Barend van West, a son of Salomon van West (1856) and Betje Lelie (1853), was born in Amsterdam on 26 August 1881. He married in Weesp Betje Lelie on 25 October 1906, who was born on 20 June 1879 in Amsterdam as a daughter of Levie Salomon Lelie and Sara Fles. The couple had four children, viz. Salomon in 1907, Selma in 1910, who however died already in 1912, Selma Lea in 1913 and Vogelina in 1914…