When John Charles Bradford Webster was born on 9 January 1914, in Darlington, Durham, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard George Webster, was 37 and his mother, Betsy Allan Hutchinson, was 36. He married Jane Ellen Gladys "Nellie" Stevens in 1937, in Hartlepool, Durham, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in West Hartlepool, Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died on 16 November 1971, in Hartlepool, Durham, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 57.
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WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
English and Scottish: occupational name for a weaver, from Middle English webbester ‘weaver’ (Old English webbestre ‘female weaver’). By the time of surname formation, the gender distinction of the -stre suffix had almost completely disappeared. Compare Webb , Webber , and Weaver .
History: The name Webster was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One John Webster settled in Ipswich, MA, in 1635; another John Webster (died 1661), ancestor of the lexicographer Noah Webster, emigrated to Cambridge, MA, c. 1631 and later became one of the founders of the colony of CT, of which he was appointed governor in 1656. Daniel Webster (1782–1852), politician and orator, was born in Salisbury, NH, a descendant of Thomas Webster, a prominent 17th-century citizen of Ipswich, MA, whose family had settled there around 1635, while he was still a child.
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