Brief Life History of Richard
When Richard Webb was born on 11 March 1707, in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Peter Webb Sr., was 49 and his mother, Amee Hayden, was 34. He married Susanna Goff on 21 October 1731.
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- Richard Webb, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Richard Webb, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924"
- Richard Webb, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a weaver, from early Middle English webbe (Old English webba (masculine) or webbe (feminine), probably used of both male and female weavers). This word survived into Middle English long enough to give rise to the surname, but was already obsolescent as an agent noun; hence the secondary forms with the agent suffixes -er and -ster (see Webster , Webber and compare Weaver ).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames, cognates of 1, including Weber and Weberman.
History: Richard Webb, a Lowland Scot, was an admitted freeman of Boston in 1632, and in 1635 was one of the first settlers of Hartford, CT.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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