When John William Webber was born about 1880, in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Webber, was 25 and his mother, Sarah Rosina Davies, was 27. He married Martha Astle on 5 September 1917, in Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Stapleton, Bristol, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Northwick, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died on 10 August 1950, in Brakpan, Transvaal, South Africa, at the age of 71.
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British defeat the Zulus in Natal. British and colonial forces destroy Zulu army at Isandhlwana. Griqualand East annexed to Cape Colony.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
British troops gather on the Transvaal border and ignore an ultimatum to disperse. The second Anglo-Boer War begins.
English (Devon and Somerset): occupational name for a weaver, from Middle English webber, an agent derivative of Webb .
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Weber ‘weaver’.
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