration Place: Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia
Spouse: Mary E Davenport
Registration Number: 6960

In fact, Norton is on several Ancestry trees. None of them know where or exactly when he was born.

Various years of birth given - 1930, 1928, 1927.
One says "drowned at Yamba".

One tree says his father Robert was born Sooby.

"Adopted the name West
abt 1900
Sooby ‘apprenticed’ his son to West Bros Circus conducted by an Englishman Adam West. From the Wests, the young Bob learned everything about circus and became a ‘fairly good rider’. Just as Billy Jones had adopted his mentor’s surname, so Bob adopted the . . . . "

Re Norton's father Robert:

Robert Sooby
in the New South Wales, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1854-1930
Name: Robert Sooby [Bob West]
Birth Year: abt 1884
Age: 38
Event Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Event Type: Other
Publication Date: 8 Nov 1922
Page #: 612


SYDNEY - A commitment warrant for £94 15s and 8s costs in default imprisonment until the order be complied with, has been issued by the Children's Court Bench against Robert Sooby for disobeying a magisterial order for the support of his wife. He is 38 years of age, 5ft 10 inches high, thick-set build, dark complexion, dark hair turning grey, brown eyes, clean shaved: a circus performer. May assume the name of Bob West.

froma tree on ancestry but no proof of birth

Robert West-Sooby
1881–1943

Birth 1881 • Maitland NSW Australia

Death 26 MAY 1943 • Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia

Birth
1881 • Maitland NSW Australia

190019
Adopted the name West
abt 1900

Sooby ‘apprenticed’ his son to West Bros Circus conducted by an Englishman Adam West. From the Wests, the young Bob learned everything about circus and became a ‘fairly good rider’. Just as Billy Jones had adopted his mentor’s surname, so Bob adopted the

190120
Birth of half-sister Caroline Sooby(1901–)
1901

190322
Marriage
1903 • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

registration number #564/1903
Lucinda E "Lucy" O'Neil

(1885–)

192342
Divorce
1923
Lucinda E "Lucy" O'Neil

(1885–)

192847
Marriage
1928 • Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia

registration number #6960/1928
Mary Elizabeth Davenport

(–1988)

193049
Birth of son Norton West-Sooby(1930–1964)
Abt. 1930

193150
Birth of son Victor West-Sooby(1931–1982)
abt 1931

193958
Birth of son Thomas West-Sooby(1939–2018)
31 May 1939

194362
Death
26 May 1943 • Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia
Burial
Tamworth, Tamworth Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia

Surname FirstName District Number Sex Year SpSurname SpFirstName
West-Sooby John Swan 75 M 1959 Webb Ada Marye Somerset

His marriage and wife's name.

Police said the missing
men are Norton West-Sooby,
34, of The Crescent. Narra
been, his twin'brother,. John*
and younger brother, Daniel,
18, both of McKillop Road,
Mona Vale, and William
Metcalfe, 36, of Manly.


Fishing Party Still Missing
Article - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995)Tuesday 9 July 1963 - Page 1

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/109896887?searchTerm=%22west%20soobie%22

Seems the 4 men drowned on a fishing trip.

SOOBY v SOOBY.
Lucinda Ethel Sooby (formerly O'Neil) pe-
titioned for divorce from Robert West Sooby,
on the ground of desertion. The parties were
married at St. Paul's Church, Sydney, accord-
ing to the rites of the Church of England, on
February 25, 1903. A decree nisi, returnable
in six months, was granted. Mr. E. E. J.
Ford appeared for the petitioner.

The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)
Tue 4 Mar 1924 Page 6