The Webb Wagg Family in Australia

A few days ago, I was listening to "Conversations with Richard Fidler" on Local ABC radio and I was back with our family!  Richard's interview with John Durroch was "The Story of Sydney's ferries".   Press this link to hear the episode. The conversation about early ferry travel in Sydney was fascinating.  Two of the sons of William and Sarah Webb Wagg worked for Sydney Ferries, Charles (1862 to 1932) and William John (1873 to 1933).   Captain Charles Webb-Wagg Photo kindly shared by Therese, his great-granddaughter Charles was the fifth child of William and Sarah.   Charles worked for Sydney Ferries all his working life ending his career around the age of 70 as a master of the vehicular ferry service between Dawes Port and Blue's Point.  The service was discontinued when the Harbour Bridge opened in 1932.     Press this link to read the earlier post about Charles and his family. Captain Charles Webb-Wagg's Sydney Ferry hat pin ...

For many of the Webb Wagg "cousins", every 19 March brings special thoughts back to us of our cherished "Ma Webb" for she was born on St Joseph's Day in 1878 - 140 years ago today.  Ma was named Josephine, of course, because she came from a family with a strong Irish background.  I'm sure she would have been called Patricia of she was born two days earlier! To recap an earlier blog.... We were so fortunate to have Ma with us until her death on Anzac Day 1974, aged 96.  Ma was very proud of her Irish Catholic heritage but both of her parents were born in Australia.   John Clancy, her father, was born on 24 January 1845 at Camden - the fifth of the ten children of John Clancy (1811 to 1858) and Mary Casey (1814 to 1905).  John and Mary married on 29 December 1836 in County Cork, Ireland and arrived in Australia on 16 October 1838. John Clancy Catherine Mary Teresa (Kate) Flaven, her mother, was born on 28 September 1846 at Princes Street, The ...