When William Webber was born about 1801, in Clam Harbour, Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America, his father, Peter I Webber, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth R. Merryweather, was 24. He had at least 5 daughters with Abigail Laughlin. He lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1871. He died on 1 December 1887, in Oyster Pond, Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America, at the age of 87, and was buried in Jeddore, Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America.
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In 1820, Cape Breton Island rejoined Nova Scotia. It is located on the Northeastern part of Nova Scotia. Until then it had been owned by the French until 1763. Than was in British control and a separate colony in 1784.
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In 1848, Nova Scotia became the first self-governing colony in the British Empire.
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’.
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