When Ann Webber was christened on 28 April 1771, in Misterton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, her father, Humphrey Webber Jr, was 26 and her mother, Betty Rose, was 25.
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"On April 18, 1775, a shot known as the ""shot heard around the world"" was fired between American colonists and British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. This began the American War for Independence. Fifteen months later, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783 which ended the war. The colonies were no longer under British rule. Many who fought for the British fled to Canada, the West Indies, and some to England."
The first fleet of convicts sailed from England to Australia on May 13, 1787. By 1868, over 150,000 felons had been exiled to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and Western Australia.
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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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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