Brief Life History of Amos
When Amos Webb was born in March 1843, in Litlington, Cambridgeshire, England, his father, Edward Webb, was 34 and his mother, Elisabeth Desborough, was 35.
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- Amos Webb in household of Edward Webb, "England and Wales Census, 1851"
- Amos Webb, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- Amos Webb, "England and Wales Census, 1861"
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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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