The Webb Wagg Family in Australia

Thank you to Maureen, my 3rd cousin 1 x removed, for her latest discovery which again shows the family links between the Webb Wagg's and Trickett's.  We first looked at this  in a blog back in early May.    Maureen is the granddaughter of Edward George Trickett and Sabina (Bina) McManus.  You may recall that Edward's mother, Jane Trickett (nee Hand) and Sarah Wagg (nee Hand) were sisters.  Here's a chart that shows all the Wagg (or Webb or Webb-Wagg) and Trickett cousins.   Wagg and Trickett cousins Edward George Trickett was born on 12 September 1867 at "Kerosine Works, Oyster Bay, North Sydney".  Edward's birthplace is now very familiar from looking at the births of William and Sarah Wagg's children.   On 13 January 1906, Edward married Sabina (Bina) McManus at Christ Church North Sydney.  Edward was a 39 year old carpenter and Sabina was a 39 year old spinster at the time of the marriage.  Sabina was born in 1867 to Bernard (Barney)

Adelaide Wagg was the fourth child of William and Sarah Wagg.  There's a possibility that Adelaide was named after one of Bill's sisters who was still living in Norfolk, England...more research required! On 07 October 1860, Adelaide was born at Greenwich.  Adelaide's birth was registered by Sarah.  This is the first evidence that Sarah was not able to write as her signature is marked as "X".  The registration shows the father as William Wagg, ballast man from Yarmouth, and the mother as Sarah Turner, aged 28 from Sydney.  Interestingly, the registration shows "Mrs Trickett" was present at the birth - this is probably Jane Trickett (nee Turner), Sarah's sister. William and Sarah and their three girls, Sarah Jane, Mary Ann and  Adelaide, appear to have lived in the same area of the lower North Shore of Sydney during this time. On 18 May 1861, Adelaide died from convulsions which she had suffered for 2 days.  Adelaide was just over 7 month

Mary Ann Wagg was the third child of William and Sarah Wagg.  Mary was certainly named after her maternal grandmother, Mary Ann Turner (nee Hand)  and, if our current research is accurate, her paternal grandmother, Mary Ann (Ann) Wagg (nee Clark), as well! On 22 August 1858, Mary Ann was born at "Sugar Works, North Shore, District of St Leonards".  Mary Ann's birth was registered by Sarah of "Sugar Works" and shows the father as William Wagg, labourer, aged 29 from Yarmouth England and the mother as Sarah Turner, aged 24 from Sydney.   Plan of the Sugar Works Estate (part of the Crows Nest Estate) situated at the North Shore near Sydney - The property of R. M. Robey Esq. Robey's Sugar Works first opened in 1857 on a land situated on the current Wollstonecraft Bay.  It was taken over by the Colonial Sugar Refinery Co.  In the late 1860s, the Australian Mineral Oil Co. established a kerosene works on the site to treat kerosene shale and handle impo

Sarah Jane Wagg was second child of William and Sarah Wagg - named after her mother (Sarah) and her maternal aunt (Jane).  A transcript of Sarah's birth registration shows she was born on 11 July 1856 at Botany Road, Redfern - just over 6 months after the death of her brother, William George.  Her father, William Wagg, a drayman, aged 28 from the West of England is the informant.  Sarah Turner, aged 23 and born in Sydney is shown as Sarah Jane's mother.  The date and place of William and Sarah's marriage is recorded as 18 April 1853 at St James Church, Sydney.  The transcript also show the previous issue as "1 boy deceased". By the mid 1860s, the Wagg family has moved to the Blues Point area on the North Shore of Sydney Harbour. In 1883, Sarah Jane, aged 27, married James Judkins Gillett, aged 35.  The marriage is registered at St Leonards.  James Judkins was born in about January 1848 in Islington, England.  He was the second child and older son of the s