When John Webb was born in 1734, in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, George Webb, was 31 and his mother, Jerusha Wickham, was 29. He died on 2 February 1737, in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 3, and was buried in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America.
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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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