When George Webb was born in 1790, in Harrietsham, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Webb, was 28 and his mother, Mary Whittington, was 30. He married Mary Murton on 29 April 1817, in Kent, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Hartlip, Kent, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years.
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The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
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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.
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