When William Wedge was born on 4 November 1851, in Wombourne, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Wedge, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Jones, was 20. He married Mary Ann Screen on 2 July 1877, in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Donington, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Shifnal, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom in 1901. He died in 1922, in Tong, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 71.
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English: from Middle English weğğe ‘wedge, nail, coin’ in some undetermined sense, perhaps also used as a personal name. Some early spellings may represent Wagg and its Norfolk variant Wegg, because -gg- in Middle English can be ambiguous between the hard /g/ and soft /dʒ/ pronunciations.
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