Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Webb was born on 10 May 1759, in Coaley, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Webb, was 34 and her mother, Elizabeth Gunter, was 27. She married John W. Ricketts on 6 December 1777, in Coaley, Gloucestershire, England. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1829, at the age of 70.
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- Mary Webb, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Mary Webb, "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
- Mary in entry for George Ricketts, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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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