The Webb Wagg Family in Australia

Over the next few months, we'll be looking at the eleven children of William (Bill) and Sarah Wagg. William George Wagg was their first born child - named after his father and paternal grandfather (William) and maternal grandfather (George).  A transcript of William's baptism record shows he was born on 17 May 1854 to William Wagg, a mariner, and Sarah.  Their residence is recorded as "Kissing Point" which is now the suburb of Putney.   On 03 September 1854, William was baptised by  Reverend William Cowper  at St Philips Church of England which stood on the current site of Lang Park in York Street, Sydney. On 31 December 1855, aged 18 months, William died.  The burial registration records William's occupation as "son of a sailor" of Queens Place - where the statue of Queen Victoria currently stands off Macquarie Street, Sydney.   William was buried on 02 January 1856 in the Church of England Cemetery Camperdown by  Reverend Charle...

In our last post, we saw the home where our matriarch, Sarah Wagg (nee Turner), died in 1918.  Dale, a granddaughter of William John Neely (1898 to 1947), recalls that 247 West Street, North Sydney was the address William used on his First World War discharge papers stating it was the home of his uncle (and Sarah's son), William John (Bill) Webb-Wagg (1873 to 1933). So Sarah was living with her son Bill, his wife Ethel (nee Swanson) and their six children - Les, Bill, Em, Christopher, Charlie and Ali - at the time of her death.   We've seen a number of precious documents that have passed through the family of Bill Webb-Wagg.  This adds to the story of how they survived for over 150 years! William Neely was the oldest of the four children of Arthur John Burns (Top) Neely and Minnie Daisy Webb Wagg (the youngest of William and Sarah's children).  Minnie died on 08 July 1911 and Top Neely was still living at the family home in Willoughby at the end of the First...