Part 2: Where did the “Webb Wagg” name come from? One of the most persistent questions in the Webb Wagg family has always been this: where did the name “Webb Wagg” come from? Why does “Webb” sometimes appear as a surname, sometimes as a given name, and sometimes not at all? This post explains how that question was finally answered. Connecting through Ancestry In early 2017, while this investigation was underway, I connected on Ancestry with a third cousin descended from William Webb-Wagg (1873–1974), a son of William and Sarah. After corresponding online, we arranged to meet in person. At that meeting, she shared two original documents that had been carefully preserved through successive generations of what I now think of as “the Williams” — the repeated use of William reflecting the continuity of the family line. I was able to examine both documents firsthand. While they do not answer every question about William’s origins, they provide something equally important: direct evidence sho...
