Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Webb was born in 1815, in Allington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, his father, Robert Webb, was 54 and his mother, Mary Fowler, was 23. He died in 1835, in his hometown, at the age of 20, and was buried in Allington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom.
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Sources (6)
- Thomas Webb, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Thomas Webb, "England, Dorset, Parish Registers, 1538-2001"
- Legacy NFS Source: Thomas Webb - Church record: Baptism record or certificate: birth-name: Thomas Webb
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World Events (4)
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
1830
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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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