When John Webster was born on 17 October 1830, in Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Webster, was 38 and his mother, Isabella Duncan, was 26. He married Mary Ann Wright on 15 July 1858, in Genesee, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870 and Bluffdale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. In 1900, at the age of 70, his occupation is listed as blacksmith in Bluffdale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He died on 30 December 1913, in Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Taylorsville Memorial Park Cemetery, Taylorsville, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin - Sept 3, 1836 Treaty Treaty of the Cedars was concluded on the Fox River on September 3, 1836. The Menominee Nation ceded nearly 4 million acres of land for the following items every year for twenty years: $3,000 worth of food provisions, 2,000 lbs. of tobacco, 30 barrels of salt, agricultural supplies, and $500 per year. (Wisconsin Historical Society)
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Being one of the two smallest railways in 1923, the Great North of Scotland Railway carried its first passengers from Kittybrewster to Huntly in 1854. In the 1880s the railways were refurbished to give express services to the suburban parts in Aberdeen. There were junctions with the Highland Railway established to help connect Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray counties. The railway started to deliver goods from the North Sean and from the whisky distilleries in Speyside. With the implementation of bus services and the purchase of the British Railway the Great North of Scotland Railway was discontinued.
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesBiography of John George Wright John George Wright, the fifth child of William and Charlotte Rouse Wright, was born 11th Oct. 1843, at Pointon, Lincolnshire, England. He was about medium height and we …
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