The Webb Wagg Family in Australia

MyHeritage is a subscription sites for family history enthusiasts.  They've introduced a new facility to colour photos.  I've been giving it quite a work out! "Ma and Pa Webb" with Jack Lutge Hayden and Josephine - my great-grandparents Mum always told me that the red hair came from Pa Webb! Pa Webb's parents - William Webb Wagg and Sarah Turner Certainly some red hair there... A touch of colour added to one of my all time favourite photos! That WW family gathering with Sarah in the front row!

William John Webb-Wagg (1873 to 1933) We're looking for cousins in this line who'd be prepared to take an AncestryDNA test?  If you're interested please contact me at chrisw9953@gmail.com. Many of the Webb-Wagg cousins have taken DNA tests that prove our genetic link back to William Webb-Wagg and Sarah Turner.  Linda, a descendant of their son, William, has taken an AncestryDNA test.  William married Ethel Swanson in 1895 in Sydney.  Linda's keen to work with other descendants of William and Ethel to see if genetic genealogy throws any light on Ethel's parents - Swan Swanson and Susan Kelly.   I t's been hard to locate Swan (or Sven) and Susan's families in Sweden and Ireland, respectively.  Swan possibly arrived in Sydney as a seaman in 1871, the year before his marriage to Susan.  But little more is know about either of them apart from their marriage on 8 January 1872 at St Patricks Church Hill, Sydney and the birth of their two daughters - Ethel i